Crisis modes, following natural or human made disasters are unexpected and can take place, anywhere and anytime, imposing to the crisis management to rely heavily on available, during the crisis, telecom and localisation infrastructure to support the execution of rescue operations. These infrastructures, however, are not available or are partially functional during the crisis situations. This…

Maritime transport currently faces significant challenges, including increases in transport volumes and more stringent environmental requirements. Also, seafarers are anticipated to be in shortage in the near future. These challenges are to be answered by technology that is often seen as a mean to increase efficiency. Efficiency, however, comes only in the 4th place within the e-Navigation…

The MarRINav (Maritime Resilience and Integrity of Navigation) project proposes activities in the UK national interest to lay the foundations for the UK’s future CNI for maritime and wider sectors in respect of Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) resilience and integrity (R&I). Following two major UK government reports (Blackett and London Economics) during 2017/18 into the impact and…

The overarching aim of the IMPACARS project is to develop and prove the practical feasibility of an innovative Integrity Risk monitoring and prediction concept for autonomous vehicles, to be used in the emerging field of Automatic Passenger Vehicles (APVs) and therefore, being able to achieve a level of Integrity risk suitable for this domain (characterised by a very dynamic environment). The…

High Accuracy Assistance Service (HAAS) is a high-precision, cloud-based corrections service. It contains highly accurate corrections for orbits, clocks, ionospheric and tropospheric delays. These corrections are delivered over terrestrial means via the same high availability infrastructure already supporting over a billion devices each day. The use of HAAS will enable horizontal position accuracy…