MULTI-POS: Marie Curie network in multi-technology positioning

The global navigation market (products and services) is expected to exceed 160 billion EUR revenue in 2015 with significant growth being driven by mobile terminals. Future wireless society needs trustworthiness of the wireless positioning device and eco-friendliness of the transmission-reception process. These are triggered by the user requirements, preferences and targeted applications, and by the type of the environment where navigation takes place. A link has been missing between these user needs/environment awareness (or application layer) and the physical layer where the wireless device is actually designed. The missing link can be created by cognitive approaches, borrowed on one hand from cognitive human behavior, and on the other hand from cognitive computing. Building a cognition stage between the application and physical layers creates a myriad of new possibilities for flexible location-based services and positioning-based applications. MULTI-POS training network is bridging the gap between the lower technology layer and upper application layer involved in wireless mobile location. In addition, MULTI-POS offers comprehensive training to young fellows in the broad field of wireless location, creates novel technologies and business models for the future location-enabled wireless devices, promotes the exchange of fellows in mixed academic-industrial R&D trajectories and in multiple European cultures, and will initiate an educational and research framework that unifies the currently fragmented research activities on technological and applications aspects of wireless navigation. There is strong involvement of industrial partners in the network to accomplish all this.