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Spaniard wins European Inventor of the Year Award for cutting-edge sat-nav technology
27/06/2017
THE latest European Inventor of the Year Award has gone to a 38-year-old Spaniard for his creation which could put the GPS in the shade for geo-tagging accuracy.
José Ángel Ávila (pictured), from Madrid, works as an engineer for the European Space Agency (ESA) alongside top physics experts such as Lionel Ries, from Belgium; Laurent Lestarquit and Jean-Luc Issler, from France's National Space Studies Centre (CNES), and Günter Heinde from the University of Munich in Germany.
Ávila and his team have created a radio signal for the Galileo satellite navigation system which has beaten France's Sylviane Müller with her pioneering treatment for reducing pain and slowing the process of the autoimmune condition Lupus, and Italy's Giuseppe Remuzzi, Carlamaria Zoja and Ariela Benigni with their treatment for chronic kidney disease.
“Galileo will be a fundamental contribution to the future of Europe and the world as a whole,” Ávila said when he picked up his prize in Venice, Italy.
“The navigation services Galileo will supply will be independent of other world powers, and its receivers will work in areas where other systems currently cannot get a signal.
“We've shown we're able to demonstrate that Europe can develop a sat-nav system better than the USA's legacy,” Lestarquit, on the team receiving the award, added.
Chairman of the European Patents Office – which grants the awards – Benoît Battistelli says the winners and runners-up have 'not only contributed to technological development, but also created a mamor social and financial impact'.
Ávila's invention comprises two flexible and high-accuracy radio waves, which took 15 years to develop, and which will give the Galileo system – a direct competitor with the GPS that will be in full operation by the year 2020 – a level of precision and clarity as yet unprecedented in geo-localisation technology.
The radio signal does not cause interference with other sat-nav systems, and is inspired on the GPS, designed in the USA; the GLONASS, created in Russia, and he Beidou, from China – but vastly more sophisticated.
Galileo, with an initial operating capacity of 18 of its 30 satellites in orbit, is the only sat-nav system which does not have a military origin – it is a civil invention, and will give Europe full independence from other world powers in this area.
The European Inventor of the Year Award does not come with any money – its value lies purely in the prestige of having won it.
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THE latest European Inventor of the Year Award has gone to a 38-year-old Spaniard for his creation which could put the GPS in the shade for geo-tagging accuracy.
José Ángel Ávila (pictured), from Madrid, works as an engineer for the European Space Agency (ESA) alongside top physics experts such as Lionel Ries, from Belgium; Laurent Lestarquit and Jean-Luc Issler, from France's National Space Studies Centre (CNES), and Günter Heinde from the University of Munich in Germany.
Ávila and his team have created a radio signal for the Galileo satellite navigation system which has beaten France's Sylviane Müller with her pioneering treatment for reducing pain and slowing the process of the autoimmune condition Lupus, and Italy's Giuseppe Remuzzi, Carlamaria Zoja and Ariela Benigni with their treatment for chronic kidney disease.
“Galileo will be a fundamental contribution to the future of Europe and the world as a whole,” Ávila said when he picked up his prize in Venice, Italy.
“The navigation services Galileo will supply will be independent of other world powers, and its receivers will work in areas where other systems currently cannot get a signal.
“We've shown we're able to demonstrate that Europe can develop a sat-nav system better than the USA's legacy,” Lestarquit, on the team receiving the award, added.
Chairman of the European Patents Office – which grants the awards – Benoît Battistelli says the winners and runners-up have 'not only contributed to technological development, but also created a mamor social and financial impact'.
Ávila's invention comprises two flexible and high-accuracy radio waves, which took 15 years to develop, and which will give the Galileo system – a direct competitor with the GPS that will be in full operation by the year 2020 – a level of precision and clarity as yet unprecedented in geo-localisation technology.
The radio signal does not cause interference with other sat-nav systems, and is inspired on the GPS, designed in the USA; the GLONASS, created in Russia, and he Beidou, from China – but vastly more sophisticated.
Galileo, with an initial operating capacity of 18 of its 30 satellites in orbit, is the only sat-nav system which does not have a military origin – it is a civil invention, and will give Europe full independence from other world powers in this area.
The European Inventor of the Year Award does not come with any money – its value lies purely in the prestige of having won it.
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