The innovation challenge to busineses of all types and sizes:

Develop ubiquitous, high accuracy positioning solutions

and WIN a place in a comprehensive 6-month incubation programme supported by the UK Space Agency.

Context: The application of raw GNSS data from Android devices, together with GNSS-based augmentation such as OS Net, will enable a vast number of users to benefit from enhanced positioning services. However, to date the market has been slow to react, with only one publicly-available application that exploits the raw GNSS measurements; a RINEX logger for Android from GEO++.

We at OS think that millions of cheap devices with the capability to log their position with high accuracy could be a game-changer that unlocks a raft of new business opportunities. We are delighted to sponsor this challenge to help UK business take a lead in defining and exploiting these opportunities.

We would like to encourage you, the entrepreneurs and innovators, to explore possible use-cases and develop solutions that utilise the Android raw GNSS signals. We will support you with GNSS-focused technical advice and offer market insights relating to existing applications of high-accuracy GNSS.

Come to this unique event: Meet the expert challengers. Get details on how to make a winning response. Understand OS datasets, specialist tools and technical support. Network with others in this sector.

Multiple winners join the OI Space Incubator - receiving 6-months of research support, entrepreneurial workshops, free workspace, an University of Southampton intern full funded for 10 weeks, visits to Harwell hosted by UK Space Agency, and much more.

Agenda:

0900 hrs: Coffee and Registration

0920 hrs: Main Session

• Introductions
• Welcome Address
• Overview of OI Space Incubator
• Insights to Ordnance Survey and Geovation
• The Challenge – high level context
• The Challenge – deep dive articulation
• Ordnance Survey and Geovation support to OI Space Incubator candidates and winners
• Next steps

1120 hrs: Drinks/ Snacks/ Networking/ Further Questions

1200 hrs: Close

This challenge is being developed as part of the UK Space Agency supported OI Space Incubator.

Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. As a reliable partner to government, business and citizens across Britain and the world, OS helps its customers in virtually all sectors improve quality of life.

We also maintain the National GPS Network, known as OS Net, the infrastructure that supports our national coordinate systems in Great Britain and enables positioning to cm levels of accuracy. This is the starting point for our challenge topic.

We are committed to open innovation. Through our Geovation initiatives, we identify and invest in start-ups. By encouraging small business growth, we’re supporting Britain as a world-leader in innovation, and expanding the use of geospatial data and technologies.

We're passionate about the power of location data and believe that by collaborating with new ideas and entrepreneurial energy we create space for fresh thinking.

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