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CÔTE D’AZUR SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS

A NATURAL PLACE FOR SATNAVACTIVITIES

The Côte d’Azur paves the way for geolocalized services

. With one of the mobile industry’s largestprofessional communities in Europe, the Côted’Azur is often designated as “THE FRENCHWIRELESS REGION”.

. A unique environment to explore the convergingfields of mobile tools and geolocalized services:the region offers a HIGH LEVEL OF EXPERTISEboth in public laboratories and companies in ITrelated Research & Development and Innovationprogrammes.

. A reference for high-value, high-growthcompanies with international activities: theFrench Riviera is one of the first places forinternational R&D projects in France.

. An ideal surrounding with maritime, mountainand urban settings to develop pilot applications,to carry out test phases and pursue a range ofactivities linked to POSITIONING, NAVIGATIONAND TIMING.

. Nice Sophia Antipolis is a MEMBER OF EUROPE’S LARGEST NETWORK FOR SATELLITENAVIGATION, SPANNING 10 HIGH-TECHREGIONS.

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Côte d’Azur SATNAV activities key figures:

. Sophia Antipolis : 1st European leadingtechnology park (1,500 companies, 30,000 jobs)

. Home to the European leader satellitemanufacturer Thales Alenia Space Cannes

. Unique French Gateway to the EuropeanSatellite Navigation Competition (ex GalileoMasters)

. Home to ETSI (European TelecommunicationStandard Institute)

. Home to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

A future in SATNAV activities

. Côte d’Azur expects over 10 000 jobs related toSATNAV activities over the next 10 years

. Côte d’Azur aims to become a part of the Top 10 Regions club in this promising sector. Think Côte d’Azur!

UPSTREAM AEROSPACE SEGMENTA pool of expertise with:

THALES ALENIA SPACE European leader for satellite systems and atthe forefront of orbital infrastructures,Thales Alenia Space is a worldwidereference in telecoms, radar and opticalEarth observation, defense and security,navigation and science. Thales AleniaSpace is at the heart of the most high-performance satellite technologies in bothcivil and defense sectors.www.thalesonline.com/space

TEMEXTemex, worldwide leader in highperformance time and frequency solutionsoffers advanced products ranging fromfilters and oscillators components tofrequency synthesizers, reference clocks tosmart GPS timing modules.www.temex.com

INFOTERRA FRANCEISTAR - INFOTERRA, the geospatial products& services innovator and teams from AstriumEarth observation group, have joined to formInfoterra France, a leading provider ofgeoinformation products for environment andsecurity. The experience and research inremote sensing technology, photogrammetry,digital mapping and IT has helped to offer awide range of applications. www.infoterra.fr

OROLIAOrolia’s companies equipment is essential tomodern information systems in thenavigation & space, defense & security andtelecom & broadcasting fields. The group currently consists of four entities:SpectraTime, T4 Science, Spectracom andPendulum Instruments. www.orolia.com

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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS - TITI designs and manufactures analogtechnologies, digital signal processing (DSP)and microcontroller (MCU) semiconductors.TI Villeneuve Loubet is one of the largestR&D centres devoted to wirelesscommunications in the entire globalsemiconductor industry. Major supplier ofDSP-based solutions around the GSMstandard. www.ti.com

NXPNXP is one of the top 10 semiconductorcompanies. NXP creates semiconductors,system solutions and software that deliverbetter sensory experiences in mobilephones, personal media players, TVs, set-topboxes, identification applications, cars and awide range of other electronic devices.www.nxp.com

CAMBRIDGE SILICON RADIO - CSRCSR designs single-chip wireless devices. Inthe Bluetooth market, CSR is ranked #1 inevery Bluetooth market segment.CSR's BlueCore™ ICs are used in allprincipal applications including mobilephones, wireless headsets, all new modelsof laptop personal computers with Bluetoothcapability, mice and keyboards, in-carcommunication systems. www.csr.com

INFINEON TECHNOLOGIESInfineon’s communication solutions groupdevelops, manufactures and markets end-to-end leading edge semiconductor productsand solutions for cellular, wireless and wiredcommunications. This group is subdivided intothree businesses: Mobile Phone Platforms, RFSolutions (Wireless Communications) andBroadband (Wireline Communications).www.infineon.com

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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRYSome 80 firms concentrate on developing chips and semiconductors, designing integrated circuits and bluetooth technology, or producing smartcards and embedded systems.

