San Raffaele is a Scientific Hospitalization and Treatment Institute and a highly specialized and internationally recognized university polyclinic, founded in 1971 to provide specialized care and contribute to the development of new therapies for many pathologies. The medical-scientific excellence of the San Raffaele Hospital stems from the triple identity of the institute, a place where research, clinic and university training interact on a daily basis. Ospedale San Raffaele is responsible for demonstrators 5 and 9.
Description
This demonstrator aims to include UAM traffic in critical infrastructure for security and maintenance, providing video shots in support of surveillance and technical services located at the hospital. Starting from the vertiport, drones autonomously monitor the secure area and are operated by exception by mandated security (or by the maintenance) officers to monitor the critical areas, with due respect for the privacy of the users of the area and in compliance with the GDPR. The principle of ‘break the glass’ is applicable, which means the algorithm only interacts in case of breach of security or safety regulations and procedures.
Background
A major hospital is a critical infrastructure by itself, whose business continuity is not only depending on the specific infrastructure and related technological systems that directly support healthcare processes but also heavily depends on availability and reliability of other underpinning critical infrastructures such as Energy, Information Technology facilities onsite and in cloud, wired and wireless communication infrastructures (from LAN to Wi-Fi and 5G antennas and base stations), logistic and inbound mobility, etc. In such a reality, surveillance and technical services are not trivial, especially since the hospital covers a very large area (312,000 square meters) which includes multi-storey buildings (7-8 floors dedicated to hospital wards, research laboratories and university classrooms), parking lots, a cogeneration plant (electricity, hot and cold water) and large open spaces where thousands of people transit every day (for professional reasons, access to health services and visits to patients - 25,000 every day, about 6,000,000 a year). Moving from different places takes time to the security staff and also some installations are not easy to reach, as an example building roof where usually air conditioning equipment is installed. Most common technical infrastructure present at San Raffaele Hospital are the following:
Results
Description
The aim of this demonstrator is to develop new UAM traffic with an emergency system that provides a safe and secure utilization of the air space, providing delivery of medication or biological samples. Starting from the vertiport, drones reach the hospital buildings just a few hundred meters away. Through the windows of the buildings, they can interact with hospital wards where patients are hospitalized and where the drug logistics arrive to the patient’s bed. Using an app and a web interface, the medical staff can interact with the control unit at the vertiport, indicating when a drone transport is needed. At this point, drones will be flown to connect the specific ward with the laboratories where in vitro analyses are made and/or to deliver medication or biological samples towards the users of San Raffaele Hospital. Based on the results and needs we can upscale the payload of drones.
Background
The presence of many hospital departments in such a large area requires significant improvement of the logistics performances within the hospital ecosystem above all for the delivery of high-value healthcare process assets.
Results