oneNav’s L5-direct™ Technology Enables Defense and Location Services to Overcome GPS Jamming and Spoofing in Israel
2024年7月22日 - 10:00PM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
- oneNav’s first-of-its-kind GPS technology proves resilient to
widespread GPS interference in live conflict zone near Haifa,
Israel, where leading smartphone brands failed.
- Live field test comes as attacks on GPS systems are increasing
globally, most notably Russia’s jamming of GPS systems across
Europe.
GPS technology developer oneNav today announces the results of a
groundbreaking real-world test proving the resilience of its
first-of-its-kind technology to widespread GPS interference.
The tests took place in and around Haifa, Israel, and examined
the performance of the GPS receivers in leading smartphone and
smartwatch brands – the first such study to ever be conducted in an
active conflict zone.
For this test, oneNav compared its L5-direct™ GPS receiver to
receivers found in iPhone, Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel
smartphones and Garmin watches. While these receivers all
experienced navigation failure due to GPS interference, oneNav’s
L5-direct™ test solution maintained accurate location fixes despite
active jamming and spoofing.
This resilience is due to L5-direct™ being able to directly
acquire the most modern band of GPS signals, known as L5, and
bypass the outdated L1 GPS signal which was first invented more
than 50 years ago. While current commercial GPS receivers in
smartphones, car navigation systems, and airplanes are able to
process the L5 band, they can only do so in a hybrid system that
must first acquire L1. This means that, to use the most modern GPS
signal available, a device must rely on L1 signals – the very same
signals that are currently being jammed in Israel and elsewhere
worldwide.
Given the vital role that GPS plays – not only for smartphones,
but also for aviation, emergency response services and military use
– relying on the L1 signals in a hybrid GPS system is an enormous
national security and public safety risk.
However, L5-band signals are 30x harder to jam and interfere
with compared to L1, and they offer superior performance in
difficult-to-navigate areas such as urban canyons and tree-covered
regions. This new technology has the potential to revolutionize GPS
in our most essential devices and across our most critical
industries.
“We now have clear, indisputable evidence that L5-direct™ is
resilient to widespread GPS jamming and is able to provide
precision location in GPS-contested environments,” said oneNav CEO
Steve Poizner. “This test is a real-world validation of our
first-of-its-kind technology and shows the potential for L5-direct™
to revolutionize how we use GPS for civilian and military purposes
in Israel and globally.”
While the field testing took place in Israel, GPS interference
is a global security concern due to the increase in attacks on GPS
systems worldwide. In Ukraine, Russia is countering American-made
smart weapons on the battlefield through GPS-jamming technology and
is accused of interfering with GPS navigation systems in more than
46,000 flights across Europe. An April 2024 field study by oneNav
confirmed widespread Russian GPS jamming from Finland to Turkey,
with the L5-band signal proving immune to Russian L1 jamming
attempts.
“As our adversaries’ GPS jamming capabilities become more
sophisticated, the need to modernize this crucial technology could
not be clearer,” said oneNav Advisory Board Member Rear Admiral
Mark Montgomery (Ret.), also a Senior Director of the Center on
Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies. “Make no mistake, GPS interference can happen in any
war zone and even our domestic critical infrastructures are at
risk. As evidenced by oneNav’s groundbreaking field study, the
United States has the technology to combat these threats, we just
need to implement it.”
oneNav’s IP core is currently available for evaluation and
integration by select chip developer partners and its low-SWaP
(space, weight and power) chips and modules will soon be available
for select partners. L5-direct™ is compatible with global
navigation satellite system (GNSS) constellations including GPS,
Galileo, BeiDou and more.
To see a video of oneNav’s live field test, please click
here.
For more information, please visit www.onenav.ai.
About oneNav:
oneNav is enabling AI-powered next generation GNSS silicon.
Based in California, oneNav is developing L5-direct™ GNSS receiver
technology for smartphones, wearables, drones, tracking devices,
and more and has built a large L5-band patent portfolio. oneNav’s
team comprises top GNSS experts from Qualcomm, Apple, Intel,
SnapTrack, SiRF, Trimble and eRide. With extensive experience in
GNSS system architecture, multipath mitigation, signal processing,
ASIC design and AI/machine learning, oneNav engineers have designed
and built billions of GNSS receivers on the market today and have
collectively filed over 300 career GNSS patents. World-class VC
investors include Google Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and
IQT.
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