The OTELO project aims to design a system that guarantees a reliable echographic diagnosis in an isolated site away from an expert MD located at the expert clinical site (University Hospital, ultrasound expert center...).
This should be performed knowing that there is only a non ultrasound specialist present at the isolated site also called the patient site, or in rescue vehicle and that the transmission system (audio, video, numeric...) is the only link between the two sites.

The OTELO project proposes the study and development of a fully integrated end-to-end mobile tele-echography system for population groups that are not served locally, either temporarily or permanently, by medical ultrasound experts.

The OTELO project offers an alternative to medical centers that lack ultrasound specialists.

OTELO is a portable ultrasound probe holder robotic system, associated with new mobile communications technologies (ISDN, Fixed and mobile satellites solutions, 3G technologies.).
It will reproduce the expert's hand movements performed during an ultrasound examination.
Although being positionned, on the patient's skin, by non-specialised staff on the remote site, the patient system will bring, in real time, good image quality back to the expert site where force feedback control will be combined with virtual reality for the rendering of the distant environment.