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Join ESA’s virtual workshop on 5G plus satnav

Written by  Monday, 22 February 2021 07:30
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Indoor field tests

The coming of 5G promises much more than simply better-than-wi-fi smartphone connectivity; it should enable a wide range of novel services, including asset tracking, autonomous driving and drone flying as well as the internet of things. Highly precise localisation is needed to make such innovations feasible however. ESA has led a major project assessing the potential of 5G and satellite navigation in combination and next month a webinar will make its initial findings public.

3GPP standardisation
3GPP standardisation

About GINTO5G

GINTO5G has been supported through ESA’s European GNSS Evolution Programme (EGEP), as an Agency contribution to the worldwide 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, standardisation effort.

The project is overseen by GMV (Spain) which coordinates a consortium of world-class experts in the field of navigation and communications: Fraunhofer IIS (Germany), DLR (Germany), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), u-blox (UK), Telefonica I+D (Spain).

For the field tests, ESA and GMV set up a collaboration with Deutsche Telekom (Germany), which provided information about its telecommunication network, and Hexagon | NovAtel (Canada), which provided state-of-the-art GNSS equipment and access to modern corrections services.


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