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Award-winning, patented technology for enhanced GNSS reliability and accuracy in tough environments
Supercorrelation® is a patented, chipset-level software that improves the accuracy and reliability of GNSS receivers, revolutionising the positioning ability of vehicles, mobiles and wearables in challenging environments.
Its unique ability to discriminate the angle-of-arrival of satellite signals allows GNSS receivers to focus on the line-of-sight signals, ignoring all others, without the need for high-cost antennas.
With Supercorrelation, OEMs, chipset makers, and location-based service providers can build groundbreaking technologies that make a tangible difference to everyday users.
Higher accuracy
Supercorrelation mitigates the degradation in accuracy caused by multipath in urban areas, forested roads, and highways with sound walls.
Greater sensitivity
Supercorrelation boosts GNSS receiver sensitivity radio signals by up to 10 dB, optimising the performance of hidden antennas and maintaining location tracking when signals are attenuated.
Improved reliability
Supercorrelation makes GNSS more reliable by filtering out reflected and fake signals, so position estimates remain accurate and trustworthy.
Supercorrelation explained
As the foundational technology that enables our S-GNSS® product, Supercorrelation is designed for the modern system-on-a-chip silicon architecture used by all consumer GNSS receivers. It provides a highly accessible and cost-effective solution to improving GNSS receiver reliability, directly from the chip.
It requires no extra hardware or infrastructure and fits into existing architecture as a software upgrade.
How it works
By removing the effects of reflected signals and multipath interference – the biggest sources of error in urban canyons – it allows metre-level positioning to be maintained on consumer devices in the most challenging signal environments.
Allows the receiver to ignore reflected signals
Ignores fake, ‘spoofed’ signals, building resilience to spoofing attacks
No extra hardware or infrastructure is required
What's unique about Supercorrelation?
Whilst GNSS has remarkable capabilities, one of its most significant limitations is multipath interference caused by signals bouncing off buildings, trees, or other obstacles before reaching the GNSS receiver. This leads to inaccuracies in positioning and timing measurements, resulting in errors in determining the user’s position.
Supercorrelation is the only software-based GNSS technology capable of determining the arrival angle of signals, enabling line-of-sight determination and the removal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals from the positioning solution.
Supercorrelation improves accuracy by overcoming the challenges of multipath interference. It also enhances security by identifying and rejecting the external radio signals that can spoof traditional GNSS setups.
Supercorrelation®:
Technical whitepaper
Our technical whitepaper offers a more detailed look at how Supercorrelation works, its performance specs, and how it can be integrated into your existing GNSS receiver architecture to create a next-gen S-GNSS receiver.
Download the white paperS-GNSS® Auto: Reliable GNSS for vehicles in urban environments
Learn more about how our S-GNSS® Auto software uses Supercorrelation to transform vehicle navigation, making hands-free driving available in traditionally challenging environments.
Industry-leading innovation
The FocalPoint IP portfolio expands to over 190 patents across more than 40 families.
We have been recognised by renowned institutions including the Royal Institute of Navigation, the European Space Agency, and the Institute of Physics.
Business Award for Innovation 2023
Institute of Physics
Award for technical Achievement
Royal Institute of Navigation
Per Enge Achievement Award
Institute of
Navigation
Signals Leadership Award
GPS World
32 Innovators making the world a better place
Wired UK
W.G.P Lamb Award
Royal Institute of Navigation
Security Innovation of the Year
National Technology Awards 2023
Self-driving Industry Awards 2024 - V2X
Cars of the Future
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