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Fraunhofer FIRST / Institute
Mobile Navigation Lab
© Christiane Peters/ Fraunhofer FIRST
The laboratory operates a telematics testbed comprising all processing stages of TPEG traffic information: data collection from various sources, linking them with TPEG services, encoding them and subsequently distributing them through different channels. Using traffic information services based on the TPEG transmission standard, researchers are generating a series of components for a new generation of mobile guidance systems. Prognostic routing is one of the focal points at the lab. Using external traffic simulations, smooth navigation to the final destination is ensured. The routing algorithms are based on a multi-level concept and are implemented on different mobile end user devices in Java or C++. Completing the system is a convenient target destination search in the locally stored data of mobile end user devices. The search can be carried out quickly and intuitively particularly on devices without full keypads, such as cell phones.
The lab is supplemented with components for seamless navigation between indoor and outdoor space in the scope of the Galileo project. Already today, users of the Galileo testbed at FIRST can survey the range of innovative applications that will only become possible by employing Galileo in combination with indoor technologies.
Equipment:
- TPEG testbed on telematics
- Server infrastructure: DAB/ DAB+/ DMB, IP via UMTS/ GPRS/ WLAN/ WAN
- Mobile end user devices: Nokia N95, HTC-Touch, I-Phone, Android or Aigo
- Interfaces for voice input/sensor technology
Focus:
- TPEG
- GPS/ DGPS/ Galileo/ RFID
- I2V communication
- Prognostic routing
- Seamless navigation
- Indoor 3D navigation
- Prefix-based search