egeniouss

The EU project egeniouss develops a real-time visual localisation framework for satellite-based navigation to make accurate and reliable navigation available for everyone.

Whether travelling by bike or on foot, working as a city surveyor, architect, or construction manager, or even the operation of autonomous drones and vehicles – all these tasks depend on accurate and reliable satellite-based navigation and positioning. But in cities, urban canyons interrupt and reflect satellite signals making navigation unreliable und imprecise.

The 3,5 years lasting Horizon Europe project consisting of seven partners and led by the Austrian Institute of Technology, develops the egeniouss base technology to offer a reliable, precise, and cost-effective positioning and navigation solution tailored for urban settings. Partners include the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), GeoNumerics (Spain), Crayon (Austria), CATUAV – Drone Center, the Centro Español de Logística, and Swiss partner OPENGIS.ch.

As the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry at Technical University of Braunschweig, we are contributing to two aspects: a) geospatial data acquisition and harmonisation with the goal of preparing  it for use as base information for visual localisation. Datasets include mobile mapping images, airborne (oblique) images and 3D city models. b) the development, implementation and testing of methods for visual localisation using 3D city models, that is, utilising the known object geometry (of buildings) to support sensor orientation.

By the choice of the three use cases, egeniouss contributes to more safety and comfort making our cities more liveable in the age of digitalisation. Two smartphone-based use cases, namely bicycle navigation and smartphone-based surveying & mapping, and one robotic use case – drone delivery – will demonstrate complementary features of the combined EGNSS – Visual Localisation service.

Besides the three quick starters – firstly GNSS-based mapping, secondly navigation & tracking for cyclists and pedestrians and thirdly drone based operations - egeniouss lays the basis for the improvement of other location-based and -dependent services and the development of still unknown service opportunities in growing market segments. The egeniouss GNSS- and cloud-based visual localisation base technology will be applicable to any device with a camera, computing power and a GNSS receiver (e.g. smartphones and -watches, tablets, drones).

Find detailed information on www.egeniouss.eu

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