The Aerospace and Defence Forum 2016 emphasized the emergence of a digital representation of the physical world driven by three key trends: ubiquitous sensing, connectivity, and localization. This transition involves the collection of vast amounts of data, with a significant portion being digitized and linked to IP addresses. The future calls for closer integration of telecommunications, sensing, and positioning technologies.

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Forum 2016
An Industry Event Hosted by National Instruments
Royal Berkshire Conference Centre
Reading, UK
"Navigating in a Digital “New World”:
How Ubiquitous Localization (GNSS), Sensing (IOT) and
Communications (5G) are mapping our planet"
Dr. ing. Marco Lisi
Manager and Space Scientist

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Summary
•We are at the dawn of the discovery of a “New World”: not
a virtual one, but the digital representation, in all its minute
details, of our physical world, of planet Earth;
•This epochal transition in the history of mankind is being
triggered by three main technological trends:
1. Ubiquitous Sensing
2. Ubiquitous Connectivity
3. Ubiquitous Localization and Timing
•Enormous amounts of data are being collected daily and
at an exponentially increasing rate. 99% of them is
digitized and 50% has an associated IP address;
•We are going for a detailed digital mapping of the world
around us. It is an entirely New World…

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Our Digital World in Figures

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IoT Exponential Growth

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IoT in our Everyday Life

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The World, yesterday…

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…the World, today…

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…the World, tomorrow.
Miniaturized
Atomic Clocks
Miniaturized
Inertial
Platforms
Miniaturized
GNSS
Receivers
Miniaturized RFIDs
(Smart Dust)
Smartphones

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5G: the Next Wave in Mobile Communications

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5G Infrastructure Architecture

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5G and the Internet of Things

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GNSS Multi-Constellation Scenario

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The European GNSS: Galileo

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Galileo System Architecture

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Galileo FOC Satellites

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Clocks Accuracy Evolution

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Galileo On-board Atomic Clock
"Passive Hydrogen Maser" (PHM): 1 second every 3 milion years!

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GNSS: a Constellation of Ultra Stable Clocks

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Galileo as a worldwide UTC reference
UTC: UNIVERSAL TIME COORDINATED

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GNSS Timing and Critical Infrastructures

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Penetration of GNSS Devices

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Towards a Brave New Digital World

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More real than reality itself?

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The Global PNT Infrastructure
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The Global Systems of Systems Infrastructure
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SensingTelecomms

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Conclusion: Ubiquity, Integration & Fusion
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The future asks for an ever closer integration and
fusion of Telecommunications, Sensing and
Positioning, Navigation and Timing applications.

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Aerospace and Defence
Forum 2016
An Industry Event Hosted by National Instruments
Royal Berkshire Conference Centre
Reading, UK
THANK YOU
{marco.lisi@ieee.org}