How to improve geolocation thanks to egeniouss x JULIA ?

Geolocation in city centers can be imprecise and fluctuating. Has it ever happened to you to lose your navigation track or make a couple of back-and-forth before heading to the right direction? If satellite-based navigation and positioning can be unstable, it can be due to urban canyons: high buildings scrambling satellite signals. While satellite-based geolocation works well in rural areas, it is worth adding a second source of geolocation in the cities, and that’s what the European project egeniouss is doing ! 

JULIA and egeniouss consortium partners have met on Thursday 20 February 2025 to explore synergies and potential collaboration.  If JULIA promotes the benefits of satellite data for transport and mobility, egeniouss aims at improving geolocation by providing a second source of data in urban areas. It brings a visual location in complement to the satellite one, resulting in an improved accuracy of up to 10cm. Both systems combined, geolocation becomes more reliable even in difficult environments! 

Solutions developed 

Similar to the JULIA solutions, the European GNSS Galileo and its augmentations, such as the High Accuracy Service (HAS), are the backbone of egeniouss solutions.  To ensure a very high quality, solutions include highly technical components as machine learning, geodata, cloud operations, a platform-independent API, crowd sourcing, geodesy, photogrammetry and computer vision,!  The solutions are developed as an application-independent service, advantageous for a wide array of location-dependent or location-reliant applications.  

During the project time, egeniouss will demonstrate its performance and versatility with three complementary use cases in terms of reliability, accuracy and latency criteria: –  

• smartphone-based surveying with the industry-leading app QField 

• drone delivery beyond visual line of sight and in urban areas  

• cycling navigation in a dense city environment. 

Sister project cooperation 

Partners from JULIA and Egeniouss have found lot of overlaps during the meeting, The ensuing discussion was enthusiastic as coordinators spotted potential synergies between the two projects for technological exchanges on applications development or common participation to major events.