LIAISON: Location based services for the enhancement of working environment

LIAISON: LocatIon bAsed services for the enhancement of wOrking enviroNment (2004 – 2009). FP6-2003-IST-2-511766 Research on WiFi location through TOA. Coordinator of the Work Package 4: “Advanced LBS research activities”. Finished.

Description

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. 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.

Period

Start date: 01/09/2004
End date: 28/02/2008
Status: Completed

Funding

European Comission through the Fifth Framework Programme

Budget

Project: 21,404,814 €
EU contribution: 11,694,932 €

Participants

Alcatel Space, Sussex Police Authority, Alcatel Business Systems, Ministerio dell'Interno-Dipartimento dei Vigili del Fuoco, Center of Usability Research & Engineering, EDISOFT, France Telecom S.A, Vereinigung High Tech Marketing, Instuto de Ciencia Aplicada e Technologia, Demokritos, ST Microelectronics, Navteq, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Telédiffusion de France, Telespacio, University of Rome Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, University of Athens, Distance Expert, Portugal Space, Robotiker, Iberdrola., Comune di Roma, Mobile GIS, , Vodafone-Panafon S.A, Hellenic Telecommunication Organization, Foundation for Research and Technology - HELLAS, AMA S.P.A., ENTEOS, Magdalene Telecom Ltd, GeoConcept, Tardito Costruzioni Impianti Srl.

Further information

http://www.liaison-project.eu