The LIAISON project will turn emergent technologies, applications and services into actual business cases in order to allow key European actors to fulfil in a competitive manner the needs of workers in their daily life, for seamless and personalised location services across heterogeneous network.
Co-ordinated by Thales Alenia Space, this Integrated Project unites expertise and activities from major European actors committed to provide end-to-end Location Based Services, applications and solutions. The project will have an overall duration of 3.5 years.
For a wide range of mobile workers communities, LIAISON will provide end-to-end services which today cannot be achieved due to lack of co-ordination between available mobile and location techniques, poor performances of location techniques and lack of synergies between actors.
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 | To achieve this target, LIAISON will integrate numerous existing standards and techniques, bring a set of emerging underlying technologies to the required maturity for professional usage, enhance the system capabilities through innovations resulting from EGNOS and Galileo signals as well as the newest Telecom Techniques. |
Last but not least, 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.
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.
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