NextNav Confirms Successful Initial Tests of Accurate 3D Position, Navigation and Timing Service Leveraging Cellular Infrastructure
20 July 2023 - 11:00PM
NextNav, a global leader in next-generation GPS, has announced that
it has successfully tested its positioning and timing solution that
combines the company’s assured PNT (position, navigation and
timing) TerraPoiNT system with existing LTE and 5G network signals.
The test, which took place in and around San Jose, California,
demonstrates how TerraPoiNT signals can be integrated with existing
cellular signals to deliver accurate 3D positioning and timing
information that is not reliant on conventional satellite-based GPS
and GNSS signals.
Using dedicated terrestrial transmitters and LTE/5G
signals, NextNav’s system delivers accurate and reliable 3D
positioning and timing information and can augment or complement
GPS in places where GPS signals may not be available. This includes
indoors, urban areas, or situations where GPS signals may
experience interference. Integrating TerraPoiNT with LTE and 5G
signals provides a rapid and cost-effective approach to scaling
resilient PNT solutions in GPS-denied environments.
“Whether its utilities, banks, data centers,
transportation, or emergency services, critical infrastructure
today is reliant on GPS for position, navigation and timing
services, making it highly vulnerable to GPS as a single point of
failure” said Ganesh Pattabiraman, Co-Founder and CEO of NextNav.
“With this integration we have demonstrated a highly scalable and
lower cost alternative - a 3D PNT solution which overcomes the
vulnerabilities of GPS with a complementary ground based resilient
PNT layer that extends PNT capabilities in urban and indoor
environments .”
The announcement of the successful Bay Area test
follows a recent European Joint Research Centre (JRC) report, which
highlighted NextNav’s TerraPoiNT as a mature technology that met or
exceeded relevant benchmarks to serve as a resilient layer for
existing GPS and GNSS technologies. Previously, in a 2021 report,
tests by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) found TerraPoiNT
to be the only commercial alternative PNT solution to meet
identified needs in “all applicable use case scenarios.”
Source: NN-FIN
About NextNav:
NextNav Inc. (Nasdaq: NN) is a leader in next
generation GPS, enabling a whole new ecosystem of applications and
services that rely upon vertical location and resilient geolocation
technology. The company’s Pinnacle network delivers highly accurate
vertical positioning to transform location services, reflecting the
3D world around us and supporting innovative, new capabilities.
NextNav’s TerraPoiNT network delivers accurate, reliable, and
resilient 3D positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services to
support critical infrastructure and other GPS-reliant systems in
the absence or failure of GPS.
For more information, please visit
https://nextnav.com or follow NextNav on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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