User-Oriented ICT Cloud Architecture for High-Accuracy GNSS-Based Services

• Main Authors: Hossein Ghobadi, Paola Testa, Luca Spogli, Massimo Cafaro, Lucilla Alfonsi, Vincenzo Romano, Richard Bru
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019-06-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: ICT; GNSS; error mitigation; cloud-based service; integrity; scalability; market trends; servitization
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/11/2635

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.