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The Project is co-funded
by the EC
(IST-2001-34227)

Background of the GAWAIN Project

In the upcoming years the localization of mobile phones
or PDAs will become the main market driver in the area
of personal navigation applications. These trends
converge in the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission’s E-911 mandate and the E-112
initiative of the European Commission that
requires network carriers to provide location or
geo-coding of emergency callers who are using wireless
handsets. Taken all this into account, an important step into
the market for Galileo is the in-time availability of hybrid Galileo/GPS
receivers in combination with cellular network positioning capability for consumer applications. This is the main idea behind the GAWAIN project – the development of an integrated GNSS/UMTS receiver, which provides seamless indoor/outdoor navigation and communication capability, using GPS/Galileo and 3G/UMTS for mass market applications.

The results of GAWAIN will help to improve the accuracy and the capabilities of mobile positioning and localization both, indoors and outdoors.

GAWAIN Project Time Schedule:
The project kick-off was in February 2004. The test and demonstration phase will run until March 2007. It is planned to complete the project end of March 2007.

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