Until the end of 2010, the urban community of greater Toulouse will plant nails of a particular type. The first was placed on the Piazza del Campidoglio. Eighty will follow, in the metropolitan area. These nails, geo-referenced, i.e. which is exactly known geographical position, to the nearest centimetre will serve as benchmarks for satellites for the use of the European Galileo positioning system planned for 2013. But in the meantime, they will be used by its precursor Egnos, which improves the accuracy of the current GPS, limited to 10 or 20 meters and unreliable in the city (from 1 metre to Galileo). The presence in Toulouse of the major actors in the space as the CNES, EADS Astrium, Thales Alenia Space and, since April, the European Satellite Services Provider, operating Egnos, generated a fabric of companies designing the navigation applications for pedestrians, the disabled, the users of transportation, tourists, etc., by crossing with telecommunications satellite signal. To test these applications, the ready business Grand Toulouse its geographic information system (GIS) detailed agglomeration: enriched mapping of a digital model of terrain and elevation of buildings, said trees, urban furniture, bus stops and even the height of the sidewalks. Communities also want to build a technological platform of the navigation satellite destined for SMEs, the project will be presented to the State before 31 May, in a national tender.
Approximately 50 regional companies participate in many programs of R & D on the navigation. This is the case of My Toulouse 2013, a tracking system on the mobile of cultural sites and entertainment programmes, designed by Pole Star (signal processing), Magellium (3D mapping), Master (multimedia) Image and Himacom. This application was completed in 2008 for the candidacy of the city to the title of European capital of culture in 2013. This is Marseille was selected, but My Toulouse 2013 will have a suite. "We will launch this year a call for tenders to create a Bank of information services geo-localized culture, transport, administrations and health centres", says Richard Reclus, the economic development of the greater Toulouse service.
Map in real time
Another project, Siteeg, is a map in real time traffic and the pollution of the air of the metropolitan area by installing sensors, GPS and pollutants on cars. 13 Companies and laboratories coordinated by Sodit partners will present the results in July, before starting the project in Shanghai.
Firefighters from Chongqing, Chinese metropolis with Toulouse, should soon be equipped with a support system designed by the Group of companies TAMS. This project called "filonas" coordinates emergency vehicles, the guide buildings combining GPS, Wi - Fi signal and calculating. The group now negotiates a contract for equipment of 300 vehicles in Chongqing. Another innovation is finding a commercial market. Navocap, navigation for transit equipment manufacturer, has developed with CNES system Angéo for guiding the visually impaired in the city, via a PDA voice recognition. This technology uses GPS and walk sensors to achieve an accuracy of 5 meters. To manage the system, Navocap has created the company Angéo Technology, which it holds a share of 11 next Telespace Participations (CNES) and for which he is looking for partners. Platform for visually impaired will work in June on the Grand Toulouse and then extend to 17 French cities. "In that for 3.5 of the visually impaired speaking in French, English, Spanish and German, we expect a market of EUR 48 million in five years and create 300 jobs of technicians and vendors," enthuses Edgar Antoine, CEO of Navocap. Angéo will be completed by the project of R & D browser of the Institute of research in computer science from Toulouse, a precision of 1 metre by embedded vision..
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