• Safety of Driver
• Safety of Cargo
• Timely delivery
• Fleet Maintenance
• Reduction of Paper work
• Commitment on a realistic time for Delivery
• Trips/ Milk run  completed for a day by a petroleum tanker
• Dispatch based on real time location information
• Pilferage
• Alarming the Control room during exceptions
• Operation Costs

• Hijacking
• Time Window for Deliveries
• Accidents
• High fleet Maintenance cost
• High manual efforts
• Black smoke emission, overspeed and fines
• Unhappy customers
• Route Violations unknown

• Hijacking
• Real time tracking
• Rushing rescue team during accidents in the sea
• Fuel consumption
• Real time Dispatch
• Violations

Dr. Nitin K. Tripathi

Asso Prof of Geoinformatics in AIT
Thailand

Hospital Emergency Response System using Internet GIS, Vehicle Tracking System and RFID The integration of Internet and Geographic Information Systems has revolutionized the way people exchange location-based information with each other in real-time. The traditional emergency-response systems prevailing in hospitals take a lot of time from diagnosis to the treatment of the patient in an emergency, like sending ambulances, recording the symptoms of the patients, and getting medical history for deciding the course of action to be taken. The obvious delay increases the probability of losing the life of patients.

An Internet-based emergency-response system for hospitals has been conceptualized and developed, that exchanges real-time incident information among victims, physicians and hospital emergency-response system staff to work efficiently. The use of technologies such as GPS devices and RFID tags helps hospital staff to make such arrangements for the well-equipped ambulance that is nearer to the incident location and continuously tracking the patient on the way to the hospital. The real-time maps help the staff tracking the incident location and the patient continuously. The real-time exchange of incident information and patient’s medical history enable the physician and emergency staff to make appropriate arrangements at the hospital in advance, while the patient is on the way. This saves a great amount of time and ultimately, the life of the patient. This also saves the human resources at the hospital by providing all the information regarding patient’s medical history on-line, without pre-operation diagnosis.


Dr. Rejean Simard
Director - International Business Development
GeoGeny® Asia Sdn. Bhd.
Malaysia

Deployment of practical and efficient Mobile Coordination Centers using open and interoperable C2i and C4i2STAR software. The presentation will highlight some basic functionality of simple Command and Control C2i system readily deployed over existing communication networks such as GSM, GPRS or both. While being very efficient in operation, their simplicity and well proven interoperability allow mobile coordination activities to be conducted with minimum development effort and costs almost anywhere in the world using GPS mobile phone terminals and Google Map interface.

More on high-end technology (similar to NATO standards of interoperability), the presentation will highlight additional functionalities of open structure C4i2STAR software normally used by military and police forces with their existing patrol terminals and secured communication networks being analog or digital such as TETRA.

The presentation will show some examples of GeoGeny® C2i / C4i2STAR based coordination projects as conducted by the Swiss police for security of large public events such as International Football games and the Montreux International Jazz Festival in Switzerland.


Mark White
Founder & CEO
Locatrix Communications
Australia

Beyond Navigation – Mobile Location meets the world
The use of location information to create and enhance mobile content experiences is an incredible opportunity for mobile network operators to create value for their subscribers, and for location-based services to truly become mainstream consumer products.  But it is more than just points  on a map; to create truly engaging subscriber experiences applications need to tap into the context of the handset user and their real-world social network.  In this talk, Locatrix CEO Mark White will describe the innovations his company has successfully launched in Australia with Telstra, and provide a glimpse into the types of services which will hit consumer handsets in the next few years.


Raymond Chong
Chief Technical Officer
Global Telematics

Comprehensive Haulage Fleet Management.

Simple Vehicle Location Tracking using GPS and GSM can no longer satisfied the requirement of haulage fleet operators. Fleet operators want more automatic updated information and better control of their fleet. In-Vehicle Data Terminal for Driver to Sign in/out using RFID/MYCARD. Record of when and where and how much diesel is purchased. Instantaneous diesel usage, tank level, Job dispatching, job status available on-line. Time taken, distance travelled, fuel consumption, vehicle running cost and driver salary computed per delivery performed automatically.

