Full speed ahead for med4PAN: TH Deggendorf launches 5G project

Written by Vito Klughammer on 04.10.2022

Provision of a defibrillator using a drone, monitoring and care of chronic wounds using VR and AR glasses, tracking of medical devices, education and training of medical staff using VR and AR glasses, transmission of medical data from an ambulance and transmission of histopathological sections during operations. These use cases are expected to benefit from the 5G mobile communications standard. With med4PAN, the Deggendorf Institute of Technology is working with its cooperation partners to develop solutions that will benefit patients in the rural area of Rottal-Inn. After the project was officially approved by the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport and thus began on Nov. 18, 2021, a lot has happened in the meantime. Specialists for the implementation have been sought and found, which is why we were fortunately able to recruit six colleagues in the areas of drone technology, AR/VR/MR, medicine and project management for this as early as April and June. Finally, we are pleased to welcome another colleague in the field of software development in October. The med4PAN team is extremely international, young and ambitious as well as experienced. In the meantime, the entire team is working at full speed to achieve the goals we have set. Time schedules have been concretized, equipment and materials have been procured, and initial trials have been conducted. We are also pleased to welcome Smart Mobile Labs AG as our partner in the provision and construction of the 5G hardware as the winner of the tender. Only until the three 5G campus networks are fully operational can the use cases be tested for their benefits. Until then, the setup in all use cases will be prepared to such an extent that it can start directly as soon as the 5G network is available.