NextNav Showcases APNT Backup to GNSS at European Commission's Joint Research Centre’s Trial
February 01 2022 - 1:36PM
NextNav (Nasdaq: NN) today announced that it has recently
participated in the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
(JRC) alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (APNT)
evaluation in Ispra, Italy. According to the JRC, the trial is
analyzing the technologies “which could deliver positioning, and/or
timing information, independently from GNSS, to be effective backup
in the event of GNSS disruption, and if possible to be able to
provide PNT in the environments where GNSS cannot be delivered.”
The test furthers the European Union’s creation of a backup to the
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), such as Galileo or GPS,
and is intended to assess which technologies could strengthen and
expand the European PNT capacity.
PNT services are critical for the global economy, with studies
estimating a contribution to the European GDP of approximately 10%.
Today, GNSS services are the backbone of PNT, with an increasing
role in new services and technologies, including car-sharing,
autonomous vehicles, ship and aircraft navigation, smart logistics,
and precision agriculture. The timing capabilities of PNT are
heavily utilized today by critical infrastructure, which are
strategic from a commercial and societal perspective, including
telecom, energy, finance, and transportation. Published studies
estimated economic losses of around 1 billion EUR per day if GNSS
is unavailable. NextNav’s JRC trial focused on measuring the
precision of timing delivery across alternate timing sources to
better understand performance in GNSS-free environments
– including instances of outages, spoofing, and jamming. As a
part of the trial, NextNav also demonstrated its capabilities in
providing both indoor and outdoor “z-axis” vertical location.
“The trials conducted by ISPRA on behalf of the European
Commission are part of the global trend to develop a resilience
layer to space-based GPS/GNSS systems that is more secure and
available,” said Ganesh Pattabiraman, CEO of NextNav. “We are
redefining the capabilities of APNT technologies, and look forward
to working with the European Commission on furthering these
initiatives to build a GNSS-backup layer that can deliver
highly-precise PNT across use-cases.”
The US and countries across Europe continue to invest in both
understanding and taking steps towards creating a resilient PNT
layer in each nation. The participation in the JRC trial builds
upon the recent evaluation of APNT technologies in the United
States, including a 2021 U.S. Department of Transportation report,
where TerraPoiNT was found to be the best performing APNT
solution across use-cases. Further, NextNav recently created
an APNT testbed in the San Francisco Bay area that was developed as
part of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security demonstration used
to evaluate the precision and resilience of NextNav’s TerraPoiNT
network. The JRC is expected to report results from the evaluation
in spring 2022.
Source: NN-FIN
About NextNavNextNav (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, reflect the 3D world around us, and support innovative,
new capabilities. NextNav’s TerraPoiNT network delivers accurate,
reliable, and resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)
services to support critical infrastructure and other GPS-reliant
systems in the absence or failure of GPS.
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