Acronym

Eye in the Sky

Title

New Services for
(i) Fleet management and Customised Mobility Information plus
(ii) Emergency Support for Crises during large-scale events, based on the use of low-altitude platforms and floating car data

Programme

Information Society Technologies

Contract no

IST-2000-29531

Start: 1/8/2001

End: 31/1/2004

Duration 30 months

 

Financial Data

Total Budget 4,230,459 EURO
EU Contribution 2,029,454 EURO
Part Financing 2,201,005 EURO
Budget of Technical University of Crete 88,374 EURO

Description

Key Words
Traffic Monitoring, Fleet Management, Customized Mobility Information, Emergency Services Support

Summary
The main objective of "Eye in the Sky" is to develop and validate commercially sustainable services based on the convergence of diverse and innovative technologies such as low-altitude platforms, communications, floating car data, earth observation and digital mapping.

The Project's overall objective is to provide integrated solutions addressing issues of Traffic Monitoring, Fleet Management, Customized Mobility Information, and Emergency Services Support.

"Eye in the Sky" proposes to adapt earth observation technology and terrestrial mobile communication networks to traffic monitoring and management requirements using new specialized software and methodologies designed for the urban environment. The goal is to establish the foundations for the development of healthy commercially-driven services that respond to needs and expectations of society within the European community. The cost-effectiveness of the applications proposed, derives from the fact that the technologies used are proven, technical know-how is abundant hence minimizing research and development and training costs. Successful application of the proposed services in Athens will inevitably initiate the development of modern market activities in other peer cities inside the European Union.

The development of these new sets of¦nbsp; services and their application on a large scale is expected to create commercial prospects and major opportunities for industry and employment. The technological advances, technical know-how and expertise as well as¦nbsp; economical growth, derived from this project will increase Europe's competitiveness in the global scale. Europe will be in a position to acquire a leading role globally, while developing and protecting its major strategic, economic and commercial interests worldwide.

 

Participants

The consortium is comprised of organizations and companies of complementing technical profiles and expertise:

GEOTOPOS S.A. (Athens, GREECE) - Project coordinator
Technical University of Crete (Chania, GREECE)
Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (Friedrichshafen, GERMANY)
ND SatCom  AG (Friedrichshafen, GERMANY)
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE of the European Commission (Ispra, ITALY)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Berlin, GERMANY)
gedas Deutschland GmbH (Berlin, GERMANY)
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Berlin, GERMANY)
Robert Bosch S.A. (Athens, GREECE)
Blaupunkt GmbH (Hildesheim, GERMANY)