ADVANCED INFO-MOBILITY: The LIAISON Project.
by Telespazio

Telespazio, the Finmeccanica Company leader in satellite services, is on the forefront of research activities for new communication technologies development.

In particular, Telespazio is engaged within the most important international programmes to develop advanced info-mobility solutions. Amongst these programmes LIAISON: a 42 months integrated project co-funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme (Applications and Services for the Mobile User and Worker). LIAISON involves a consortium of 35 companies from manufacturing, services, university research and institutions sectors, and is coordinated by Alcatel Space. Telespazio, with a share of 5% of the contract value, is the main partner of the consortium LIAISON after Alcatel Space.
 
The LIAISON project aims at providing an end-to-end solution for a wide range of mobile workers by combining existing standards and techniques with innovations resulting from the satellite navigation systems EGNOS and Galileo as well as newest Telecom networks (UMTS, TETRA and WLAN) and inertial platforms (MEMS). Realised through an user driven approach, the LIAISON solution covers all the potential needs for professional mobile services: Police, Fire Brigade, e-Maintenance, Waste Collection, Taxis and Electricity, offering services like: fleet management, tracking/tracing, emergency assistance, on-demand taxi, incident management, indoor route guidance, 3D visualization, multilingual presentation.

Telespazio participates in LIAISON both for R&D activities for new services and applications and for the services during tests, as i.e. “Fire brigade intervention”. This kind of application, in particular, is run with the collaboration of the Italian Fire Brigades (Comando Nazionale Vigili del Fuoco), of which Telespazio is a technological partner for communications, localisation and indoor-navigation systems.

LIAISON will exploit the synergies of the numerous and heterogeneous applications, needing accurate and reliable solutions. Such an approach will contribute to new business models to secure the sustainability of the services and applications.

So expected impacts are:

  • Improvement of working conditions, security and safety of the mobile worker
  • Improvement of private and institutional efficiency and services through evolved working methods
  • Consistent recommendations for harmonisation of working regulations in Europe
  • Consistent recommendations linked to the E112 directive
  • Promotion of European solution thanks to EGNOS and ultimately Galileo
  • Contribution to build European excellence in the mobility markets to balance the today “non European” solutions (patents, products, services)
  • Reinforcement of European leadership in cellular technologies like GSM/GPRS
  • Preparation of the European market to LBS before the operational launch of GALILEO services. 

The project also brings consistent recommendations for harmonization of labour legislation in Europe and contributes to fulfil the E112 directive and regulations on disaster situations. 

More details at:

Web: http://liaison.newapplication.it
Web: www.telespazio.com
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