Microsoft Project Premonition uses mosquitoes, cloud computing to prevent health disasters

Grazed from TheWindowsClub.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft Research’s Project Premonition seeks to detect pathogens in animals before these pathogens make people sick. Project Premonition sounds nothing less than a blockbuster movie. It involves mosquitoes caught in the robotic traps, drones, the cutting-edge molecular biology and the advanced cloud-based data analysis.

Catching mosquitoes and training drones

Microsoft Research and Saint George’s University of Grenada have partnered to catch mosquitoes using drones and then analyzes their body contents for pathogens. By analyzing mosquitoes, early signs that can spread potentially harmful diseases can be detected…


    Project Premonition, a system that aims to detect infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread, with the goal of preventing major health disasters.  The initial work including feasibility study done by researchers was presented publicly recently at TechFair, a Microsoft innovation showcase in Washington, DC…

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