Large Scale Demonstrators

Large-scale demonstrators (Real Life Testing)

Three large-scale demonstrators (Real Live Testing) in support of sustainable tourism in rural areas address information, location, access and safety needs for tourists in Europe, who wish to visit cultural heritage sites and routes that are off the beaten tourist track.

The three demonstrators will develop and test scalable and transferable concepts for providing mobile services for tourists in close collaboration with local tourism agencies, authorities and businesses in rural areas with valuable but under-exploited cultural heritage.

Generations of projects

In 2011, the first three large-scale demonstrators were launched in support of sustainable tourism in rural areas addressing information, location, access and safety needs for tourists in Europe, who wish to visit cultural heritage sites and routes that are off the beaten tourist track. The three demonstrators have developed and tested scalable and transferable concepts for providing mobile services for tourists in close collaboration with local tourism agencies, authorities and businesses in rural areas with valuable but under-exploited cultural heritage.

In 2012, EMMIA was reinforced by 6 new actions focused on a number of concrete and operational activities with special emphasis on promoting the further use of data and information from Earth monitoring (GMES) and satellite navigation (GNSS), EMMIA Phase II. The actions will, on the one hand, develop and test new voucher schemes aimed at promoting the further use of GMES and GNSS based services in mobile services industries and, on the other hand, implement large-scale demonstrators in support of GMES and GNSS based services by either addressing specific societal challenges or following a broad-based approach in support of new industries driven by GMES and GNSS based service innovation.

Additional actions to further promote the use of innovative GMES and GNSS-based services through large-scale demonstrators were selected in 2013 in fields such as enhanced geological mapping, experimenting with more ecological and environmentally friendly solutions in agriculture or addressing traffic congestion and offering smart mobility solutions in cities.