Trailer Recognition, Management, Optimization, Anti-theft System are much needed. Driver behaviour such as speeding, excessive idling, engine rpm, engine temperature, braking and acceleration and banking, route deviation, un-authorised stops, fuel pilferage can be monitored. All these information are now available on-line. The next big question is “How to use all these previously unavailable data?” Fleet operators must do the maths of what new software tools to invest and how much extra profit can be realised.


Etienne Besnier
Regional Sales Manager Asia-Pacific
Mobile Devices
Singapore

Personal Navigation Devices, What is next ?
PND market still growing very fast however PND will not be replaced by GPS Smartphones, they will rather be complementary. PND competition is tough, PNDs have to offer more in order to differentiate and Connected services is the main path. The challenges is how to move from low priced and no monthly fee PNDs to higher prices and recursive payments ? How will new devices look like to address this challenge ? A real open platform with a community of developers is the way.

Keynote Speakers


Stanley Ng
Chief Executive Officer
MapKing International Limited
Hong Kong

Abstract
It doesn’t matter you name it “Data Revolution” or “Data Evolution”, live and location based data are emerging into your smart phone, car navigator or on your monitor screen in our region in these years.

United Airlines started sending out emails telling the local weather forecast of the destination since a couple of months ago. The Hong Kong Observatory provides local flooding warning to field workers on requests. Transport authorities of Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong provides live traffic camera broadcasts and colored the live traffic congestion of major trunk roads on internet, MapKing started the first Real Time Traffic Routing version in Singapore. These are all cases that data revolution, or data evolution, are emerging in different cities in Asia.

Your driving experience changes as well. For car parking spaces, Taipei city government started providing, again real time, available car parking spaces in car parks, even only some car parks joined the broadcast scheme. It is expected more and more car drivers will enjoy similar data services via their mobile phones or navigators in major cities in the region, and again, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur car drivers would enjoy these earlier than others. But some drivers would complain “your live car park spaces data is not accurate!”. In the most advanced APEC country, Japan, a county government started last year not only telling mobile phone users availability of car parking spaces, but crime figures including how many car stolen of a particular car park, resulting from a police and local government joint project.

Stanley Ng also opines that, in our region, radio based TMC (Traffic Message Channel) would not be as popular as in Europe. He will share the key factors outlines the recent data development trend as well as some of the limitations.

INNOVATIVE GNSS/WIFI HYBRIDIZATION FOR INDOOR/OUTDOOR LOCATION
S. Terrenoir, J. Chouki, B. Godefroy, S.Leroy
Pole Star, Toulouse, France
Abstract

Even though technology for indoor positioning systems, either based on improved GNSS receivers or on wireless transmitters, is already widely documented and working products are available, the awaited commercial breakthrough is yet to happen. Improvements must still be brought to these systems and technologies, not only to increase their performances in terms of accuracy and availability, but to make them more easily deployable and configurable, more reliable and more cost-efficient. Moreover, most indoor-capable positioning systems are specifically designed for one type of environment (indoor or outdoor), and offer low performances outside a predefined and restricted area. For instance, typical professional Wi-Fi or RFID based location systems only work in equipped areas and need heavy calibration, whereas hybrid GPS/MEMS location devices have much difficulty following accurately a long walk inside a building.

To address these issues Pole Star has developed a tightly hybridized Wi-Fi/GNSS positioning technology, as a software component for PDAs and smartphones. This product localizes and tracks the user indoors in Wi- Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g) equipped buildings using the already installed, off-the-shelf, communication infrastructure. It combines information from Wi-Fi access points and GNSS satellites to achieve indoor and outdoor localization with excellent performances, and provide the user with seamless transition between positioning in and out of buildings. The tight hybridization algorithm that is implemented decreases the number of access points needed indoors and reduces the impact of masked GPS satellites and multi-paths on the computed location.

This particular design makes the solution use very few resources from its embedded host, providing a great engine for location based applications in a variety of environments, like museums, hospitals, enterprise or university campuses. The deployment cost is minimal: no fingerprinting (extensive collection of Wi-Fi reception data) is required, and the existing WLAN infrastructure is preserved. If a dedicated wireless network has to be deployed, there is no need to connect each A.P to the network: the solution only uses the emitted signal characteristics.

