New needs, rapidly growing markets

Increasing requirementts show up in the fields of mobility, security an environmental protection :

• reduce energy consumption

• optimize the safety of people (e.g.elderly people, car riders), protect privacy

• aid handicapped people (e.g.blind people)

• harness new marketing modes

• ddeliver a useful information consistent with navigation precision

• increase road safety

• optimize the management of land ways

Answering important society stakes, especially in urban areas, they generate new needs that create rapidly growing markets.

New sectors to cover, e.g.

• real navigation capacities for road transport for a smart optimization of fuel consumption, not based on top speed limitation.

• optimization of ship routes according to winds and streams

• increasing the reactivity of relief in case of accident (road of health)

• consumer market

Progress in « traditionnals » sectors (especially naval and aeronautic)

• miniaturisation

• increased integration of varied systems

• use of incr´easingly richer data bases

• intégrity, safety

• precision

• human factors