RNS Mission Control connects civilian and military responders across borders on satellite, mesh and drone links that keep working when the networks are gone.
We did not design RNS Mission Control at a desk. We carried it to Antarctica, then into a tent camp in the Norwegian mountains, and we run real disaster data through it today. Every module on this page has been used outside a lab.
The expedition team used LEO satellite communication for telemedicine for the first time, with clinical-grade monitoring and live consultation. The results were published in a peer-reviewed journal (Military Medicine, December 2024).
Laptops, patient monitors, drones and MANET radios ran together in the field, with casualty scenarios on a glacier as the workload. No mains, no towers, no cloud.
The Trishuli flood was analysed in RNS Mission Control with satellite images from before and after the event, on the same screen the commander works with. We also made the app available to emergency responders in Nepal.
UCPM and rescEU modules, NATO units and host-nation responders work on the same encrypted picture, across borders and across command structures.
Paramedics, civil protection coordination centres, CIMIC teams, NGOs and military medics see the same map, the same patients and the same tasking.
Satellite uplink, self-healing mesh, airborne repeater and its own power. It runs where towers, mains and roads are gone.
Large crisis-management platforms are designed for command centres with power, networks and IT staff. RNS is designed for the first hours, when none of that exists.
Modular, so each organisation uses what it needs on a shared backbone.
NATO symbology, forces, casualty stations and decontamination points placed by anyone, visible to everyone.
Live ECG, SpO₂, blood pressure and triage status per casualty. Native HL7 data from Mindray N1 patient monitors.
UN and ERG identification, GESTIS and GisChem look-up, dispersion model with live wind and plume overlay, all offline on the mesh.
Wide, zoom, night-vision and thermal video, geo-referenced on the map. The same drone extends mesh coverage into dead zones.
Structured data capture, GPS grid coordinates and direct transmission to command.
Position, status and assignment of every responder, from first aid post to command staff, with encrypted tactical chat.
RNS compares satellite images from before and after the event to show where the damage is, then sends drones to verify it on the ground. Responders get a prioritised picture instead of a search.
Satellite images from before and after the event are analysed to find damaged areas across the whole region.
Drones fly the flagged areas and send live video and thermal imagery back over the mesh for ground-level confirmation.
Confirmed damage appears on the shared tactical map, so every organisation sends teams to the same priorities.
The Solar Backpack carries the full stack: satellite uplink, mesh radios, drone integration, encrypted data link and a local server. Solar, wind and battery keep it alive across multi-day deployments, including below zero.
MorosX MX88 MANET radios: every node is a relay, routing re-optimises around losses, vehicles and foot teams stay connected. ATAK / TAK ready.
End-to-end encryption, GDPR-compliant patient handling, offline-capable local storage and no dependency on non-EU cloud.
The core mesh can be extended with inexpensive radios. Drones carry and deploy Meshtastic nodes into areas no vehicle or team can reach yet, so coverage grows in minutes, not days.
Low-cost nodes placed from the air extend the network into damaged or cut-off areas.
Many inexpensive nodes add reach and redundancy without the cost of more tactical radios.
Extended coverage feeds into the same Mission Control picture as the tactical mesh and the satellite uplink.
RNS Mission Control started on an expedition to Antarctica. Kai Müller and the team that ran it needed clinical-grade telemedicine on a continent without infrastructure, so they built it, took it south and proved it worked. The results were published in Military Medicine in December 2024.
Today Kai Müller leads RNS Europe as managing director, and the platform has grown from a single telemedicine link into a full command-and-coordination system.
Laptops, patient monitors, drones and radios running together in the mountains, with expedition-medicine scenarios as the workload.
Civil protection, critical-infrastructure resilience, civil–military interoperability, NGO field operations: we work with responders across the EU and NATO ecosystem.
