Tethered drones with mosaic-X5 provide continuous situational awareness

Hoverfly is the #1 tethered drone supplier to the US Army. Inside the drone, the mosaic-X5 receiver provides resilient positioning, protected by AIM+ anti-jamming and anti-spoofing technology.

Hoverfly Technologies Inc. is a US-based company, developing tethered drones that can hover at 200 feet (60 m) and can be deployed virtually anywhere to expand surveillance or to extend network communication. Hoverfly has integrated the resilient mosaic-X5 GNSS receiver module to provide reliable positioning even in contested environments. This receiver has built-in AIM+ Advanced Interference Mitigation technology, which leverages a sophisticated system of sampling, notch filtering and wideband cancellation to suppresses the widest variety of interferers from simple continuous narrow-band signals to the most complex wideband and pulsed transmissions. With mosaic-X5 inside, Hoverfly drones operate reliably in GNSS contested zones as well as in urban areas during large-scale events, providing eagle-eye surveillance and securing the area.

In our experience testing and deploying Septentrio receivers we have been able to successfully validate the performance and reliability of mosaic modules. For us it’s really been a performance increase

Michael Miranda

Director of Flight Operations, Hoverfly

Hoverfly tethered drone with Septentrio mosaic-X5 GPS module inside for defense - army solutions — Hoverfly tethered drones with Septentrio mosaic-X5 inside are protected by AIM+ anti-jamming and anti-spoofing technology.

Hoverfly-tethered-drone-in action - with Septentrio mosaic-X5 GNSS module inside

Why did Hoverfly choose mosaic-X5 for their drones?

•    Multi-frequency GNSS technology, using all available GNSS constellations and their signals for enhanced positioning reliability
•    AIM+ anti-jamming and anti-spoofing resilience, with OSNMA anti-spoofing authentication
•    Small form factor GNSS receiver
•    Septentrio customer support, guidance and assistance with solution implementation

Find out more about Hoverfly’s tethered drones and their resilient positioning solution in Hexagon's Autonomous Solutions Business Area's Velocity magazine.

Hoverfly

Hoverfly Technologies is revolutionizing the government and commercial markets for long-duration, small footprint aerial surveillance and secure long-range communications with tethered technology. By enabling continuous power and high-bandwidth data through a persistent tether link, their drones can remain on-station in the air almost indefinitely, providing surveillance, targeting, and communications relay functions – while stationary or on-the-move – from vehicles or vessels.

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