EMILY
Hybridisation of GNSS and cellular positioning for location-based services
EMILY aims at hybridising satellite and cellular positioning in order to provide a flexible and, when needed, high-performance positioning technology for location-based services. A combined solution will help solve the satellite availability problem experienced by GPS in the urban canyon and the lower accuracy of cellular positioning alone. EMILY will permit the accurate location of EMILY-enabled handsets but will also make lower performance services available to other handsets. The EMILY solution consists of the hybridised user terminal (mobile phones, in-vehicle terminals, etc) and a software component within the mobile network.
Objectives
The EMILY project has:
- defined the requirements of a location service system to comply with future applications such as roadside assistance, location-based billing, concierge services and traffic and route guidance services
- defined the detailed characteristics of the network system implementation of location services that minimises the modifications to existing networks and guarantees a coherent transaction path toward future networks
- fully defined the system architecture and specified the main components
- optimised the location solution to minimise the resources required from the network and the mobile terminal
- restructured the project to enlarge the cellular technologies being considered (Cell-ID, NMR, OTDOA, etc.) and target a firmware solution that will be able to adapt to market trends
Following the withdrawal of the original project coordinator, EMILY was restructured to better reflect market needs as well as include additional partners and ERTICO as the coordinator.
Duration and Funding
January 2001 through March 2005, funding through the EC Directorate General Information Society
Consortium
ERTICO (coordinator), Bouygues Telecom, Capgemini, DAIT, U-Blox, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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EMILY website
Download the EMILY project's final brochure (4568 KB) (5/05)
