The Easy-OBU Project

Easy-OBU is a European Research Project co-funded in the 7th FP of the European Commission. The project was accepted within the 3rd Call of the GSA - Use of EGNOS and early GALILEO services for professional applications. All projects in this call are managed by the European GNSS Agency. The Easy-OBU project team consists of 5 partners from 3 European Countries. The project coordinator is EFKON AG from Austria. The other partners are: Austria Tech (Austria), pwp-Systems (Germany), Technical University of Prague (Czech Republic) and ITS&S (Czech Republic). The project started in June 2012 and lasts 2 years. The main objective of Easy-OBU project is to introduce and demonstrate an inexpensive, portable on-board-unit (OBU) with open interfaces that allows retrospective robust positioning of vehicles for those instances where no or insufficient signal reception from navigation satellite were available.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Stratil, Hannes
  • Pfister, Jorg
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver support systems; Global Positioning System; Navigation systems; Portable equipment; Vehicle electronics
• Identifier Terms: Global Navigation Satellite System
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01496468
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 4 2013 1:25PM