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THE 2ND NAVISP INDUSTRY DAYS

THE 2ND NAVISP INDUSTRY DAYS 2019 has been a busy year for ESA’s NAVISP programme. We would like to share our successes and achievements with you during the second edition of our NAVISP Industry Days. The event is planned to…

Assessment of Effectiveness of NAVISP Phase 1 and Recommendations for Phase 2

Assessment of Effectiveness of NAVISP Phase 1 and… Following the success of NAVISP’s first years, we have decided to propose a NAVISP phase 2 for Space19+. In order to support the NAVISP phase 2 preparation, we have set up the Navigation Innovation…

NAVISP featured in GPS World

NAVISP featured in GPS World NAVISP was recently featured in GPS World. The article treats the aims and focus of the NAVISP Programme and highlights our broader aim of engaging with the PNT sector, i.e. that we are not only…

Smartphones plus satellite navigation for safer, smarter festivals

Smartphones plus satellite navigation for safer, smarter… Summertime in Europe equals festivals: people gathered together for music and arts under an open sky. But the very popularity of these events can lead to problems. The NAVISP Element 2 activity AGORA,…

Adding satnav to turn power grids into smart systems

Adding satnav to turn power grids into smart systems A NAVISP project is harnessing satnav to insert an intelligent sense of place and time to power grids, to provide early warning of potentially dangerous electricity network failures. Four years ago…

Next events

NAVISP at the International Navigation Conference 2019

→ NAVISP at the International Navigation Conference 2019

Date: 18 - 21 November 2019

This year's International Navigation Conference will take place in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on the 18th to 21st of November. NAVISP will particiapate with a dedicated booth, ready to answer all of your questions. We hope to see you there! More information can be found here: https://rin.org.uk/mpage/INC2019_Home

LATEST INVITATIONS TO TENDER
LATEST PROJECTS

PNT Timing & Synchronisation for Aviation Systems and Networks
- Open date: Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
- Close date: Friday, 13 September, 2019
- EMITS Reference Number: AO9915
Machine-Learning to model GNSS systems
AI-enabled baseband algorithms for High Fidelity Measurements
Antenna and Transponder Unit for Underwater PNT
- Open date: Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
- Close date: Thursday, 31 October, 2019
Advanced concept for chip-scale atomic clocks
- Open date: Monday, 15 July, 2019
- Close date: Monday, 07 October, 2019

Alternative Space-based PNT data layer
- Status date: Monday, 14 October, 2019
  In the last years, there has been fast progress in satellite on-board computing achieved by the satellite telecommunication industry. On-board processors are more performant, with less mass, volume and power consumption. As regards current and evolving space-based PNT data layer services (e.g. private or public GNSS data augmentations), they usually retransmit data computed on-ground via…
Enabling Ultra-High Accuracy Positioning in Challenging Environment
- Status date: Thursday, 26 September, 2019
  The need for high accuracy PNT in challenging environments has become obvious and, henceforth, mandatory for many applications. Currently, an accuracy target of 1 m in an urban environment seems a realistic achievement with multi-GNSS PPP or RTK capabilities. A significant R&D effort is ongoing to reach this target in operational products, using carrier phase positioning (PPP and RTK) and European…
SRX-SW-Defined Receiver for eXact PNT
- Status date: Sunday, 22 September, 2019
  The SRX project aims to develop an industrial prototype of a multi-GNSS multi-frequency GNSS receiver module, offering high-precision positioning and heading capability in adverse signal environments like forests. The usage of Galileo E5ab and BeiDou-3 B2 ACE-BOC wide-band signals integrated with MEMS sensor measurements is considered a key here to achieve robust vector tracking based solutions…
Complementary PNT Infrastructure in LEO (bis)
- Status date: Monday, 02 September, 2019
  GNSS is the only global, free, comprehensive technology providing absolute PNT data to users worldwide. Its limitations are known, including long life cycle and replenishment schedule, affecting their ability to adapt easily to short-term market needs and to some extent, resilience. Considering the above, alternative PNT methods and solutions have been developed or are being investigated,…
Ultra-Low Power Device Positioning Concepts
- Status date: Monday, 09 September, 2019
  There are an increasing number of IoT applications, and projections show that global Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) connections will increase by almost one order of magnitude in the next five years. Terrestrial networks are continuously targeting evolutions of the IoT markets. For example, the latest release of 3GPP standards has introduced modifications to their standard (e.g. NB-IoT) to comply with…