Positioning Units for Critical Asset Tracking and Emergency Management

Abstract:

Motivated by the opportunity to develop industry pull applications and services for the European EGNOS and GALILEO satellite systems, within SPARTACUS project are being tested satellite based positioning units aided by small inertial navigation platforms. In particular, three different types of tracking units were designed and realized for: (i) freight trains tracing, (ii) relief goods distribution, and (iii) coordination of first responders. In order to improve the positioning accuracy in presence of several units installed on the same convoy, were developed software solutions based on two steps (low and high level) in order to allow the integration of information collected by the individual tracking unit and by the whole array of sensors.

• Periodical: Advances in Science and Technology (Volume 101)
• Pages: 152-157
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.101.152
• Online since: October 2016
• Authors: Luca Vittuari*, Bogdan Pavkovic, Alexis Guinamard, Fabio Casciati, Matteo Zanzi, Antonio Ghetti, Lazar Berbakov, Michele Vece
• Keywords: Dead Reckoning, EGNOS, GALILEO, GNSS, INS, SPARTACUS

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