Horizon - The Location Challenge

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A presentation from the University of Nottingham's Horizon Digital Economy's theme day, looking a infrastructural challenges to "support the contextual footprint". The file has contributions from Jeremy Morley (Deputy Director of the Centre for Geospatial Science) and Prof. Terry Moore, Director of the Institute for Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG).

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THE LOCATION CHALLENGE

Jeremy Morley, Deputy Director,Centre for Geospatial Science, UoN

19th March 2010

You are here?

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Points/lines/polygonsAttributesTopology

Vector or raster data

Gridded dataSampled field

And on the 8th day…

Source: Wikipedia,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NCSA_Mosaic.PNG

Killer app?

© 2010 GIGAS Consortium  http://www.thegigasforum.eu

INSPIREGEOSS GMES

Networks

Data Layers Data Layers Data LayersData Layers

Service Layers Service Layers Service LayersService Layers

Portals and Clients Portals and Clients Portals and ClientsPortals and Clients

User access across initiatives?

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When worlds collide?...

Sources: apple.com, http://www.librarything.com/layarexamples.php

Source: TechCrunch,17th March 2010http://tcrn.ch/9uMX2h

Social applications to gather & push business information

RuleProcessor

ActionQueue

Event Queue

RulesetClient Listener Threads

hyperplace

BroadcastProcessor

query response

J Swan, J Goulding

RAMP

The Augmented Campus:Biological Walks:

Source: OGC White Paper:OGC® Sensor Web Enablement: Overview And High Level Architecture

Source: Gartner 2009 - http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1124212

3D city modelling

www.nottingham.ac.uk/iessg

Location Technology

Professor Terry Moore

Global Navigation Satellite Systems

• NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (or simply GPS)– Is the GNSS at the moment– Owned and funded by US DoD, operated by USAF– In-car SatNav is reliant on over $32B of US military hardware!

• GLONASS– Russian (military) system with near global coverage

• COMPASS / BeiDou– Chinese (military) system with global coverage– Not yet very mature, but … we won’t have to wait too long

• Galileo– We’re getting there – slowly!

How does GPS Work?

How Accurate is GPS?

1 m

1 cm

1 mm

10 m

GPSDoesn’t Work Indoors – does it?

“GPS tracking dot”

“It’s accurate within two feet anywhere on the globe”

GPSHigh Precision – Too Expensive?

What are the Challenges?

New applicationsSeamless indoor-outdoor personal navigation

Intelligent Transport Systems

Rail signalling

Precision aircraft landing

Ships in harbours

Location-dependent billing and virtual security fences

Tracking people/animals/assets

Social inclusion

Creates new challenges

New technologyMore GNSS satellites

More GNSS signals

CommunicationsWiFi / RFIDUWB, Sparse BandDigital broadcasting

Smaller, cheaper inertial sensors

New mapping (outdoor & indoor)More processing power

Drives new applications

Multi-sensor Approach

Different technologies solve different parts of the positioning problem

More information enables greater integrity

Diverse technology gives better availability

Positioning

GNSSDead-

reckoning sensors

Terrestrial radio

navigation

MappingCommuni-

cations

Feature-matching sensors

• Infrastructured– Use of GNSS with – WiFi, RFID, Bluetooth, UWB, etc– Dedicated infrastructure or… – a priori building information or …– Ad-hoc networks, drop units or ….– Signals of opportunity

• Infrastructure-less– Use of DR and INS– Image recognition, Bag-of-Words– low cost, independent

Example ApplicationsIntegrated Indoor Positioning

Indoor GPS Positioning

15m

IMU/ZUPT integration

15m

IMU/ZUPT/Image integration

15m

What are the Challenges?

New applicationsSeamless indoor-outdoor personal navigation

Intelligent Transport Systems

Rail signalling

Precision aircraft landing

Ships in harbours

Location-dependent billing and virtual security fences

Tracking people/animals/assets

Social inclusion

Creates new challenges

New technologyMore GNSS satellites

More GNSS signals

CommunicationsWiFi / RFIDUWB, Sparse BandDigital broadcasting

Smaller, cheaper inertial sensors

New mapping (outdoor & indoor)More processing power

Drives new applications

Source: Gartner 2009 - http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1124212

3D city modelling

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