Bringing Galileo Into LBS Market - the Agile Project

Europe is on the way to build its own Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) independent from the existing U.S. and Russian systems already in orbit. The expenses of EUR 3.2 billion are only a fraction of the expected revenues and social benefits of Europe's system - Galileo. Location based services (LBS) have ever been recognised as the primary future market for Galileo in terms of the number of users and potential revenues. A service oriented approach was chosen to settle the Galileo system definitions to meet user requirements. The challenge of the AGILE - application of Galileo in the LBS environment - project is to deal with marketing, institutional, and technical aspects of the LBS market that may facilitate the acceptance and success of Galileo-based personal mobility solutions. This paper is based on the contribution to the AGIT conference (E. Wasle et al., 2006) of the AGILE consortium