TTS Italia Handbook 2006

TELESPAZIO
The Company
Telespazio, Finmeccanica/Alcatel company, is one of the main world-wide players in satellite
management and control, and in services for Earth observation, for Navigation and for integrated and
value added connectivity, leveraging on its technological competences, its facilities, the participation in
the main European Programmes (i.e. Cosmo SkyMed and Galileo). Its principal customers are national
and international space agencies, offices and local administrations, public and private
Telecommunication firms, television broadcasters, transport and distribution providers, University and
research centres. Telespazio offers public agencies, government and private companies, integrated
solutions and services for different types of satellite applications.
ITS Expertise & Solutions
In the field of ITS, Telespazio activities are focused on the following key aspects:
Convergence between telematics, satellite navigation and mobile communication;
Development and provision of location based applications and services for transport and mobility
sectors;
ITS exploitation towards the introduction and use of EGNOS (short term) and Galileo (mid term)
technologies.
Telespazio has developed a platform, the Navigation & Infomobility Service Centre, for provision of a
wide class of value added positioning services targeting professional, institutional and business
markets. The Service Centre for Transport by Telespazio is a leading centre in space systems and
satellite applications and provides various lines of location based services for transport and mobility
applications, oriented to different market sectors:
Fleet Management, Localisation and Tracking
Electronic Fee Collection and access control
“Special Traffic” classes management (such as Heavy Good Vehicles, Dangerous Good Vehicles,
Emergency Service Fleet, Mobile Workforces)
Traffic Flow monitoring and data delivery
Information Service
Emergency Assistance
Safety & Security
Multimodal Freight Transport and Supply Chain Management.
The Telespazio Service Centre is ready to operate with EGNOS/Galileo. Moreover, thanks to its
flexible, standards and open architecture, it is exploitable towards the integration of new contents for
value added services, and for allowing user access through different technologies.
References:
Head office: 00156 Roma - Via Tiburtina 965 – Italy
Contact person: Antonella Di Fazio
Email: antonella.difazio@telespazio.com Phone: +39.06-40796329 Fax: +39.06-40999333
Website: www.telespazio.it
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