“Towards a European Partnership in support of satellite-enabled downstream services: main fields for action”. The workshop was organized by the European Commission’s Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General in cooperation with the ministry of economics of Baden-Württemberg and MFG-Baden-Württemberg on 17th and 18th of May 2010 in Stuttgart

The seminar was initiated to present and further discuss policies in support of services powered by satellite technologies and identify key drivers and barriers to new industries emerging in the field.  It looked into new trends and patterns and elaborate scope for a more strategic European approach to better address the needs of companies active in service markets based on satellite-enabled technologies.

The workshop was planned as a 2 half-day’s event and will brought together innovation policy experts and innovation analysts in the services industries to discuss how to better define the sector in terms of industries involved, their innovation dynamics, main actors, companies, incubators, clusters, their needs in terms of support and discuss the main characteristics of European available support programmes.

EuroTeleServ President and DKE Aerospace CEO Dr. Klaus Enßlin presented recent trends in the offer of satellite TLC data and their impact on downstream markets and service companies.

The succeeding panel discussion was focusing on currently available satellite technologies and their impact on the development of new markets of services enabled by them. The aim was to present what satellite infrastructures can currently provide in terms of exploitable data, what kind of services and companies and what sectors are currently being developed based on the use of satellite data and to see what is the future potential. The session included results from main market studies in the field, as DKE Aerospace´s final report on Emerging markets and future Applications in Satcom.

Galileo Application Days - DKE coordinates Liveline Project

Do you know where your children are?

Brussels, March 2, 2010 (by European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA)
http://www.gsa.europa.eu)

Looking for a lost child is a nightmare every parent fears. The LIVELINE project is developing a solution using mobile satellite navigation tracking that could ease those concerns.

Today, there are over 50 million mobile phone handsets with location capability. And this number is growing very rapidly. Location-based services and applications are already being developed. Such services could provide great benefits for the carers of the more vulnerable members of society and the vulnerable people themselves. But such tracking services also raise some big questions that need to be explored: how can providers assure users that the services are secure, and what are the implications for guarding the privacy of individuals?

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