SOS on Offshore Platform Seven

Abstract

In emergencies the offshore wind farm maintenance teams are initially left to their own devices. The RAVE project Sea and Offshore Safety – SOS investigated how first responders could help the injured using telemedical emergency care. The analysis focused primarily on such prerequisites as a functioning communication chain for transmitting live vital data, Wi-Fi connection quality and good camera lighting in the tower. It also compared audio and audiovisual systems with one another. The research project furthermore developed a prototype for the offshore emergency provision, an easily portable telemedical box (TMBox), which surpasses existing emergency systems with regard to usability for certain application scenarios, and which could possibly also be used in inaccessible areas on land. In the future, with improved software the functional implementations of this TMBox could even be available as a smartphone app.