The 2009 European Satellite Navigation Competition was a special one for Taiwan. For, it was this year that saw about 48 entries from the East Asian island. Not just that, a project by the Industrial Technology Research Institute South (ITRI) titled ‘Shadow Guide’ came second in the prestigious competition. Nearly 290 entries from around the world took part in the competition, of which Taiwan’s consisted of over 16%, which was the highest when compared to any participating nation.
The competition was first started in 2004 and encourages innovations in the satellite navigation applications sector and aims at merging it with Galileo, the European Satellite Navigation System which is an alternative to the Global Positioning System. According to the Taiwan Times, the Shadow Guide is ‘a guiding solution to help people enjoy their trip’. It is a navigational device that can supposedly monitor over several kilometres. The device can also assist multiple users of a group to maintain communication with each other. It is small enough to fit into a box of the size of a wrist watch and could be employed to assist in leisure trips in the future.
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