Abstract
We introduce a new information and communication technology (ICT) cloud-based architecture for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) high-accuracy solutions, offering also a commercial overview of GNSS downstream market to show how the developed innovation is thought to fit in the real context. The designed architecture is featured by dynamic scalability, increased integrity, and greater agility of the ICT system. The novelty of the solution developed is a customized ICT architecture, obtained through unique and privileged access to user communities in the frame of the H2020 project TREASURE, allowing the development of a solution entirely driven by user needs. The economic outlook of GNSS downstream markets evolution highlights how the technology proposed effectively matches the evolving business environment, specifically in regard to the increasing need for flexibility and competitive advantage deriving from services. The simultaneous adoption of the technical and commercial perspective is meant to offer interesting findings to both the scientific community and GNSS industry, creating synergies previously unexplored.
Highlights
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology [1] has a growing prominent role in the international horizon, both in terms of technical development and regarding new domains of application [2]
We propose virtual containers where innovative GNSS error mitigation algorithms are deployed as microservices to deliver high-accuracy positioning as final product, ensuring the integrity of the system, since the failure of a single application program interface (API) does not affect the whole system performance
The information and communication technology (ICT) system layout is designed by strictly following the processing requirements of the seven algorithms (Table 1) surveyed through a technical questionnaire, as above mentioned
Summary
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology [1] has a growing prominent role in the international horizon, both in terms of technical development and regarding new domains of application [2] This ever- and fast-evolving scenario brings along new opportunities and challenges for researchers and commercial players. The concomitant necessity to address user needs (soft sciences) and consistently invest in technical innovation (hard sciences) cannot be neglected. Adopting these two complementary perspectives, the present article proposes a new information and communication technology (ICT) cloud-based architecture for GNSS high-accuracy solutions, offering a commercial overview to show how the developed innovation fits in the present context.
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