{"id":24030,"date":"2020-04-23T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24030"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:24:43","slug":"well-be-monitoring-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24030","title":{"rendered":"WE\u2019LL BE MONITORING YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Westport, Conn., will test a \u201cpandemic drone\u201d they say is capable of monitoring residents\u2019 temperatures from nearly 200 feet as well as detecting coughing and sneezing.<\/p>\n<p>The police department said\u00a0it&#8217;s testing the technology in cooperation with drone manufacturer Draganfly.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the drone will feature sensors that can detect fever temperatures and heart rates as well as sneezing and coughing in crowds,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/asssrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgshldlt_qpmmggswstmghpfpdghs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/asssrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgshldlt_qpmmggswstmghpfpdghs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587766742100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGH1PefsshYG9xY1pae9zfL_FcnJA\">according to a local NBC affiliate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the major problems for cities and towns like Westport in managing and responding to a pandemic like the COVID-19 virus, is finding out who could be infected and how widespread the disease has spread,\u201d Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne way to do this is to look for underlying symptoms. By teaming up with Draganfly and the UniSA team led by Defense Chair of Sensor Systems Professor Javaan Chahl, we are able to remotely look at valuable lifesaving data and better manage current and future health emergencies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement that the technology will not be used on private land and that the drones are not equipped with facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing drones remains a go-to technology for reaching remote areas with little to no manpower required. Because of this technology, our officers will have the information and quality data they need to make the best decision in any given situation,\u201d Westport Police Chief Foti Koskinas said in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Westport, Conn., will test&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24031,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions\/24031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}