The European Project DEMETRA: Demonstrating Time Dissemination Services

Recently an European Consortium of 15 partners from 7 different countries, started to work on a research project, DEMETRA (DEMonstrator of EGNSS services based on Time Reference Architecture), funded by the European Union in the frame of the Horizon 2020 program, aiming to develop and experiment time services based on the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). DEMETRA aims to be a prototype of an European time dissemination service, based on the timing signal of the European Galileo system, adding particular features like certification, calibration, or integrity, that could be of interest to some specific users like traffic control, energy distribution, finance, telecommunication, and scientific institutions.