ARGOS - Anti-theft Robust Galileo-based Operational System

The ARGOS (Anti-theft Robust Galileo-based Operational System) project provides a technology and a system to protect valuable transport means from theft, which can be used in a wide set of applications (e.g., autonomous driving, boats, tracking of goods and citizens when natural disasters take place, elderly people assistance, smart-agriculture, citizens security and control).

The aim of the ARGOS project is to implement new Galileo features in tracking for anti-theft protection and develop an innovative board/device with the following objectives: 

• Become a reference low-cost solution to achieve high level anti-theft protection functions
• Develop an innovative technology in vehicle tracking that will benefit from Galileo Open Service – Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) feature to improve the robustness against spoofing attacks, Galileo E1b I/NAV Improvement to increase the accuracy and availability of the position information that is key for the needs of the ARGOS users, embedded encryption capabilities, easy-to-use interface to CAN-Bus for monitoring critical sensors data, and autonomous anomalies detection capabilities (through embedded Machine Learning techniques) to improve accuracy and availability of position information
• Increase Safe Communications Reliability exploiting OSNMA capabilities paired with embedded low-power Encryption Algorithms patented by GEA Space.

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