This paper presents the general architecture of the solution that uses standard, low-cost Wi-Fi hardware, and mass market GPS chipsets, and its deployment process. The performances of the solution are evaluated and analyzed, in the context of the test set-up deployed at the Cité de l’Espace (Toulouse, France). This museum is a great test environment for the solution, as it offers constraining propagation conditions with many internal structures and electronic equipment, and is a typical applicative environment for tourism services. Tests performed in this environment ensure reliable, high accuracy performances in future deployments.


Arnout Desmet
MD South and Southeast Asia
Tele Atlas Asia-Pacific Pvt Ltd
Singapore

The role of digital maps in driving the future of LBS
The evolution of maps from paper-based documents to the interactive, digital, pocket-sized and information-rich tools that they are today has been driven largely by the confluence of three factors: digitization, global positioning systems and wireless.

This has enabled maps to be combined with software that can work out the optimum route from A to B – yielding a system that would not just guide drivers, but help them find desired locations with superior ease and accuracy.

Perhaps the most exciting combination of maps and technology is the ability to yield customizable content. Imagine a day when we will be able to talk to a map, ask it questions, and it will answer in text or speech. Maps will help us find what we want, provide the input we need to make informed choices, and help us determine the best mode of transportation.

Increasingly, maps will provide information beyond that which is purely navigational – for example, that there are ten spaces left in the nearest parking garage and the special of the day at your chosen restaurant is curry fish head. Or, imagine you would like a nice dessert. Where can you go nearby? There are three places within a ten-minute walk – click for further information, and the map will further advise you and take you there. Furthermore, imagine a map that can show you what the route looks like, and what the destination looks like, all in 3-D and with texture and color.

Such personalization for “find” applications and services is likely to pave the way for: Pedestrian navigation – in its most basic form, users gain access to maps and directions optimized for foot travel, but creative applications such as Geominder also include the ability to attach “reminders” to certain locations, reminding you to buy milk when you pass a convenience store on the way home after work, for example.

Social networking – in the wireless extension of this red-hot trend, users can share their whereabouts with friends, and determine by simply looking on a digital map, for example, where people have gathered on a Friday night instead of dialing down a list of numbers to find them.

Throughout history, maps have been – and will continue to be – an intrinsic part of the human experience, a primary means of connecting with the world around us. Tele Atlas’ ultimate vision of maps is that of interactive portals which allow users to explore and find their way around their worlds, according to their preferences. As maps continue to evolve in functionality, we can look forward to them enriching the lives of individuals and communities in a broad array of new, exciting and dynamic ways, with superior mapping data as the foundation.


Ahmed Ali Malik
Manager, Business Development
Join Technology Limited
Hong Kong
New Trends in GPS Vehicle Navigation

The future of GPS in Vehicles is moving in two different directions. The already mature market of the west is making there maps more realistic with 3D graphics and adding more value by adding connectivity in GPS devices using online traffic data, location based advertisement and buddy tracking. Where as the new emerging GPS markets of Asia, Middle-East and Africa are moving towards low cost eMap based GPS using raster images and may be more better to call as Car MP4 devices with a tourist multimedia GPS rather then a turn-by-turn navigation map.


IIan Reiter
Senior Product Manger
DigitalGlobe
USA

There has been success with device manufacturers such as Garmin and Lowrance that have created handheld devices that incorporate satellite imagery and geospatial information for everyday consumers. More recently, satellite imagery has moved into the wireless market as devices are no longer based on single location and single use platforms and are infiltrating cell phones and in-dash navigation devices. With recent surveys and reports predicting 2008 to be a record year for the GPS market, where do geospatial products and information fit in to this growing demand? And perhaps more importantly, how can companies providing these services and products capitalize on the opportunity?

