New EU Report Stresses Importance of GNSS Alternatives for PNT - NextNav TerraPoiNT Exceeds Industry Standards Across Use Cases
The European Union's Joint Research Centre (JRC) released a report emphasizing the need for Alternative Position, Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) solutions due to vulnerabilities in GNSS technology. The report highlights that without alternatives, potential economic losses could reach €1 billion daily. NextNav's TerraPoiNT was recognized as a leading solution, meeting all benchmarks for resilience against GNSS outages. TerraPoiNT displayed superior performance in indoor and outdoor settings, maintaining vertical accuracy within 2 meters and timing stability within 15 nanoseconds. The findings aim to guide EU policymakers in enhancing economic and infrastructure resilience against GNSS vulnerabilities.
- NextNav's TerraPoiNT recognized as a mature and reliable A-PNT solution.
- TerraPoiNT demonstrated indoor vertical accuracy within 2 meters 90% of the time.
- Maintained timing stability within 15 nanoseconds 90% of the time during testing.
- TerraPoiNT's signals are 100,000x stronger than GNSS, enhancing resistance to jamming and spoofing.
- Currently deployed for testing by NASA, showing practical application.
- Vulnerabilities in GNSS technology could lead to significant economic impacts.
- Dependency on GNSS poses risks to critical infrastructure and national security.
Vulnerabilities in GNSS technology highlight urgent need for PNT solutions that build resiliency for critical infrastructure and mitigate potential
The JRC recognized
Critical infrastructure and industries are reliant on precise PNT services, but traditional GNSS remains vulnerable to interference, which can include jamming or spoofing attacks, solar flares, or even direct strikes on satellites. In recent months following the invasion of
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According to the report, TerraPoiNT:
- Demonstrated indoor positioning, timing, and navigation, including vertical location accuracy within 2 meters
90% of the time, throughout the entire test; - Was only one of three technologies to successfully demonstrate timing stability over multiple days of GNSS loss;
- Exceeded critical infrastructure requirements by maintaining timing stability within 15 nanoseconds
90% of the time.
In addition to having signals that are 100,000x stronger than traditional GNSS, making them more resistant to spoofing and jamming, TerraPoiNT can also support methods to authenticate and encrypt signals to counter hostile attacks and other types of interference. TerraPoiNT is able to receive timing through multiple sources, including atomic clocks and fibre networks, and transfer it and wirelessly over the air across large distances. Further, TerraPoiNT is able to maintain a level of accuracy suitable for positioning and navigation. TerraPoiNT also delivers similar or better levels of outdoor PNT performance as it does indoor, allowing for industry-leading 3D navigation capabilities that incorporate both horizontal and vertical location. The service is currently used by NASA for drone and urban mobility testing in both Langley,
The TerraPoiNT technology is relatively flexible in its frequency usage, operating in the 900 MHz band in
Unlike many of the other available technologies tested, TerraPoiNT is deployable at scale due to its ability to fit mass market devices with software and firmware upgrades, leveraging existing RF front end where possible, and the minimal spectrum required for operation. With its subsidiary NextNav France, which has been working with the
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