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    India’s NavIC Chip Promises To Reduce Dependence On GPS

    By The Defence TimesApril 17, 2023No Comments2 Mins Read
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    India's NavIC Chip Promises To Reduce Dependence On GPS
    IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system designed to provide accurate position information service.
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    The NavIC Chip showcased at the Defence Space Symposium is capable of powering accurate and high-precision navigation, positioning, and timing applications using NavIC, the indigenous satellite based navigation system developed in India.

    The chip is developed by a Bengaluru-based space technology company Elena Geo Systems. It functions using NavIC or the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), and is a significant progress towards expanding the use of indigenously developed technology in the navigation space.

    Retired lieutenant colonel V S Velan, founder and chief technology officer of Elena Geo Systems, formally handed the NavIC chip to Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan.

    “We are thrilled to present India’s first fully designed and developed NavIC chip. The processor will give India a huge edge as both the government and private sector can move away from their dependence on the American Global Positioning System (GPS),” Lt Col Velan said.

    “Elena is in the process of patenting the technology and the product which has been developed by our dedicated R&D team,” he added.

    The “NavIC processor” is said to have numerous cores that cater to different demands, including signal acquisition, regeneration, processing, and output interface.

    The company plans to make 10,000 chips in the first batch, as revealed to The Hindu. They have already showcased their products to the military, Lt Col Velan told the newspaper, and are supplying 200 NavIC receivers to the Army through Bharat Electronics Limited.

    Incubated in 2012 at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Elena Geo Systems is now part of the Indian Space Association (ISpA), which organised the symposium with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

    In April 2019, Elena Geo Systems revealed its first processor, that could process NavIC S-band, L5 band, GAGAN, GPS, and Russian GLONASS signals.

    Over the past two years, Elena has proven its expertise in various devices and applications such as reference stations, DSM map display systems with IRNSS for the military, map display systems for patrol boats, marine NavIC receivers, intelligent vehicle tracking devices, NavIC drone navigation units, and NavIC-based atomic clocks.

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