ESA Innovation Competitions 2013 - AZO

Innovation Competitions for Mobile App Developers

Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO)

Franz Haslbeckm-ACADEMY

Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen

Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO)

Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) is supporting innovation and incubation in the commercial use of space technologies and infrastructures:• Organisation of two leading innovation networks for satellite navigation

(Galileo Masters) and Earth monitoring (Copernicus Masters) • Management of business incubation programme at ESA BIC Bavaria. • Coordination of networks and organisation of conferences on behalf of ESA,

European Commission and GSA.

The company was set up in 2004 by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and with support of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs at the prominent aerospace location Oberpfaffenhofen, located near Munich, Germany.

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Copernicus MastersThe European Earth Monitoring Competition1 June – 15 September 2013

www.copernicus-masters.com

Copernicus will provide accurate, timely and easily accessible information

• To improve the management of the environment • To understand and mitigate the effects of climate change • To ensure safety and security for the European citizens.

Copernicus will consist of• Five families of dedicated satellites (Sentinels) specifically for the

operational needs of the Copernicus programme. The Sentinels will be launched from 2013.

• Missions from other space agencies, called Contributing Missions - already providing a wealth of data for Copernicus services

• The In situ Component which focuses on data acquired by a multitude of sensors on the ground, at sea or in the air.

Copernicus – Global Monitoring for Environment and Security


Copernicus Services

Copernicus is all about delivering products and services to manage and protect the environment and natural resources, and ensure civil security, e.g.:

• air-quality forecasting • flood warnings• early detection of drought and desertification • early warnings of severe weather• oil-spill detection and drift prediction• sea-water quality• crop analysis• forest monitoring• land-use change• food security and humanitarian

aid

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Copernicus Masters – The European Earth Monitoring Competition

Is awarding prizes to innovative solutions for business and society based on Earth observation data.

The Copernicus Masters Competition aims at:• Creating awareness for the European Copernicus

programme • Fostering product development and

entrepreneurship in Europe• Supporting the entrepreneurship in Europe incl. the

creation of new ventures being supported in the ESA Business Incubation Centers (BICs)


Partners 2013


GET INSPIRED

Submissions are welcome in any of the following application fields:


Challenges

In the 2013 Copernicus Masters competition, participants can choose from nine challenges:


Technical Support

Cash Prizes

Business Incubation

Coaching

data packagesPublicity

Total value of prize pool:

EUR 350,000

GET REWARDED


Overall Winner – The Copernicus Master

Will be selected from among the winners of each challenge (except the winner of the Best Service Challenge and the GEO Illustration Challenge).

Prize• Additional cash prize of EUR

20,000• Substantial satellite data quota

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ESA App Challenge

The ESA App Challenge searches for applications ideas for using Copernicus on mobile devices.

• Proposals shall address one or more Copernicus main thematic areas.• The submission of the application should consist of a base app containing

info and news on Copernicus• In addition to concepts for new mobile apps it is also possible to submit

ideas of how to extend existing apps by adding Copernicus data (e.g. enriching weather apps by providing information on location-based UV-radiation).

• Submission is open for all mobile operating systems.

PrizeThe winner will be rewarded with a cash prize of EUR 10,000 as well as the chance to get his idea further developed in one of the seven ESA Business Incubation Centres (BICs). The incubation package has a value of up to EUR 60,000.


ESA App Challenge – The Winning Idea 2012

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• Satellite radar images in urban areas require in-situ verification due to backscatter

• In GEO-PICTURES, AnsuR created the smartphone app ASIGN, which captures and sends reliably geo-tagged and time-stamped images to UNOSAT at CERN

• Announced on Facebook, the app was successful in helping the UN produce better flood maps during the 2011 Thailand floods

Customer Benefit ASIGN’s crowdsourced in-situ photos provide for faster, higher quality remote-sensing products that help save lives, property, costs, and infrastructure.

ASIGN / GEO PICTURES - Crowdsourced, in-situ visual Copernicus validation


Seize the opportunity to meet with like-minded people, create mobile applications using satellite data, and gain insight into ESA's work.

Location: ESA ESRIN in Frascati near Rome, ItalyRegistration is open until 25 March 2013 at www.app-camp.eu


ESA App Camp – In Support of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

http://www.app-camp.eu/

EUROPEAN SATELLITE NAVIGATIONCOMPETITION 20131 April – 30 June 3013

www.galileo-masters.eu

About GALILEO

Galileo in short: Precision, Availability, Coverage

• Precision: In a combined GPS-Galileo use (compared to GPS by itself) the higher number of satellites available to the user will offer higher precision. From most locations, six to eight Galileo satellites will be visible which, in combination with GPS signals, will allow positions to be determined up to within a few centimetres.

• Availability: The high number of satellites will also improve the availability of the signals in high-rise cities, where buildings can obstruct signals from satellites that are low on the horizon.

• Coverage: Galileo will also provide a better coverage at high latitudes than GPS, thanks to the location and inclination of the satellites. This will be particularly interesting for Northern Europe.

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ESNC Mission

• Enhancing public awareness of the manifold application potential of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)

• Promoting the use of the technology for new application fields

• Supporting entrepreneurs and start-up companies

• Cross-regional match-making between industry, research and politics to foster the realisation of the awarded ideas

• Strengthening international collaboration with particular regard to the development of applications and services made possible by the future European satellite navigation system Galileo


Key Facts

Since 2004 the ESNC is an exceptional source of innovation with …

• more than 6,000 participants

• almost 2,000 submitted ideas

• 171 awarded winners

• more than 60 partners worldwide


ESNC Global Network


as of 2013


Confirmed for 2013 e.g.: Flanders/Belgium, The Netherlands, North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany

Partner Regions 2012

ESNC Partners 2013


Prize Pool

BECOME THE GALILEO MASTERGET EUR 20,000


Fields of Application


Seamless Indoor NavigationOverall Winner | GALILEO Master 2012


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• Accurate indoor navigation with a smartphone

• Ultra Low Frequency Magnetic Field Communication

• Works with the phone’s three-axis hall sensor

• Indoor navigation, access control, personalized advertisements, guidance

• GNSS support for tunnels and densely constructed areas

• Ranges from millimetres to several meters, very low-cost infrastructure

The Travel Time Platform –Time is More Valuable than DistanceRegional Winner 2012 | United Kingdom


• Delivers locations based on travel time

• First to market, initial customers secured

• Launched in the UK

• Successful trials in nine other countries

• Uses real-time and historic GNSS data

• Adds the value of GNSS data to location-based information

© 2012 iGeolise

GeoB2B - A Mobile Economic ObservatoryRegional Winner 2012 | Catalonia / Spain


• Where can I place my business?

• What’s going on around my business?

• GeoB2B combines data sources such as information from fieldwork, open data by public administration and sensor grids

• Provides precise terrain-related information on a mobile device

• Mobile application detects business opportunities wherever you are

© 2012 eixos

WANTED - Innovative Ideas for Satellite Navigation Applications


Timeline Submission Phase 1 April – 30 June 2013More Information on www.galileo-masters.eu


Contact

Space 4 Your Business

Ms Ulrike DanielsBusiness [email protected]

Anwendungszentrum GmbH OberpfaffenhofenFriedrichshafener Straße 182205 Gilching / Germany


www.copernicus-masters.comwww.app-camp.com www.galileo-masters.eu

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ESA Innovation Competitions 2013 - AZO