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Expanding EGNOS horizons

The EU project MEDUSA is helping countries in North Africa

and in the Middle East utilise EGNOS services

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Contents

• Euromed GNSS programme

• Euromed GNSS II/MEDUSA

• GEMCO

• MEDUSA’s technical assistance actions in freight transport

• MEDUSA’s “case study” of Jordan

• Lessons learnt

• Outlook

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Euromed GNSS programme:

• Goal: EGNOS introduction in Euromed region

• Infrastructure implementation for EGNOS service provision (SiS)

• Service introduction/exploitation and market preparation

2006 - 2009 → Euromed GNSS I/METIS

2012 - 2014 → Euromed GNSS II/MEDUSA

in parallel with the infrastructure implementation for EGNOS service extension to

cover the area

EGNOS introduction in Euromed region (1)

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Today’s coverage of EGNOS Open Service

Source: ESSP

EGNOS introduction in Euromed region (2)

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Euromed GNSS II/MEDUSA

MEDiterranean follow-Up for EGNOS Adoption:

− May 2012 for 3 years

− Pool of EU experts

− Euromed partner countries

Goal:

− Best practices sharing

− Aid to countries to prepare/set up the basis for the feasibility assessment/decision

making process

− Aid to countries towards the exploitation of EGNOS services and operational

adoption

− Technological transfer and capacity building

− A programme of technical assistance actions tailored on specific local, sub-

regional, regional needs (focus on aviation and freight transport/road)

Euromed Partner countries:

Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia

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MEDUSA - implementation

1. Programme of technical assistance actions:

− Support and preparation for the optimal use and adoption of E-GNSS services

− Aid in setting-up the basis for feasibility assessment/decision making process

− Focus on aviation and transport/freight & road (priorities for the region -

METIS)

− Tailored to local needs (country, sub-regional, regional)

− According to countries’ maturity in terms of market readiness and EGNOS

service availability

− Best practices sharing

− Technological transfer

− Capacity building

2. Networking and cooperation activities:

− Promotion/public events

− MEDUSA national workshops + vis-a-vis dedicated meetings to:

meet decision-makers and key stakeholders

gather local needs/inputs on maturity

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GEMCO - Galileo EuroMed Cooperation Office

• Located in Tunis (Tunisia)

• Set-up and operated by MEDUSA

• Acting as a point of reference for all Euromed countries and towards Europe

• Supporting the implementation of the assistance actions put in place by MEDUSA

• Long-term (after MEDUSA’s end)

• Mission:

− Incubator

− Catalyser

− Facilitator of initiatives related to E-GNSS in the Euromed region

− Promotion

− Networking

• Contacts:

− email: antonella.difazio@telespazio.com, gemco.medusa@outlook.com

− Telephone number: +21671857325

− Skype name: GEMCO MEDUSA

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GEMCO in the medium/long-term - GEMCA

• Tunisia legal entity

• No-profit association

• Galileo Euromed Cooperation Association

• Tunisian members, including GEMCO’s staff

• Statute, based on GEMCO’s mission

• Organigramme, including GEMCO’s staff

• Heritage from GEMCO & MEDUSA

• Yearly action plan (presently under elaboration), to ensure self-sustainability

• Continuity from GEMCO to GEMCA

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MEDUSA’s “case study” of Jordan

• Goal: technical assistance action to support the use of GPS+EGNOS in freight

transport

• Containers tracking & tracing

• Shipment from Italy to Jordan (port of Aqaba)

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Demonstration/operational validation:

• Technical feasibility

• Operational feasibility

• EGNOS added value and benefits verification

• Technical support

Technology, experiences transfer and best practices sharing:

• Stakeholders awareness

• Guidelines and recommendations for an optimal introduction and adoption

• Training and technology handover

• Promotional material

Main outcomes

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing services

for freight transportProducts/solutions developed in Europe:

− Using EGNOS OS and EDAS

− Developed through public funds and industrial investments

− Integrating off-the shelf components

− Extensively proven and/or in operations

EGNOS OS

EDAS

EGNOS SoL

operational since

October 2009

operational since

July 2012

operational since

March 2011/

Certified for civil

aviation

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing services

for freight transport - architecture

Internet

EGNOS

Platform

Internet

GPRS

Inmarsat

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing services

for freight transport - tracking device

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing services

for freight transport - operations case GPS+EGNOS

Case GPS+EGNOS (inside EGNOS’s service coverage area):

• Positions corrected (more accurate information)

• HPL «Horizontal Protection Level» providing a guarantee of the position (more

reliable information)

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing services

for freight transport - operations case GPS-only

Case GPS-only (outside EGNOS’s service coverage area):

• Positions not corrected

• HPL «Horizontal Protection Level» not available

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing services

for freight transport - LCS (1)• Navigation solution enabling using EDAS and provision of services based on it

• A “plug-in” solution for an easy retrofitting of existing GPS systems to use EDAS

• Provided services: a more accurate position with respect to that measured through

GPS and an information enabling to qualify/guarantee it (“protection level”)

• Consisting of a set of SW modules running on a server, connected to EDAS to get

EGNOS data and providing commercial services exploiting EGNOS features into

added value

• Optimised for ITS, road, freight transport and logistics applications

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing

services for freight transport - LCS (2)

Performance analysis/comparison between GPS-only and GPS+EDAS via LCS (case Europe):

Values (in meters) of the horizontal and vertical Distance Root-Mean-Square (DRMS - root mean

square of the distances from the average 3D position to the observed positions obtained from a

number of trials)

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GPS+EGNOS based tracking & tracing

services for freight transport - LCS (3)

Availability of the horizontal “protection level” and relevant statistical distribution

case Jordan

case Europe

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EGNOS added value and benefits

• EGNOS corrections enabling to improve the GPS position accuracy

• EGNOS integrity information on the quality of the signals of the GPS, enabling to

obtain the Horizontal Protection Level (HPL), being a measure of the level of

confidence of the position calculated by using the GPS signals

Added value:

• More precise and qualified/guaranteed positioning

• Trustable and reliable localization and monitoring

• Robust asset tracking

Benefits:

• Supporting safety and security, and quality contracts

• Facilitation of customs procedures

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Today’s status

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Lessons learnt and outlook (1)

− EGNOS and Galileo can provide benefits not only to European countries.

− Added value/benefits are generated by the use of EGNOS OS and EDAS.

− EGNOS enables reliable positioning for robust tracking and tracing services, and

tomorrow with Galileo in a multiconstellation scenario.

− Products and solutions are ready and available, and used in Europe.

− EGNOS use in ITS for freight and road transport applications can be an important

support for the international trade around the Mediterranean basin, and a very

efficient enabler of the “single window” and “e-freight” concepts as well as of

other regional and neighbourhood policies, like those envisaged by the Regional

Transport Action Plan (RTAP).

− EGNOS service coverage extension to guarantee in the Euromed region the same

EGNOS performance in Europe is a fundamental enabler.

− Meanwhile the Euromed countries can launch initiatives, on a national or on a

regional basis, to take full advantage of the early services offered by EGNOS

today.

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− MEDUSA’s Jordan “case study”, understood as a proof of concept, can stimulate

and trigger the development of national and regional initiatives, in the form of

research projects, new ITS adoptions and transport policies development.

− MEDUSA’s role is to give the opportunity to the Euromed countries to share

European experiences and have advices and guidance to implement their own

activities.

− Key date 21 October 2014: regional event open to the freight transport

community (in Amman)

Lessons learnt and outlook (2)

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Thank you!

Questions?

Contacts:

− email: antonella.difazio@telespazio.com, gemco.medusa@outlook.com

− Telephone number: +21671857325

− Skype name: GEMCO MEDUSA