Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS)

Descripton

The Commercial Service (CS) is aimed at market applications requiring higher performance than offered by the Open Service. It provides added value services on payment of a fee. CS is based on adding two signals to the open access signals. This pair of signals is protected through commercial encryption, which is managed by the service providers and the future Galileo operator. Access is controlled at the receiver level, using access-protection keys.

The uses foreseen for the commercial service include data broadcasting and resolving ambiguities in differential applications. These will be developed by service providers, which will buy the right to use the two commercial signals from the Galileo operator.

Developing commercial applications either by using the commercial signals alone, or by combining them with other Galileo signals or external communications systems, opens a wide range of possibilities. The worldwide coverage brings a strong advantage for applications requiring global data broadcast.

Typical value-added services include service guarantees, precise timing services, the provision of ionosphere delay models, local differential correction signals for extreme-precision position determination and other services based on the broadcast of system information data.