Registration and networking with refreshments

Introduction to CW from David Bartlett, u-blox UK and SIG Champion

Introduction to the event by Location Group SIG Champion Ben Tarlow, Qualcomm Technologies International

Ramsey Faragher, CEO, Focal Point Positioning Ltd.

'Can we trust software we struggle to understand?'

Ramsey's talk will cover how the steady pace of ever-smarter software is being used to overcome some major challenges in positioning and autonomy. With the boom in Deep Neural Networks however comes a significant challenge in being able to understand - and therefore trust - how these systems achieve the results they do. This talk will highlight some of the benefits and challenges that come with increasing the complexity of software and looks at how to use fundamentally opaque "black box" systems within high-integrity, trustable systems.

Mamon Alghananim, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London

'Integrity monitoring for high accuracy positioning'

A case study: Carrier phase-based integrity monitoring for GNSS location-based applications. In his talk Mamon will provide an overview of integrity monitoring high accuracy positioning.

Dr Markus Kuhn, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

'Distance-bounding protocols'

Attacks against card payment systems, door access-control readers and car thefts that involved relaying wireless signals helped to illustrate that, in some applications, authentication protocols not only need to confirm the identity of a communication partner, but also their proximity. Dedicated distance-bounding protocols perform authentication at the speed of light, to provide an upper bound on the distance to the other side. They pose tight latency requirements on communications channels and often require dedicated physical-layer support.

Refreshment break

Eduardo Aldaz Carroll, CTO, Sees.ai

'A new way to fly drones’

In this talk Eduardo will present the technology Sees.ai are developing that enables remote operation of drones from a central control room, facilitating the delivery of drone services at enterprise scale. sees.ai’s solution combines highly-automated drones on the client site with human pilots working beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) in a central control room. The result is more consistent, more immediate and more efficient - and hence radically more scaleable - than current state-of-the-art (VLOS). This ‘augmented human’ approach is also the fastest route to full autonomy.

Chris Farrow, Technical Services Manager, Chronos

'Getting the Right Time Right’

This talk will consider global reliance on a coded radio signal that was state-of-the-art when it was specified in the 1970s as it becomes trivially spoofable today with battery powered COTS hardware & software. Spoofing GPS to fool location & timing receivers is nothing new, but how can we engineer the very technology that enables the spoofers to build defences that protect critical infrastructure?

Closing remarks provided by Location Group SIG Champion Bob Cockshott of The KTN

Delegates are then invited to the networking drinks reception of the CW Founder Dinner.