LODESTAR EDF project

LODESTAR

Welcome to the homepage of the LODESTAR project. LODESTAR is an acronym for "Live Operational Data Enhancement for Situational Awareness through Augmented Reality." LODESTAR is a research project selected as one of 61 projects in the first round of European Defence Fund projects. The project is carried out by a consortium of five European SMEs. Please see our formal project summary (PDF) for more information.

Members of the LODESTAR consortium are:

The LODESTAR project is currently in progress and nearing completion of the research phase. Please contact us if you would like to receive information on the initial findings, or if you would like to be invited to our final demonstration in the Netherlands on 28 May 2025.

For a summary of the project, please refer to this folder.

Group photo Vilnius

LODESTAR project near completion of the research phase

Since the kickoff in December 2022, the LODESTAR project has been progressing steadily. We are currently in the final stages of the meeting, working towards a final demonstration on 28 May 2025. To date, we completed about 20 project deliverables, had 5 in-person Management Team and Technical Team meetings, more than 100 online meetings and many, many useful technical discussions.

If you would appreciate an invitation to the final demonstration, please contact us by email: lodestar@embeddedacoustics.com

Group photo kickoff

LODESTAR has been successfully kicked off

On 16 December 2022, the kick-off meeting of LODESTAR took place in Amsterdam. Representatives of the European Commission and all project partners got together for a one-day meeting, in which the general structure and procedures were discussed, and plans were made for the execution of the project.

In the initial phase of the project, we focus on obtaining a better understanding of operational requirements by end users, as well as understanding existing reference architectures and standards for LODESTAR to comply with.

We will be preparing an end user workshop to be held in February 2023.