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Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has joined the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (British APCO) as a platinum member. Platinum is British APCO’s highest-ranking membership category, reflecting Hexagon’s continuous support for public safety in the UK.
British APCO is acknowledged as the leading UK-based association for all professionals using and developing public safety technology. It plays a pivotal role in the improvement of emergency services communications and information technology.
The global leader in computer-aided dispatch solutions for control rooms, Hexagon has served as a vendor and partner to hundreds of public safety organizations around the globe for more than 30 years, supporting smooth incident management, integrated control and command operations and streamlined public safety procedures. Hexagon’s critical control room solutions for the UK public safety community help to optimize resources, enhance information, and integrate workflows for numerous police, fire and ambulance services.
While members of the Hexagon team have been individual British APCO members for years, this marks the beginning of its corporate membership. As a platinum member, Hexagon will actively contribute to the continuous improvement of UK public safety and the sustainable, long-term technological development of the industry. As part of the British APCO Marketing Committee, Hexagon will draw from its expertise and commercial experience to advise on British APCO events, projects and work.
“We are delighted to join British APCO’s efforts in furthering public safety through cutting-edge technology”, said Peter Prater, UK Managing Director of Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure, who himself is celebrating his own 25-year association with British APCO. “This is a critical time for the public safety community, as the market moves in new and innovative directions. By supplying our long-standing experience in the public safety sector, we will strive to complement the fruitful British APCO community.”
“British APCO are very pleased to welcome Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure as Platinum members”, said John Anthony MBE, British APCO President. “As long standing supporter of British APCO, we recognize the importance Hexagon places on working with the public safety community and we look forward to developing this relationship together.” Ian Thompson, British APCO CEO added, “Peter Prater has always been a staunch supporter of British APCO and is an honoured Life Member. We are pleased to see his enthusiasm for public safety communications and technology.”
As a new corporate member of British APCO, Hexagon will feature its industry-leading solutions, including its Intergraph Planning & Response application for major event management, at stand G11 during the British APCO Annual Exhibition and Conference, being held March 20 - 21, 2018, at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has joined the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (British APCO) as a platinum member. Platinum is British APCO’s highest-ranking membership category, reflecting Hexagon’s continuous support for public safety in the UK.
British APCO is acknowledged as the leading UK-based association for all professionals using and developing public safety technology. It plays a pivotal role in the improvement of emergency services communications and information technology.
The global leader in computer-aided dispatch solutions for control rooms, Hexagon has served as a vendor and partner to hundreds of public safety organizations around the globe for more than 30 years, supporting smooth incident management, integrated control and command operations and streamlined public safety procedures. Hexagon’s critical control room solutions for the UK public safety community help to optimize resources, enhance information, and integrate workflows for numerous police, fire and ambulance services.
While members of the Hexagon team have been individual British APCO members for years, this marks the beginning of its corporate membership. As a platinum member, Hexagon will actively contribute to the continuous improvement of UK public safety and the sustainable, long-term technological development of the industry. As part of the British APCO Marketing Committee, Hexagon will draw from its expertise and commercial experience to advise on British APCO events, projects and work.
“We are delighted to join British APCO’s efforts in furthering public safety through cutting-edge technology”, said Peter Prater, UK Managing Director of Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure, who himself is celebrating his own 25-year association with British APCO. “This is a critical time for the public safety community, as the market moves in new and innovative directions. By supplying our long-standing experience in the public safety sector, we will strive to complement the fruitful British APCO community.”
“British APCO are very pleased to welcome Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure as Platinum members”, said John Anthony MBE, British APCO President. “As long standing supporter of British APCO, we recognize the importance Hexagon places on working with the public safety community and we look forward to developing this relationship together.” Ian Thompson, British APCO CEO added, “Peter Prater has always been a staunch supporter of British APCO and is an honoured Life Member. We are pleased to see his enthusiasm for public safety communications and technology.”
As a new corporate member of British APCO, Hexagon will feature its industry-leading solutions, including its Intergraph Planning & Response application for major event management, at stand G11 during the British APCO Annual Exhibition and Conference, being held March 20 - 21, 2018, at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has joined the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (British APCO) as a platinum member. Platinum is British APCO’s highest-ranking membership category, reflecting Hexagon’s continuous support for public safety in the UK.
British APCO is acknowledged as the leading UK-based association for all professionals using and developing public safety technology. It plays a pivotal role in the improvement of emergency services communications and information technology.