With the whole world covered with up to date high-resolution imagery, consumers can use the imagery to safely and confidently explore unfamiliar territory with context and frame of reference. Innovative companies like Garmin and Bushnell are manufacturing devices equipped with satellite imagery to provide guidance for marine and outdoor enthusiasts. Soon, GPS enabled mobile devices will have imagery as a standard feature (like the iPhone), which will eventually make imagery a cost of entry as more companies offer handheld navigation. The revenue opportunities range from making single devices more valuable with imagery (Garmin) to ad revenues enticing more advertisers (amAze).

DigitalGlobe’s successful partnerships with Garmin, Lowrance, Bushnell and amAze to bring high-resolution satellite imagery to information devices, applications and mobile services, give me the ability to provide invaluable insight into addressing these challenges and opportunities head on.


Assoc Prof Goh Pong Chai
Chief Executive Officer
AGIS Pte Ltd
Singapore

Location Equals Map?

Much had been prophesied about the foray of Location-Based Services (LBS) into our routine lives. Hitherto there had been no phenomenal successes in LBS yet. In many ways, this may be attributed to widespread misunderstanding of what location really means. The world got a glimpse of what location could mean when Google made available detailed worldwide satellite images of the earth. It created much needed awareness. Since then, more interests had been generated when GPS-enabled devices gained widespread use in low-cost navigation devices. Taking the cue from this, major players in mobile devices such as Nokia and Tom Tom took strategic positions in acquiring map assets. The stage seems set for a new paradigm in LBS. Only history will tell if such huge gambits by the big players are indeed on the right track. But we may be able to get a glimpse of the future of LBS if we have better appreciation of what a location really means to the man on the street. Is LBS mere hype or could it really impact our lives?


Sylvain Leroy
Chief Representative - Asia
Pole Star
Hong Kong

INNOVATIVE GNSS/WIFI HYBRIDIZATION FOR INDOOR/OUTDOOR LOCATION

Even though technology for indoor positioning systems, either based on improved GNSS receivers or on wireless transmitters, is already widely documented and working products are available, the awaited commercial breakthrough is yet to happen. Improvements must still be brought to these systems and technologies, not only to increase their performances in terms of accuracy and availability, but to make them more easily deployable and configurable, more reliable and more cost-efficient.

Moreover, most indoor-capable positioning systems are specifically designed for one type of environment (indoor or outdoor), and offer low performances outside a predefined and restricted area. For instance, typical professional Wi-Fi or RFID based location systems only work in equipped areas and need heavy calibration, whereas hybrid GPS/MEMS location devices have much difficulty following accurately a long walk inside a building.

To address these issues Pole Star has developed a tightly hybridized Wi-Fi/GNSS positioning technology, as a software component for PDAs and smartphones. This product localizes and tracks the user indoors in Wi-Fi equipped buildings using the already installed, off-the-shelf, communication infrastructure. It combines information from Wi-Fi access points and GNSS satellites to achieve indoor and outdoor localization with excellent performances, and provide the user with seamless transition between positioning in and out of buildings. The tight hybridization algorithm that is implemented decreases the number of access points needed indoors and reduces the impact of masked GPS satellites and multi-paths on the computed location.

This particular design makes the solution use very few resources from its embedded host, providing a great engine for location based applications in a variety of environments, like museums, hospitals, enterprise or university campuses. The deployment cost is minimal: no fingerprinting (extensive collection of Wi-Fi reception data) is required, and the existing WLAN infrastructure is preserved. If a dedicated wireless network has to be deployed, there is no need to connect each A.P to the network: the solution only uses the emitted signal characteristics.

This paper presents the general architecture of the solution that uses standard, low-cost Wi-Fi hardware, and mass market GPS chipsets, and its deployment process. The performances of the solution are evaluated and analyzed, in the context of the test set-up deployed at the Cité de l’Espace (Toulouse, France). This museum is a great test environment for the solution, as it offers constraining propagation conditions with many internal structures and electronic equipment, and is a typical applicative environment for tourism services. Tests performed in this environment ensure reliable, high accuracy performances in future deployments.


Robert Lorimer
Managing Partner
Position One Consulting
Australia

GNSS Market Research in Asia
The presentation will talk on the overview of global GNSS market research to 2025 and describe additional GNSS research being conducted in Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, India, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.