Karachi: Fly Green, a Karachi-based start-up, has introduced a novel solution to help the city administration address issues pertaining to traffic jams, sewerage faults, and damaged footpaths – a news source reported.
It has invented a surveillance drone to identify problems, gather data, and transmit this information to the company’s control centre. This technological application is geared towards identifying issues that need to be fixed on a timely basis.
Users upload a map of a particular area to the device which then proceeds to conduct a survey, identify damages, and reports them to the control centre. Officials at the centre then assess the situation by analysing images captured by the surveillance system.
Abdul Basit Paracha, co-founder of Fly Green, says that the drone technology would prove to be of great help to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB), and other government departments.
The technology is also programmed to monitor trees planted on footpaths. On detecting any instances of environmental degradation, the drone will alert the control centre. It is also capable of identifying the differences between artificial and natural plants. Moreover, the Ministry of Climate Change can utilise the data to address other environmental concerns.
Earlier, the start-up was included in a list of 100 others presented at the third Momentum Tech Conference. Many tech entrepreneurs showcased their projects before venture capitalists, tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, and multinational firms such as McKinsey and International Business Machines Corporations (IBM).
The start-ups included ‘Aqua Agro’ and ‘Save Every Drop’. The team behind Aqua Agro has built a device which allows farmers to save up to 50% of irrigation water, and at the same time increase crop yields by 35%.
Similarly, Save Every Drop has introduced a water purification plant which is said to be 50% more economical and 20% more operational than a conventional plan. It has the capacity to purify 10 litres of water per minute.
