During Hajj, the speed of emergency response can be extremely important. When millions of pilgrims are spread across a large area, delivering medicine, medical equipment, or laboratory samples to a specific location can be difficult and time-consuming. New technologies are now helping shorten these distances.

Drones can be used to transport medicines and medical supplies quickly when needed, while electric emergency vehicles can move through crowded areas with greater flexibility. Together with ambulances and intelligent systems, these technologies can contribute to the development of a modern emergency-response network for pilgrims.

Perhaps in the future, when a pilgrim in a remote area urgently needs medicine, the first thing sent to them will not be a vehicle but a small medical drone. Hajj could become one of the world’s largest real-world testing grounds for emergency technologies designed to operate on a massive human scale.