Background of the GAWAIN Project

location based services

In the upcoming years the localization of mobile phones or PDAs will become the main market driver in the area of personal navigation applications. These trends converge in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s E-911 mandate and the E-112 initiative of the European Commission that requires network carriers to provide location or geo-coding of emergency callers who are using wireless handsets. Taken all this into account, an important step intothe market for Galileo is the in-time availability of hybrid Galileo/GPS receivers in combination with cellular network positioning capability for consumer applications. This is the main idea behind the GAWAIN project – the development of an integrated GNSS/UMTS receiver, which provides seamless indoor/outdoor navigation and communication capability, using GPS/Galileo and 3G/UMTS for mass market applications.
The results of GAWAIN will help to improve the accuracy and the capabilities of mobile positioning and localization both, indoors and outdoors.
GAWAIN Project Time Schedule:The project kick-off was in February 2004. The test and demonstration phase will take from February 2006 till September 2006. It is planned to complete the project in October 2006