MICROSOFT DRONES :TO CATCH MOSQUITOES

Trap will always be a trap.

This time Microsoft have build a trap for mosquitoes.

Microsoft have now found a new potential use of drones.

We might have never thought of using drones in preventing spread of diseases.

 To prevent epidemics, American tech company Microsoft is developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs of potentially harmful viruses being spread by them.

Microsoft has just launched an initiative called project PREMONITION with the aim of detecting viruses before they infect a significant number of people using a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or UAVs)

To do this company will send an army of drones which will zoom wildlife and then trap mosquitoes.then the drones will bring trapped mosquitoes back to the laboratory, where  scientist can check their blood samples or any other sample for pathogens in or around the body. Thanks to the latest advancements in molecular biology and genetic sequencing, samples can be processed faster and more cheaply than ever - they can even spot viruses that haven't been classified yet.

Right now, scientists attempt to do this by using traps hung from trees that must be collected by hand. But Microsoft's new plan could greatly speed up this process and make it a lot cheaper, by sending out portable drones that are able to cover far more distance and come back to base with bigger samples.

It is rightly said that PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.

Team Microsoft is rightly following this..

Getting an early warning against a epidemic would be much

 better, and with natures drones you can collect the

 necessary information and prepare yourself for prevention. "The ability to predict an epidemic would be 

huge," Douglas Norris, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland,told linn

 Their was always a need of an updated mosquito trap,infact many of nets that Norris has used to study mosquitoes haven't had design changes since the 1960s or even the 1950s. Old traps need expensive batteries that need changing a few times a year. In fact, some of the chemicals used are so dangerous that airplane safety regulations ban them from flights..

The older traps use to collect many other bugs aside mosquitoes, so the researchers have to pluck these mosquitoes out which actual eats time.

Researchers have developed a new mosquito trap that uses less energy and relies on lighter weight batteries. It also has a new bait system for luring mosquitoes, a sensor that automatically sorts the mosquitoes from the other bugs and chemicals that can preserve the mosquitoes for lab study.

Drones will fly in a semi-autonomous way as well as being directed by human pilot. All that extra functionality requires more research and programming of course, but the Project Premonition team is optimistic about its chances.

With this project we hope to spot danger early and save lives.