The global leader in computer-aided dispatch solutions for control rooms, Hexagon has served as a vendor and partner to hundreds of public safety organizations around the globe for more than 30 years, supporting smooth incident management, integrated control and command operations and streamlined public safety procedures. Hexagon’s critical control room solutions for the UK public safety community help to optimize resources, enhance information, and integrate workflows for numerous police, fire and ambulance services.
While members of the Hexagon team have been individual British APCO members for years, this marks the beginning of its corporate membership. As a platinum member, Hexagon will actively contribute to the continuous improvement of UK public safety and the sustainable, long-term technological development of the industry. As part of the British APCO Marketing Committee, Hexagon will draw from its expertise and commercial experience to advise on British APCO events, projects and work.
“We are delighted to join British APCO’s efforts in furthering public safety through cutting-edge technology”, said Peter Prater, UK Managing Director of Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure, who himself is celebrating his own 25-year association with British APCO. “This is a critical time for the public safety community, as the market moves in new and innovative directions. By supplying our long-standing experience in the public safety sector, we will strive to complement the fruitful British APCO community.”
“British APCO are very pleased to welcome Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure as Platinum members”, said John Anthony MBE, British APCO President. “As long standing supporter of British APCO, we recognize the importance Hexagon places on working with the public safety community and we look forward to developing this relationship together.” Ian Thompson, British APCO CEO added, “Peter Prater has always been a staunch supporter of British APCO and is an honoured Life Member. We are pleased to see his enthusiasm for public safety communications and technology.”
As a new corporate member of British APCO, Hexagon will feature its industry-leading solutions, including its Intergraph Planning & Response application for major event management, at stand G11 during the British APCO Annual Exhibition and Conference, being held March 20 - 21, 2018, at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK.
Časopis ArcRevue 1/2018 je ke stažení ve formátu PDF. Naleznete v něm články o analýze a vizualizaci dopravních nehod, Registru svahových nestabilit ČR, fragmentaci krajiny, historii geologického mapování ČR či studentské analýze bezpečnosti pražských cyklotras. Články o softwaru se i tentokrát zabývají novinkami v technologiích, jako je například aplikace Operations Dashboard, ale také možnostmi strojového učení a spolupráce mezi portály.
Milióny tun plastů, které každoročně končí v oceánech, představují skutečnou globální výzvu. ESA na ni reaguje tím, že detekuje platový odpad z vesmíru. Tím odhaluje místa jeho největší koncentrace a pomáhá lépe pochopit rozsah celého problému.
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Annual Conference Brings Together Global Leaders in Infrastructure
Design, Construction, and Operations to Learn Best Practices for Going Digital
EXTON, Pa. — March 20, 2018 — Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced that the Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference will be held Oct. 15 through 18 in London at the Hilton London Metropole.
Presented by Bentley Institute, the conference is a global gathering of leading industry executives and prominent thought leaders in the design, construction, and operations of the world’s infrastructure. The theme of this year’s conference is Going Digital: Advancements in Infrastructure.
The conference features nearly 70 speakers and more than 50 informative sessions, including keynotes by leading industry experts, interactive workshops, forums, panel discussions, and product demonstrations. Attendees can visit the Technology Pavilion, which features exhibits and presentations from Bentley Systems and its strategic partners Microsoft, Siemens, Topcon, and Bureau Veritas.
On the first day of the conference, Bentley Institute will host Digital Advancement Academies, featuring presentations and interactive discussions with subject matter experts who provide insights and best practices in their areas of expertise including reality modeling, BIM strategy, and constructioneering.
The conference also includes the selection and announcement of the winners of Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards (formerly known as the Be Inspired Awards), which honors the extraordinary infrastructure projects by users of Bentley software throughout the world.
During six industry-focused forums featured during the conference — Buildings and Campuses, Digital Cities, Industrial Infrastructure, Rail and Transit, Roads and Bridges,and Utilities and Water — more than 55 awards finalists will present their projects to independent panels of jurors, more than 100 members of the press, and conference attendees.
From those presentations, winners are selected by the jurors, and will be announced at the conclusion of the conference on October 18 during an evening ceremony and gala.
Aret Garip, technical director for WSP, attended Bentley’s conference last year in Singapore to represent WSP’s One Blackfriars project in London, which was chosen as an awards finalist. Garip said, “The conference has been truly inspiring and educational. It’s a great event to learn about the latest tech in engineering design software and an opportunity to meet the creative, intelligent people who develop new tools to make it easier for us to design buildings.”
