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The winner of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme’s special topic prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2008 is Pierre Salmona from the French start-up company, Locus, for a mobile phone-based museum guide which by combining WiFi and stationary pseudo-satellites, so-called pseudolites, allows indoor navigation. Here he is seen with Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of the ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (left) and Thorsten Rudolph, Director of Anwendungszentrum GmbH in Oberpfaffenhofen and the instigator of ESNC.