Tel Aviv: The heavy use of GPS denial in Ukraine and in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy in Lebanon, has increased the demand for protection systems that enable GPS navigation systems to operate without any disturbance.
Israeli company infiniDome has recently signed another contract with a European customer and according to Noam Turgeman, marketing specialist, the interest is growing in many countries.
According to the company’s official, infiniDome anti-jamming solutions are designed to protect GPS (GNSS) based systems from interference and jamming attacks, The line of systems include the GPSdome (150g) and GPSdome OEM (35g) which protect from a single direction of attack and their GPSdome2 (500g) which protects two bands from 3 directions of attack. The company is now working on a new generation of its systems.
“All solutions are fully retrofit, making them ideal for protecting almost any platform, without the need for major modifications in the platforms,” the company official stated.
The GPSdome units are designed to protect UAVs, drones, ground vehicles, and even critical infrastructure, enhancing their resilience to GPS EW attacks by 20x-100x.
infiniDome also offers their joint solution with Honeywell Aerospace – the Resilient Navigation System. The Resilient Nav System combines infiniDome’s anti-jamming technologies with Honeywell’s advanced inertial navigation solution (HCINS) and their radar-based AltNav solution (HRVS), delivering precise positioning and uninterrupted operations even when the GPS signals are completely lost. These solutions are essential for applications requiring high accuracy and reliability both in GNSS-challenged and even fully denied environments.
Loss of GPS signals in conflict zones can have severe consequences, hampering military operations and endangering lives. Similarly, in civilian environments, interference, either intentional or unintentional can disrupt essential services posing significant risks to lives and property. In an alarmingly growing number of regions, these GPS EW attacks had become a critical daily concern, not only in conflict zones but all around them as well.
As GNSS technology becomes more integral to a multiple number of industries, from precise agriculture, through transportation and critical infrastructure all the way to critical defence UAV applications, GPS protection and resilient navigation solutions have become indispensable.
-The writer is an Israel-based freelance journalist. The views expressed are of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda
