Drone-aided
medical operations

The main objetive of DALi Lab is to provide guidance on how to develop living labs for drone-aided medical services by integrating drones on medical operations. This will be achieved designing an action plan to set up a living lab during the project, including testing and validation of drone solutions (real flights and simulations) for medical services for a specific use case.

Objectives

Expected results:

  • R1.1 Comprehensive evaluation of the feasibility, sustainability, economic viability, and societal and political implications of deploying drones in the medical sector.
  • R1.2 A governance model defined for a drone-aided healthcare living lab.
  • R1.3 Establishment of a clear strategic objectives for the drone-aided medical living lab.
  • R1.4 Development of a robust and adaptable design methodology for the creation of living labs tailored specifically for drone commercial applications.
  • R1.5 An action plan to set up the living lab and a strategy for long-term implementation.
  • R1.6 Deployment of the engagement and governance structure of the living lab in relevant scenario (A Coruña).

Expected results:

  • R2.1 Accelerate medical market uptake.
  • R2.2 Validate a multisector technical framework drone-aided medical solutions within the living-lab boundaries.
  • R2.3 Design a tailored Risk Assessment framework specific to drone-aided living labs.
  • R2.4 Demonstrate the use case.
  • R2.5 Develop a multisector technical framework to accelerate the adoption of drone-aided medical solutions in the market.

Expected results:

  • R3.1 Increase knowledge on experimentation frameworks for testing innovations in living labs for drone-aided medical services.
  • R3.2 Support the evolution of U-space and UAM framework.

Expected results:

  • R4.1 Enhance knowledge sharing and development of best practices.
  • R4.2 A proper multisectoral awareness, engagement and co-design plan for mitigating risks and enabling the set up of drone-aided medical living labs.
  • R4.3 Guidelines with valuable insights and recommendations for  ractitioners and stakeholders involved in drone-aided medical  applications.
  • R4.4 Recommendations and best practices to decision-makers and stakeholders on facilitating the adoption of drone technologies in the medical sector.
  • R4.5 Dissemination plan adapted to different actors.
  • R4.6 Communication plan adapted to different actors.

Expected results:

  • R5.1 Exploitation strategy plan

Partners

Methodology

MethodologyDALi Lab aims at achieving the objectives presented by a three-steps methodology.

Identification of the requirements from governance and technical point of view.

The main goal will be anticipating future trends and conditions to be considered by any innovator player, that would be complemented by the current and potentially continuing conditions. This aspect is essential to guarantee the potential future exploitation of the results in the market and getting a relevant impact on the society.

Design of a living lab methodology

A living lab methodology will be designed taking into account the discovered requirements.

The methodology will include:

  • The process for collecting those requirements.
  • The definition of strategic objectives, principles, governance and even management models.
  • Other technical aspects.

A demo case for the medical logistics supported by drones will be  implemented under this step so the designed methodology can be tested and validated, being needed for it to define specific methodology for Risk Assessment, test monitoring and market assessment, to verify how the minimum viable product under testing is perceived by the final user, as the most relevant component of a living lab.

Collection of all the learnings generated

The final phase will be devoted to collect all the learnings generated during the previous step on a two-fold approach: the dynamization of innovation ecosystems from a multilevel point of view as a key condition to create and consolidate specialised experimentation practices and facilities, and the design and implementation of the concrete scheme of living lab.

New practitioners will be targeted with a guidance to be supported in replication, and policy makers will be addressed with best practices and recommendations.

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