The winner of the ESA Innovation Prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2009 was Tim Springer from the German start-up company PosiTim. His proposed an innovative system that identifies positions in real time with centimetre accuracy, based on available satnav data combined with an advanced data processing.
PosiTim is now hosted at ESA Business Incubation Centre Darmstadt to develop the idea and turn it into a commercial business.
At the ESNC in Munich 21 October 2009, from left: Thorsten Rudolph (Managing Director of Application Center for Satellite Navigation Oberpfaffenhofen AZO, the instigator of ESNC), Tim Springer (PosiTim), Frank M. Salzgeber (Head of ESA TTPO) and Ulrike Daniels (Business Development of Application Center for Satellite Navigation Oberpfaffenhofen AZO).