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UK SatNav Challenge: Submit your Ideas
23 July 2008, 3:03pm
There is only 1 more week for you to enter your idea into the 2008 UK SatNav Challenge.
"Everybody has been amazed at what clever entrepreneurs have been able to do [with Satellite Navigation]; it does far more than what anyone could have dreamed of when they invented the system," said Richard Peckham of EADS Astrium Navigation, and one of the Judges of the UK competition.
Winners over the last 3 years include Traffic Control modelling, Mapping solutions, Monitoring assistance to the elderly and the blind, vehicle accident profiling and a major advance in real time gaming around Formula 1. All such ideas have their own brand of uniqueness and benefit from the increased accuracy of the timing signals from the Galileo satellites.
Galileo challenges sat-nav firms - BBC News article, 17th July 2007
Real racing in the virtual world - BBC News article, 11th June 2008
Prizes for the UK Winner include IP Protection evaluation, Business Development Support from HBIC and the chance to present your ideas at Systems Fair, 21-24th October, Munich.
Thereafter HBIC will assist in further commercialisation assistance to bring your ideas into the arena of specialised EU funding and support.
If you have any queries regarding either the UK SatNav Challenge or Sidereus please contact us on 01438 310047
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