Comments - Firms chosen for Galileo run-off - Gaia Community2024-03-28T10:19:49Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A34351&xn_auth=noMasterful win
The competitio…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2018-11-26:5313775:Comment:345422018-11-26T08:35:05.030ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The competition, formerly known as the Galileo Masters, is run in a number of mostly European regions, and this year included Taiwan and…</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The competition, formerly known as the Galileo Masters, is run in a number of mostly European regions, and this year included Taiwan and Australia.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>As well as winning the overall competition, garnering the title of Galileo Master, Sci-Tech's idea won the UK's national competition, called the UK SatNav Challenge, which is run by the Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre (HBIC).</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Galileo Master prize includes 20,000 euros in cash and six months' business "incubation" at HBIC under the auspices of the GSA, the European regulatory agency for the new sat-nav technology.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>It also won a new prize offered by the GSA for the most promising idea that will utilise the globally integrated sat-nav services provided by Galileo, GPS, and the Russian GLONASS system - a prize that allows a further 12 months of business incubation anywhere in Europe.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sci-Tech's idea was born at a meeting of tech-minded yachtsmen in a bar, Sci-Tech co-director Peter Hall says, who wondered why a sat-nav-enabled system for people lost at sea wasn't on the market.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"There are a number of devices on the market that use RFID to say that someone has gone out of range - you know that they're there, and when they're not there you assume they've gone over the side," Mr Hall told the BBC.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"But none of them track where the person is in the water. You know where they were, but if you're in a strong-running tide they're not going to be there when you go back, they'll be somewhere else," he added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sci-Tech's approach is to use a device attached to a lifejacket that, when wet, taps into Galileo or other global satellite positioning networks. Upon acquiring a location, the coordinates are sent by radio broadcast to the boat or rescue vessels.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With the position of the person in the water, Mr Hall says, the on-board part of the system can guide the vessel back to the person by feeding data into existing, commercial maritime navigation systems.<br/></span></p>
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