The project “Real-time Analytics and Prognostic Health Monitoring” (RTAPHM) is a joint project within the framework of the German Federal Aviation Research Programme (LuFo V-3). Linova works together with other industrial partners, research institutes and universities on the realisation of a digital platform for the provision of novel services in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The project is based on a visionary application case, targeting the UAV-supported transport of transplantable organs directly between hospitals. Organs are currently transported throughout Europe from donor to recipient via a chain of various transport modalities, both over land and/or in the air. This requires a huge logistical effort and high costs for the different transport routes.

In future, organs could be transported directly between hospitals by air alone using autonomous/semi-autonomous drones. Such a scenario requires much less logistical effort, lowers costs and opens up new possibilities for quality assurance through telemetry data during flight (e.g. temperature). The project focuses on the automation processes of a digital platform: automatic provision of resilient diagnostic and forecasting information of the resources, development of a cloud-based infrastructure and software architecture based on it, design and implementation of applications/access points for employers/end customers as well as platform operators.