First aid drone for outdoor sports activities

Bravo, Gustavo Cedeno; Parra, Diego Marcillo; Mendes, Luis; Pereira, Antonio Manuel de Jesus

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Authors

Bravo, Gustavo Cedeno

Parra, Diego Marcillo

Mendes, Luis

Pereira, Antonio Manuel de Jesus

Abstract(s)

Practicing sports in the outdoors as a way to reduce stress levels, improve health; and even as an incentive to improve social relations, has encouraged more and more people to leave the sedentary lifestyle to perform activities like walking, jogging, hiking, biking, among others. This trend to practice outdoor sport activities was also driven by new technological gadgets (e.g., smartphone whit special apps, fitness trackers and smartwatches) since they allow tracking all the workout values (e.g., pace, speed, distance, duration), vita parameters and signals (e.g., heart rate, temperature and calories burned) and also the exercise route (e.g., geographic coordinates). During outdoors sports activities, independently if these are amateur or professional, the sportsman can suffer accidents, which can result in body injuries, or an unexpected health problem (e.g., heart attack, heatstroke and dehydration) that can limit its mobility or even its conscious state. When this happens, an emergency service should be activated. This is the more important the more remote is the site of the emergency. A solution envisaged to provide emergency care as soon as possible in cross-country sports competitions, even when the land topography is very rough, is proposed in this paper. The base idea is to use a drone that carries a first aid kit (bandages, alcohol, cotton, gauze, water, and other emergency and survival products) and has real-time audio and video communications capabilities.

Keywords

Technology in sports activities Automated drones First aid

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13233

Citation

G. C. Bravo, D. M. Parra, L. Mendes and A. M. de Jesus Pereira, "First aid drone for outdoor sports activities," 2016 1st International ConfG. C. Bravo, D. M. Parra, L. Mendes and A. M. de Jesus Pereira, "First aid drone for outdoor sports activities," 2016 1st International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing (TISHW), Vila Real, Portugal, 2016, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/TISHW.2016.7847781erence on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing (TISHW), Vila Real, Portugal, 2016, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/TISHW.2016.7847781