Telecommunications & Media
GPS limits drive rise of alternative navigation technologies
GPS is widely used to determine location, but jamming and spoofing are increasingly disrupting signals, including near the Russia-Ukraine border and in the Strait of Hormuz. The Wall Street Journal reported disruptions affecting aviation and weapon accuracy. Companies are pursuing alternatives such as inertial navigation systems, geomagnetic sensing using quantum sensors and visual navigation. Costs are falling, but no single technology is expected to replace GPS soon, and multiple methods may need to complement each other.
