I was joking that I'm gonna I'm gonna set up a Twitch account.
We want to be able to guarantee that any human being can
receive a critical medical product in 15 minutes or less
either directly to their home or to the nearest primary care
facility that they live next to and our goal is to extend that
kind of a service to
every human on earth over the next decade.
Where can I zip line one thing that really motivates me or
pushes me to wake up every day and show up my best as when I
think about the kind of impact that we are having the lives of
individuals.
So providing these essential services that deliver
critical vaccines medicines and blood units where drones on
demand to people in rural and remote areas
the diseases that we're treating their basically
postpartum.
Merging and malaria anemia, which is really all about
saving newborns and their mothers their run a government
has done a great job of improving those outcomes as
we've gotten involved
30% of the deliveries that zip line does our life-saving
emergency delivery is where that product does not exist at
the
hospital.
That's really what what gets us up in the morning.
A lot of people look at zip on anything.
Wow, that's so cool.
You know they focus on the airplane.
The reality is we've had to build all of these
interconnected systems and they're all generating huge
amounts of data.
Our responsibilities and the way that we're really making
sure that zip line is successful is to make sure
that Ziplines a data driven company the data team that zip
line that we started building in 2016 when we began
operating has scaled up
by an order of magnitude and we've been able to basically
build the eyes and ears for all of the engineering
operations functions a
zipline.
I work with two main sources of data, which is fulfillment data
and slight Sita
fulfillment and zip line is really anything that comes
before we fly the drones to the health facilities
the drones the
battery chargers the device that launches the Drone
and the device that captures the Drone all of those log
time series data, whenever they are
active putting data in engineer's hands is really
important to be able to
give them the confidence that they're shipping Reliable
Hardware hard Reliable Software.
What we do is we actually collect data from Recently one
of our flights and this data then gets like logged and then
uploaded into the cloud and halfway across the world as an
engineer.
We can actually download that data look through it and
pinpoint exactly what kind of failures that are.
The battery is actually are one of the most critical pieces
because when we take a battery out, we don't just need to
transfer data.
We also have to
charge them.
We have a simulation tool that simulates
the the processes that go on in our distribution center.
Her and we use that to calculate like how many drones
do we need
to to deliver x amount of products every day.
One of the inputs to that simulation program is actually
how long it takes to charge a battery.
You've collected data from thousands of flights and
figure it out.
Okay at this point in time, there was this much battery
left and in these kinds of conditions
so all of these systems talking to one another all these
systems are producing data and our ability to analyze it and
then act upon it.
Is
quite literally a matter of life and death for the
patients that we serve.
Every single person zip line is responsible for making real
world decisions because that's the DNA of our company.
So the way the team is used a tobruk so far is it's
basically just like the way for every single person to
quickly see what is happening in the real world with regard
to the system that they own or accountable for
databases like
an incredibly powerful tool.
We have like a notebook that has 20 plots and it'll just
like plot every single aspect of the flight like the GPS the
battery health things like that.
We like plotting all of the data that we have gathered
during a flights
and making sure that that's like really quickly available
to an engineer and they only need to change the ID of the
flights and they have that
information.
Everyone can have an accountant data bricks and we're able to
build not only kind of tools and
utilities to access this data,
but also
reference templates and reference tutorials to be able
to learn how to use those tools
clone those notebooks and immediately, you know query
and access the data that they need build visualizations.
All these kinds
of things which allows me to create photometer dashboards
for my customers to consume to just keeping them up to date on
what the inventory is at the pine how much we have consumed
what for how many Health Facilities we are seven and
which ones are placing most orders and things like that
just kind of gives like my customers visibility on their
operations and also informs
their decisions as to next steps
suddenly contactless delivery.
Like a national Focus for every country on Earth and all these
health systems are having to reconfigure the way they're
having to transform how they deliver health care and they
all want to like extend their reach directly into the home.
And this is basically what zipline does I mean, we
basically build a Stargate for every single Hospital in health
facilities so that they can
teleport care directly to where it needs to go.
Yeah.
I'm super excited for a zip line to expand all over the
world
including the US
and to bring delivery to
people's homes.
And just increase the access of healthcare around the world.