As reported by GPS World: Chemring Technology Solutions has developed miniaturized GPS anti-jamming technology it has dubbed GINCAN. GINCAN is
designed to combat illegal GPS jammers and is based on the adaptive
antenna concept used by military systems. GINCAN has a chip footprint of
six millimeters squared.
GINCAN’s reduced size and weight will significantly cut
power usage and cost, the company said, making it ideal for combating the widespread problem of low-powered GPS jamming. GINCAN can be
integrated into a range of applications, including in-vehicle satellite
navigation systems and cellular technology, and can be used for the
protection of the critical infrastructures which rely on GPS to provide
positioning and timing.
GPS jammers have already been developed to interfere with
the European Union’s Galileo system, which will provide European
satellite navigation independently from the Russian, USA and Chinese
systems by 2019. Chemring Technology Solutions, based in Romsey,
England, has anticipated this problem and its GPS anti-jamming
technology will also support systems using Galileo.
Once the preserve of the military, there is now an
increasing demand for GPS protection in the civilian market as illegal
GPS jamming equipment becomes widely available on the Internet. The £1.5
million government-funded Sentinel project, designed to measure GPS
jamming on UK roads, recorded more than 60 individual jamming incidents
across six months at a single location. Such attacks could seriously
impact industries, including maritime, aerospace, the emergency services
and even stock market trading.
“Many years of developing GPS protection technology for
the military has enabled our research and development team to
miniaturize anti-jamming technology,” said Martin Ward, product manager,
Chemring Technology Solutions. “GINCAN can now be easily integrated in
to a range of applications to provide effective protection against
jamming devices.
“As we become increasingly reliant on GPS technology, and
low-cost jammers are proliferating, so a potential time bomb is being
created. Chemring Technology Solutions is now able to offer the answer
to this problem with jammer protection at a reduced size, weight, power
and cost footprint.”
GINCAN is an export controlled product and subject to UK export restrictions.
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