High Accuracy Navigation for the Mass Market - the FLAMINGO Initiative

Abstract

FLAMINGO is developing a service to facilitate for high accuracy positioning in smartphones and IOT devices. Currently, smartphones can only achieve accuracies of several meters at best, and IOT systems desire low power, connectivity, and a highly accurate location. FLAMINGO will deliver a service that targets sub-meter accuracies in both client- and server-side positioning scenarios. Through this, a new suite of location-based applications will be enabled, that were before infeasible, as well as enhancing existing location products. Substantial server infrastructure is developed to remove user GNSS knowledge needs, where an Application Program Interface (API) is provided to simplify integration. Modified PPP and RTK processing procedures are used to provide the high accuracy positioning.