In October 2019, the Year in Infrastructure Conference will return to the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore.
To learn more about the Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference and Awards, visit https://yii.bentley.com.
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About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by comprehensive managed services offered through customized Success Plans.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2011 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. For more information about Bentley, visit www.bentley.com.
About the Year in Infrastructure Awards Program
Since 2004, the Year in Infrastructure Awards program (formerly known as the Be Inspired Awards) has showcased excellence and innovation in the design, construction, and operations of more than 3,200 infrastructure projects around the world. The Year in Infrastructure Awards program is unique – the only competition of its kind that is global in scope and comprehensive in categories covered, encompassing all types of infrastructure projects. In the awards program, which is open to all users of Bentley software, independent panels of industry experts select finalists for each category. Visit the Year in Infrastructure Awards website to learn more about the awards program.
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GNSS is just one component of autonomous driving systems, along with other sensors like inertial navigation systems (INS), odometers, radar, cameras, gyroscopes and others. However it is a critical component providing much needed redundancy, according to participants in the Munich Satellite Navigation Conference on March 6.
There is a clear demand for autonomous navigation capability in cars, shipping and in UAVs, with GNSS playing different roles in each of these segments. In autonomous cars, the role of GPS-only solutions was relatively minor so far - mainly route finding – due to the challenging conditions in an urban environment. This may be set to change as robust GNSS signals and services provide increased accuracy, supplying autonomous systems with the necessary reliability.
Speaking at a Munich Summit session on the GNSS needs of autonomous cars and cyber-physical systems, Gian Gherardo Calini, Head of Market Development at the European GNSS Agency (GSA), highlighted Galileo’s critical contribution to autonomous systems. Calini stressed that autonomous applications need accuracy, adding: “Galileo’s double-frequency capability addresses these fundamental needs. This is what will ensure Galileo’s success in autonomous driving.”
Illustrating some of the benefits offered by double-frequency, such as centimetre-level accuracy, better multipath mitigation, and protection against spoofing, Calini presented the final results of INDRIVE project, which uses innovative but close-to-market GNSS-based solutions for semi-automatic driving, and the ongoing ESCAPE project, funded under the European GNSS Agency’s (GSA) Fundamental Elements programme. With respect to the needed homologation and certification process, he also made reference to the lessons learnt from the eCall system, which is aimed at speeding up emergency response services in the event of a road accident, and in which Galileo and EGNOS play a key role.
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The benefits of high accuracy GNSS-based positioning in autonomous navigation were also highlighted by Roman Lesjak, a Senior Researcher at the DIGITAL Institute for Information and Communications Technologies in Graz, who noted that GNSS is very good for dynamic state estimation and can contribute to cooperative driving. “GNSS should be an important part of the puzzle, providing increased redundancy,” he said.
Dr Martin Metzner from the Institute of Engineering Geodesy in Stuttgart agreed, noting that, along with digital maps, GNSS is a key component of automated driving, making it possible to correct the measuring errors of positioning sensors.
This was echoed at a later session on the future of precise point positioning for autonomous systems, where Doug Brent, Vice President for Innovation and Technology at US receiver manufacturer Trimble, noted that the availability, integrity and accuracy of GNSS corrections are essential for autonomous driving, but that fusing data from many sensors would always be necessary.
At the opening session of the Munich Summit on the previous day, Matthias Petschke, Director of EU Satellite Navigation Programmes at the European Commission outlined some of the groundwork being carried out by the European Commission in preparation for autonomous driving. Petschke noted that the Commission is currently preparing a set of legislative proposals and guidelines on connected and automated mobility, which will tackle issues from connectivity data management and cyber security, to infrastructure, road safety and liability.
“Our work on autonomous driving leverages on Galileo’s past and future accomplishments,” he said.
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EGNOS and Galileo were at the World Air Traffic Management (ATM) Congress in Madrid from 6 to 8 March to highlight the vital and increasing role of European GNSS (EGNSS) in the aviation sector enabling simplified, safe and integrated ATM for all aircraft from civil airliners to autonomous drones. On 6 March, funding for research, development, innovation and implementation opportunities worth more than €300 million for EGNSS related aviation projects were presented in a special conference session.
For three days in March, Madrid becomes the centre of the ATM world. Now in its sixth edition, the Congress is the largest ATM forum in the world and is a ‘one-stop shop’ for all things ATM. In 2018 it was bigger and better than ever with a record 237 exhibitors registered and thousands of aviation leaders arriving for three days of conference sessions, product demonstrations and launches, contract closures, and networking.
