One of Aviant's founders, Lars Erik Fagernæs, calibrates the drone sensors earlier a trial flight. Credit: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
The region betwixt the Norwegian towns of Røros and Trondheim is astir 100 kilometers arsenic the crow flies. Three entrepreneurs from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)want to usage drones to transport aesculapian samples betwixt them.
Røros Hospital is simply a subdivision of St. Olavs Hospital successful Trondheim. The infirmary takes aesculapian samples each the time, but these often person to beryllium analyzed successful Trondheim.
Today, the transport of these aesculapian samples takes spot mostly by car. But this is simply a 150 kilometer agelong by road, and particularly successful wintertime the thought of different enactment is appealing for the transporters.
Entrepreneurs Herman Øie Kolden, Bernhard Paus Græsdal and Lars Erik Fagernæs are moving connected a solution.
"We're gathering thing that tin marque a difference, and that tin hopefully prevention lives and lend to society. It's truly rewarding and motivating," says Fagernæs.
The 3 entrepreneurs are nerds successful the champion consciousness of the word. They're civil engineers with a somewhat greater than mean involvement successful drones, and unneurotic they person complementary specializer expertise successful physics, mathematics, cybernetics, robotics and machine science. They are a lucifer that wasn't created successful heaven, but astatine NTNU.
Test formation completed
In 2019, the 3 master's students completed a survey twelvemonth overseas astatine prestigious MIT successful the US, with immoderate of the astir talented drone lecturers successful the world. That acquisition sparked their thought to make transportation drones.
They started the institution Aviant. Not agelong afterwards, Aviant secured an statement with St. Olavs hospital to make a solution for sending biologic samples betwixt the 2 hospitals.
"We usage pre-built drones but regenerate astir of the electronics with solutions we've developed," says Fagernæs.
A test flight betwixt the cities has already been completed. Using 4G, the drone flew a full of 120 kilometers astatine 120 meters supra the ground. A drone tin transportation medical samples successful fractional the clip that a car requires—and tin assistance prevention lives.
Strong assurance successful the solution
Currently, an relation connected the crushed needs to travel the transportation drone connected a surface during transport.
"But successful the future, the thought is that this relation would beryllium capable to travel respective drones astatine the aforesaid time. Then you prevention moving hours successful summation to transportation time," Fagernæs says.
Numerous entities person expressed assurance successful the solution. Innovation Norway has fixed them NOK 1.5 cardinal (~EUR 147000) successful assistance funding. The Research Council has contributed NOK 1 cardinal (~EUR 98000) successful enactment of the start-up.
Other companies are reasoning on the aforesaid lines. Fagernæs hopes they volition beryllium capable to make a Norwegian collaboration and make solutions that tin vie with overseas actors.
Provided by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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