GPS World, April 2014

BUSINESS THE Industry news and developments GPS Galileo GLONASS ESNC 2014 Are You Master of the Galileo Universe T he European Satellite Navigation Competition ESNC is looking for services products and business innovations that use satellite navigation in everyday life Prizes will be awarded by some of the most relevant institutional GNSS stakeholders such as the European GNSS Agency GSA and the European Space Agency ESA In addition partner regions from all over the world are hosting regional challenges The competition officially kicks off at the European Navigation Conference in Rotterdam on April 15 but submissions are being accepted from April 1 to June 30 The prize pool of ESNC 2014 is expected to value about 1 million euros Awards include cash prizes business incubation business coaching patent consulting technical support access to testing facilities prototype development publicity marketing support feasibility studies access to experts and public funding and more In 2013 25 partner regions offered prizes and seven special prizes were provided by leading European industry and research partners Entries will be assessed by the expert panels of the regions and special prize partners The overall winner the Galileo Master will be selected from among all regional and special prize winners by an international panel of highranking experts The Galileo Master will ESNC Hosts at CAPIGI The ESNC is hosting a session at the CAPIGI conference in Amsterdam on April 3 jointly with the Copernicus Masters The conference is dedicated to space technology for agriculture focusing on the European Flagship programs Galileo and Copernicus CAPIGI the Community on Agricultural Policy Implementation and Geo Information is a network for geo information experts active in agriculture be revealed at an awards ceremony in Munich Germany in October and will receive an additional cash prize of 20000 euros as well as the chance to realize the winning idea as part of a six month incubation program in the region of his or her choice For full details visit the competition website at www galileo masters eu 2013 Galileo Master KINEXON offered a precise tracking and monitoring solution for sports and healthcare PROFESSIONAL OEM Septentrio Imec Design High Precision Galileo Antenna Imec and Septentrio have collaborated to design multi frequency GNSS antenna that simultaneously receives all GPS GLONASS BeiDou and Galileo bands Developed under the European Communitys Seventh Framework Programme project Handheld the compact antenna can be integrated in multi frequency handheld GNSS devices for high precision location applications up to 1 centimeter The compact antenna integrates Imecs GNSS antenna and Septentrios GNSS RF front end Imecs antenna design satisfies the requirements for the high accuracy GNSS market while remaining small enough to fit in a handheld surveyor device the companies said The antenna has desired uniform gain and phase coverage over the complete upper hemisphere with strong suppression of unwanted reflected signals below or in the vicinity of the GNSS receiver The GNSS RF front end based on established front end technology developed by Septentrio is characterized by superb out of band interference rejection to avoid device self interference with other radiation sources such as Bluetooth and WLAN radios as well as other ambient intentional and non intentional interference The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Framework Programme FP7 2007 2013 under grant agreement n 287183 GPS World April 2014 www gpsworld com 18