LightSquared has signed an agreement with Javad GNSS Inc to develop an affordable system that will eliminate related interference issues for high-precision GPS devices.
LightSquared has signed an agreement with Javad GNSS Inc to develop an affordable system that will eliminate related interference issues for high-precision GPS devices.
According to company, the Javad GNSS system can be adapted to work with high-precision GPS devices including those already in the agriculture, surveying, construction and defense industries.
LightSquared says that Javad GNSS has completed the design, made prototypes and tested those prototypes. Preproduction units will be released for public tests in October, followed by mass production. High-precision receivers for positioning applications are expected to go to market by November 2011 and precision timing devices by March 2012.
To develop the technology, Javad GNSS took the existing flagship receivers and reconfigured the filters and linear amplifiers to make them completely compatible with LightSquared’s bottom 10 MHz of spectrum. The additional cost for this technology is not expected to increase the selling price of the device to the customer.
“This interference problem is not a difficult one to solve. The truth is that high precision GPS users have a wide range of interference issues to contend with – from congested frequencies to intentional jamming. LightSquared made this problem much easier to solve by moving to spectrum farther away from the core GPS frequencies,” said Javad GNSS founder Javad Ashjaee.
