TAPAS • Developed in collaboration between SDFE, DTU Space and City of Aarhus • An open research and development platform for precise positioning • TAPAS takes the research out of the laboratory and offers test opportunities in a reality scenario in a densely populated urban area

1. Testbed in Aarhus for Precision positioning
and Autonomous Systems (TAPAS)
Martin Skjold Grøntved,
Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency

2. TAPAS
• Developed in collaboration between SDFE,
DTU Space and City of Aarhus
• An open research and development platform
for precise positioning
• TAPAS takes the research out of the
laboratory and offers test opportunities in a
reality scenario in a densely populated urban
area

3. New societal demands and
opportunities
• Greater demands for an efficient and
sustainable society
• Technological achievements create new
opportunities
• TAPAS aims to help the society to get optimal
gain from positioning technology

4. Galileo
• More satellites create better access
• A civil system
• New technological possibilities
• Fully operational soon
• Great socio economic potentials
• TAPAS can simulate a future

5. Urban environments and GNSS
• Dense urban areas offer difficult conditions for
satellite navigation signals.
• Tough conditions for using technologies that
depend on precise positioning
• TAPAS will enable you to experiment with
precise positioning applications in Aarhus city
and port

6. TAPAS
• TAPAS consists of a tight network of
reference stations in Aarhus city and port
• TAPAS gives the user security of supply of
accurate positioning data in Aarhus city and
port
• The network will enable you to reach a real
time position at 1cm3 - also in motion

8. Application Potentials
• TAPAS makes it possible to simulate a
future
• Many opportunities for testing smart city
applications that use precise positioning or
autonomy
• Research institutions, companies and
authorities can make use of TAPAS to test
the use of technologies in a reality scenario

9. Project Underway
• Semi-autonomous vehicle, from Conplex
Robotech, will cutt the grass in an Aarhus
church yard
• The machine navigates exclusively on
GNSS data supplemented with correction
data from TAPAS
• The machine will automatically update its
operations in the municipality's operating
software

10. Smart City
• Increased knowledge of how autonomous
vehicles can optimize operations in public
spheres
• How do we obtain the best possible GNSS
infrastructure in urban areas for supporting
the technological potentials
• TAPAS can be testbed for testing and
certifying technologies

11. TAPAS a testplatform for
Hybridization
• We need to think technologies together for
seamless positioning services
• TAPAS is involved in the Danish roll out
plan for 5G
• The City of Aarhus posses open access to a
LoRaWAN network for IoT as well as an
open 3D model of the area

12. The Future
• We believe that accurate positioning will
play a key role in the future societies
• The accurate and dynamic positioning adds
a new aspect to smart city strategies
• TAPAS is a platform where the potential of
accurate positioning can be tested and
documented

13. Questions?