Demand for this kind of accuracy exists, for example, in agriculture, mining, drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, geodesy, earthquake and tsunami warnings, etc.
Service providers have high costs for reference station infrastructure and therefore focus on high-income areas and lucrative market niches
Redundancy of reference station infrastructure is not leveraged between providers, leading to unnecessarily high service costs due to duplication of infrastructure
By separating reference stations operation from providing added value correction services, the reference station infrastructure can be shared within the high precision GNSS industry:
Advances in Web3 technology with blockchain and smart contracts make it possible to build and operate very large, decentralized GNSS reference station networks efficiently and securely
It also opens the possibility for novel governance approaches that easily and efficiently accommodate to the interests of a broad stakeholder base