The production of low cost receivers is seen as the key to opening up the market for precision location services, and the aim of the project is to come up with a design that will enable a number of suppliers to move quickly towards volume supply.
The GREAT (Galileo REceiver for the mAss markeT) programme is funded by the Galileo Joint Undertaking, under Framework Programme 6, to exploit the special characteristics of the Galileo signal to and open up Europe’s location based services market.
GREAT has been set up and will be led by the technology management company PA Consulting Group of Cambridge, UK. The five other organisations in the consortium are ACORDE - a Spanish SME with radio frequency design experience for satellite and communications systems; DLR, the German Aerospace Centre, an expert in satellite navigation and communication, mobile radio and aeronautical communications; Tampere University of Technology - Finnish experts in algorithm design for global positioning systems; and u-blox AG - a Swiss developer and manufacturer of GPS chipsets and GPS receiver modules.
The work will include development of novel front-end radio frequency designs, algorithms and baseband technology that will allow the Galileo signal to be picked up indoors. The research will examine technology that is suitable for use in 3G mobile phones and beyond and similar products, allowing a wide range of location based services to be effectively deployed.
Galileo is intended to ensure Europe's strategic independence, whilst giving European companies a route into a receivers market it is estimated will be worth Euros 200 billion in 2020, when 3 billion receivers will be in service.
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