Deltass

DELTASS

Number: ESA, ARTES 5 FB 10.1
Title: DELTASS (Disaster Emergency Logistic Telemedicine Advanced Satellites Systems)
Other Participants: National Centre for Space Studies, CNES (F); Institute for space-medicine and
physiology, MEDES (F); European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company,
EADS: EADS-MS&I (F); Alcatel Space Industries (F); SPACEBEL (B); EADS - Dornier Mobile Systems (MOSYS) (D);
Duration: 2001 - 2002

In case of disasters (earthquake, flooding, war, etc.) the terrestrial telecommunicational infrastructure is often mostly or complete out of service. In those cases satellite-based communication systems can be used easily, at all spots and cost-effective. In DELTASS a disaster scenario will be analysed and an appropriate telecommunication system for effective rescue measures for the victims will be set up and evaluated. Based on WoTeSa / WinVicos a satellite-based telecommunication system will be realised and optimised for the telemedical communication between a Mobile Field Hospital (MFH: at a place in or close to the disaster area, where the primary intake of victims is done) and a Reference Hospital (RH: OP 2000, Charité; at a place outside the disaster area, possibly abroad).

It is of utmost importance to make a quick and reliable decision on whether, and if so, to which hospital a victim / patient needs to be evacuated in order to get the best medical service with the shortest delay. By providing interactive telemedical communication tools of sufficient quality (in terms of image transmission) medical experts at the RH will be able to give optimal and maximal support in this process.
The communication between the MFH and the RH will have a bandwidth of up to 2 Mbit/s at the Ku-band of the W1-satellite (Eutelsat). On both sides a VSAT-terminal will be installed, exhibiting a 10 Mbit/s LAN-interface. Thus, a state-of-the-art network will be realised, with mesh-topology, especially suited for live multimodal transmission of, e.g., audio, video, medical data. Both in the MFH and in the RH WoTeSa / WinVicos will be used, as it combines the user-friendliness and flexibility of IP-based communication protocols with the security and sufficiently-high quality of the live transmission given the satellite bandwidth.

The complete DELTASS system has been presented in operation during a full-size demonstration in November 2002.

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