Kodrona instead of Corona
The German university city of Siegen and Deutsche Telekom want to make it possible to operate drone flights outside the pilot's visual range in the future. To this end, they have entered into a partnership to provide the necessary mobile communications infrastructure.
Telekom will thus become a partner in the ongoing research project Kodrona ("cooperative drone technology for medical applications"). The Bonn-based company is supplying a new type of campus network that enables the drones to be safely controlled remotely.
On an approximately 2.5 km long flight route, the drones convey medical laboratory samples from young patients directly to the central laboratory. This way, the test results reach the doctors much faster. Shipments are adapted to current requirements. At present, the laboratory samples are transported several times a day by taxi. (ah)