PROJECTS :

HW's team for Location Innovation are currently working in a number of EU and UK funded projects. These projects enable HW to continue working on forward-thinking approaches to solve real problems, and provide the necessary baseline of technology which may then be applied into the next generation of positioning solutions. Current projects include:

• DAIDALOS

DAIDALOS is an EU FP 6 Integrated Project, currently in its second phase. HW has been involved within both phases, and is currently active within activities on both User Privacy (Virtual Identities) and Context Aware Positioning. HW currently has the lead role for the integration and validation of advanced hybrid positioning within DAIDALOS, where significant advancements to A-GPS and GSM/802.11 positioning are in progress, including:
• Development of context-aware location determination techniques
• MANET Multi-Hop position augmentation which will enable mobile terminals to make use of the positioning capabilities of other mobile terminals in close proximity, and
• Working within Standardisation bodies for multi-layered hybrid mobile positioning protocols.

• PEARL

PEARL is a DTI/NWDA “GRAND” award for HW to facilitate work on the seamless integration of Bluetooth, Wireless LAN and GSM Cellular positioning. The project concentrates positioning using mobile phones and algorithms which enable an optimal location fix - whilst being sufficiently lightweight and ambient in order to operate without burdening the mobile phone’s operating system.
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• MESSAGE

Jointly funded by the DfT and the EPSRC, MESSAGE is a major new £4.1 million research project aimed at reducing traffic pollution through the use of mobile sensors. Activities by HW within MESSAGE target the provision of a CEP P50 accuracy of sub 30m through the use of neighbouring base station information collected and processed on Nokia N80 mobile phones.. read more

• OCCUTEK

OccuTek is an applied research project to investigate and validate the use of mobile phones to verify passenger vehicle occupancy as a means of promoting ride sharing through occupancy related discounts to road usage charging (RUC).  OccuTek also enables occupancy to be utilised in a vast number of applications, including 'step-changes' in E-Call and Adaptive Traffic Management, which shall be demonstrated within the project scope.

• ROSET

ROSET aims to provide solutions to the 3 key remaining questions relating to high integrity telematics systems:
• Technologies to enable robust high integrity telematics systems that meet reasonable security and privacy targets.
• How to successfully integrate several separate telematics systems in a practical way on a vehicle.
• How to validate the resultant (very complex) systems.
HW Communications are involved within ROSET to (i) identify vulnerabilities in the use of GNSS for critical applications, such as road pricing; and to (ii) identify vulnerabilities in identity management infrastructures applied to maintain user privacy.