TELECOMMUNICATION / POSITIONING, NAVIGATION AND TIMING SERVICES PROVIDERS

KAPSYSKapsys designs, develops and markets a newconcept of voice-controlled PersonalNavigation Devices (PND) for urban mobility.Kapsys' First Smart Urban Navigator isdesigned to offer multi-transport navigation,geo tagging and entertainment featuresintegrated into one compact unit.www.kapsys.com

AMADEUSAmadeus technology is to be found behindmost of the leading brands in the travel andtourism industry. In a market driven by newtechnologies, new entrants and newbusiness models, Amadeus is the leadingGlobal Distribution System provider and thebiggest processor of travel bookings in theworld. www.amadeus.com

BLUESKY POSITIONINGBlueSky Positioning’s product, A-GPS SIM, isone of the first Assisted-GPS module for SIMcards. Together with GSM or 3G phones, it

forms a complete network assisted GPSreceiver capable of locating the handsetquickly and accurately.www.blueskypositioning.com

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVEWith engineers specialised in thedevelopment of multimedia and connectivityapplications, the R&D centre in SophiaAntipolis has accumulated a number ofnotable successes in the area ofinfotainment and mobility in embeddedautomotive environments. www.vdo.com

BENOMAD BeNomad products address the developers’community enabling them to make the mostin their solution of GPS and map-basedinformation. The SIV product line – softwaredevelopment kit – is designated to addcompetitive geolocalization functions in theirindustry applications and solutions, likemobile navigation and online assets tracking.www.benomad.com

CISCO SYSTEMSF2E SYSTEMS GÉOMÉDITERRANÉE –ACRI STGEOSAT TECHNOLOGYHITACHI LABORATORYKUANTICNEXO FRANCE – COBRATECHNOLOGIES NODBOXOMNEON / CASTIFYNETWORKSORANGE LABQUESCOMSENTEGRASITA-EQUANTSMARTCOMSEASATCOMSPACEYES – GEOIMAGETECHNOFITRUSTED LOGICUDCASTULTICOM EUROPEVISTEON SOFTWARETECHNOLOGIES…

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ETSI (EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDSINSTITUTE)LEAT (ELECTRONICS, ANTENNAS ANDTELECOMMUNICATION LABORATORY)INRIA (NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INCOMPUTER SCIENCE & CONTROL)UNSA (UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS)

SCS (SECURED COMMUNICATING SOLUTIONS)

PEGASE (INNOVATIVE AEROSPACE SOLUTIONS FOR HUMAN SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY)

PACA MARINE cluster (SEA TECHNOLOGIES )

GMES (RISKS MANAGEMENT & LAND VULNERABILITY)

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IS BOOSTED BY 4 COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTERSTHE CÔTE D’AZUR SATNAV CLUSTER

AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTES

LABORATORIES, SCHOOLS

. NEW INNOVATIVE COMPANIESWILL ALSO GET THE FIRST BACK UPSOF THE 2 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS BASEDNURSERIES

THE NICE OBSERVATORY ERCIM (EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONSORTIUM FORINFORMATICS & MATHEMATICS)W3C (WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM)EURECOM INSTITUTEPOLYTECHECOLE DES MINES DE PARIS

. LIVING LABS SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS

The Living Labs Europe consortium explores thepotentials of innovative mobile applications &technologies to citizens, companies, researchers andinvestors for the purpose of pioneering mobileapplications for end-users and markets.The Living Lab Sophia Antipolis has signed aninternational partnership with the UNS – University ofNice Sophia Antipolis to promote innovations and is alsodeeply involved in the KIS4SAT European DG Ent. projectin the satellite downstream applications sectors, whichbuilds on experience gained on past projects like InveSATand NAVobs and which relies on existing networks suchas ESInet and ENCADRE.www.livinglabs-europe.com

TELECOM PARIS INCUBATORTHE PACA EST INCUBATOR

EUROPEAN SATELLITE NAVIGATION COMPETITION

This unique European competition for satellite navigation applications aims to explore new commercially viableGNSS applications and promote their realisation.

GLOBAL WINNER:

ANTEQSecured transfer of financial data using someunique properties – time stamping data –delivered by Galileo www.anteq.fr

T-SYSTEMS SPECIAL TOPIC PRIZE:

NODBOXA unique and patented real time embedded riskprediction system regarding driver’s ecosystem:road, vehicle, conditions, driving and trajectory. www.nodbox.biz

www.investincotedazur.comwww.sophia-antipolis.net

Team Côte d'Azur is a joint initiative of the Alpes-Maritimes county council and the Nice Côte d'Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

CONTACT USTeam Côte d’Azur headquarters400 Promenade des AnglaisBP 3185 – 06204 Nice CEDEX 3 – France

Philippe Moretto : pmoretto@teamcotedazur.frHead of satellite applications projectsPhone : +33 (0)4 92 17 51 51

. AN INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS

. STAY CONNECTED TO THE WORLD

. A STEADILY RISING POOL OF SKILLED LABOR

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