The opportunities for location based services are based around our game-changing accuracy improvements. If you drive a car, wear a sports watch, order take-out for delivery or use a device to navigate – our technology is paving the way for location devices to work more accurately, efficiently and securely.

The grant will allow us to develop a live demonstration and a rapid prototyping platform for Supercorrelation technology – accelerating its application to products and businesses reliant on accurate and reliable location, including smartphones, wearables and autonomous vehicles. With a mission to improve the location accuracy and reliability of every mobile device, the S-GNSS receiver will enable the trial and exploration of new use cases for Supercorrelation™ in areas that rely heavily on GNSS accuracy from the automotive and logistics sectors – to pedestrian navigation and anti-spoofing applications. This grant will help evaluate the importance of this software to each use case.

Diagram of an S-GNSS receiver, showing the benefits of Supercorrelation

What is Supercorrelation?

Supercorrelation™ is a patented, chipset-level software product offering improved sensitivity, accuracy and integrity via its unique software-based capability of determining the angle-of-arrival of satellite signals. It enables a new class of mass-market GNSS receiver that can measure the directions of the incoming signals without the need for high-cost antennas, allowing the receiver to ignore reflected signals and fake, ‘spoofed’ signals, making them more accurate in cities by a factor of 10 and more resilient against spoofing attacks by criminals. No extra hardware or infrastructure is required, making it a cost-effective and environmentally friendly option to addressing the age-old limitations of GNSS.

Dr Ramsey Faragher, Focal Point’s President and CTO commented: “We are delighted to receive the grant from the European Space Agency NAVISP programme. We have developed FocalPoint into a world-leading GNSS technology provider and I’m excited by the potential of these market opportunities. If you drive a car, wear a sports watch, order take-out for delivery and use a device to navigate – our technology is paving the way for our everyday location devices to work more accurately, efficiently and securely. It really is an exciting phase in our development, the possibilities are endless”.

Rafael Lucas Rodriguez, Head of the NAVISP Technical Programme commented, “I believe that Supercorrelation is the most significant improvement to GNSS receivers since the invention of Assisted-GNSS and I am very proud that we are supporting FocalPoint Positioning through the NAVISP programme”.