lifting up communities.
Project OMNI is a student-run nonprofit dedicated to using technology to improve education, healthcare, policy, and agriculture around the world.
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OMNI means all.
a global
approach.
Students in Project OMNI travel the world, presenting their ideas to politicians and leading workshops for local students. Past locations include Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina.​
disciplined.
interdisciplinary.
Students create BoMs, design and 3D print custom parts in CAD, and solder custom PCBs to modify drones based on specialized use cases; analyze UAV articles and schematics to determine feasibility of approaches in response to constraints like cost, weight, and power; and research relevant local laws and regulations to ensure compliance.
real people.
real research.
In addition to an international mission, Project OMNI students work on a capstone research paper. These papers are published internationally in places such as the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) with the goal of helping real politicians and educators, including the Paraguay Ministry of Education, Itaipu Binacional, and United Nations, make informed decisions regarding the integration of technology into new laws and curricula.
Medical Delivery.
Medical drones have been shown to arrive, on average, 7 minutes faster than traditional medical transport services.
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In one real-world example, a medical drone reached its destination in just 6 minutes over a 2-mile distance, while an EMT vehicle took 22 minutes to cover the same route.
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Every minute without medical intervention reduces a patient’s chance of survival by roughly 10%, making the faster arrival times of medical drones a potentially life-saving advantage.
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source: https://jheor.org/post/2611-rescue-from-above-how-drones-may-narrow-emergency-response-times
Search and Rescue.
Search and rescue teams with drones are 3.18 minutes faster than teams without at finding victims and survivors in experimental conditions.
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In real-life tests, teams with drones were 30 minutes faster, largely due to their advanced mapping technology and the ability to access perspectives that humans could not reach.
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TRUE STORY: A search and rescue drone equipped with an infrared camera was able to locate a missing 70-year-old man with dementia deep in the woods outside Seattle on a bitterly cold night, after the ground team had already walked past him earlier.
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Source: https://wms.org/magazine/magazine/1326/drone-use-in-sar/default.aspx