The main feature for EGNSS at Madrid was an awareness-raising session on the afternoon of 6 March co-organised by GSA: ‘Discover EU funding opportunities worth €300 million....and be part of it’.
The event kicked off with a description of current and upcoming EGNSS funding opportunities in aviation: the current EGNOS for Aviation Call and the next Horizon 2020 EGNSS Market Uptake Call.
Carmen Aguilera, of the European GNSS Agency (GSA) moderated the session and gave an overview of the programmes that are worth, in total, €50 million with the aim to further accelerate the use of EGNOS and Galileo in all aviation application areas, including drones.
The Aviation Grant Programme is the basis for the recently launched third call from the GSA for proposals to promote EGNOS operational implementation throughout European airports and among European airspace users. It targets all segments and aims to foster the use of EGNOS for navigation and surveillance applications, increase network effect and maximise public benefits.
“The call is structured to cover six areas of activity,” said Aguilera including the design and operational implementation of EGNOS based LPV/LPV 200 approach procedures, low level routes, the installation of EGNOS-enabled avionics and granting of airworthiness certification, the development of retrofit and forward-fit solutions, and the development of enablers and other EGNOS based operations including, for example, simulators, validation tools, training materials, or drone applications.
The call was published on 12 February and the deadline for submitting applications is 21May with the signature of the first grant agreements foreseen for September – October 2018. Applications can be made by citizens of any EU Member State and Norway or Switzerland.
More information on the call can be found on the GSA website and a series of information sessions about the call is being organised, including a webinar scheduled for 15 March at 11:00 CET. Registration for the webinar is open now.
The second programme is the forthcoming GSA organised Horizon 2020 research and development call. The H2020-SPACE-EGNSS-2019 call will open on 16 October and cover four topics: EGNSS applications to foster sustainable mobility including the use of drones; EGNSS applications fostering digitisation; ENGSS applications for societal resilience and environmental protection; and projects to raise awareness of EGNSS and capacity building.
The total budget for the call is €20 million and the deadline for proposal submission is 5 March 2019
As an example of a successful EU-funded, GSA-managed research project in H2020, Christian Belleux, Aviation Director at Orolia described the work of the HELIOS project and its subsequent commercialisation.
The project developed a range of Galileo enhanced beacons and associated antennas to exploit the full capability of the MEOSAR COSPAS / SARSAT international programme that operates a global Search and Rescue (SAR) distress alert detection and information distribution system.
EGNOS significantly improves the localisation performance for these beacons, introducing new capabilities and the use of the Galileo SAR service with its return link adds further operational and life-saving features. Two maritime beacons for personal use with Life Jackets and one aviation beacon with an associated high-speed fuselage antenna have been brought to market.
The aviation device will feature remote activation through the Galileo return link service capability and enables accurate location of an aircraft and sharing of critical data. “The device is compatible with recommendations for autonomous distress tracking that will be applicable from January 2021 for all new aircraft builds,” said Bellux.
The final presentation of the session was from Isabelle Jagiello of the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) on the 2017 Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Transport SESAR call for proposals. This €290 million call, which opened on 6 October 2017 and has a final deadline on 12 April 2018, is exclusively for proposals addressing the priority Single European Sky aka SESAR.
The call is aimed at supporting the effective implementation of the Single European Sky policy and improving overall ATM performance in Europe. Funded projects are studies and pilot activities looking to improve infrastructure or technology.
“All project proposals must clearly improve ATM performance,” said Jagiello. “And use of EGNOS and Galileo is also a general requirement.”
The GSA and INEA coordinate their calls to ensure no dual funding and to ensure maximum use of the available budget in the respective programmes.
Following the presentation, participants were invited to a networking drink and the presentation of the 2018 EGNOS awards at the EGNOS stand. The awards were introduced by Sofia Cilla, Service Adoption Manager at ESSP – the EGNOS Service provider - and presented by José Luis Fernandez, Service Provision Unit Manager at ESSP.
The first recipient was Adriana Salmón Fernandez representing FerroNATS, a commercial air traffic control operator in Spain that has just implemented their fifth EGNOS procedure. She praised the smooth coordination of the implementation and looked forward to future collaboration.
Similarly, the second recipient, George Angelou representing the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority, appreciated the cooperation with GSA in the ongoing BlueGNSS programme and looked forward to EGNOS operational approaches in Greece being “up and running” soon.
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