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Inspiration from Microsoft Premonition

A project log for Solar Scare Mosquito 2.0

An IoT device to monitor and prevent epidemics such as Malaria, Dengue and the Zika Virus.

pranavPranav 10/05/2020 at 13:090 Comments

Just a couple of days ago, Bill Gates revealed an ambitious technology called Microsoft Premonition: https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/microsoft-premonition/ 

"Today, more than ever, new global sensor networks are needed to protect our health, and the health of our economies and societies.

Microsoft Premonition is an advanced early warning system that combines robotic sensing platforms, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and cloud-scale metagenomics to autonomously monitor disease-carrying animals such as mosquitoes, robotically collect environmental samples, and then genomically scan them for biological threats.

Like weather prediction, its analytics pipelines uses cloud-scale computing, leveraging the latest advancements in Azure IoT and Azure Data Lake on Microsoft Azure. Today, Premonition’s pipelines have scanned more than 80 trillion base-pairs of genomic material from environmental samples for biological threats."

This is a highly advanced technology and encompasses all epidemics including the likes of COVID-19. 

We believe our low-cost environmental data capture solution can be complementary to such a platform being developed. Moreover, besides just monitoring the evolution of epidemics, our solution also prevents mosquito-breeding too.

That's two birds in one stone!

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