The war in Ukraine brought home a fact: The GPS signal is very easy to disturb.according to David Vissière, president and co-founder of the company Sysnav. In this sense, the latter has developed a sensor “the size of a box of matches” in order to spot a person in real time in an environment where GPS would be incapable. To achieve this, the company, based in Eure, uses la navigation magnéto-inertielle. This patented technology makes it possible to determine position in real time and in three dimensions of a person without resorting to satellites, details BFM Business.
This sensor thus becomes effective in many situations : on a battlefield strewn with jammers, in a sensitive factory with its sprawling size or even in a burning building to follow the advance of the firefighters live. Other advantages of this case: its small size in order to be able to easily hang it on the ankle using a Velcro and its autonomy of several hours. This product stands out from other boxes which are large and which are carried in a backpack. “There is an issue of miniaturization for a box which must have at least five sensors spaced apart”details David Vissière.
The company ready to assume national sovereignty
This technology was also noticed at Defense Innovation Forum last November where the company received a prize from the hands of the Chief of Staff of the Armyle général Pierre Schill. “Tests are underway with special forces for this technology integrated into the Centurion program, led by the DGA (Directorate General of Armaments), and which finances innovation initiatives.”said David Vissière, claiming to be ready to produce a “sovereign solution” made in France.
More Sysnav deplores that it is not going fast enough “when the solution exists in prototype state” and that this project is subject to the same constraints as major arms programs with “very long cycle times”. To overcome these difficulties, the company compensates by selling several thousand copies on the civilian market and the share of export sales. The sensor is notably used by pharmaceutical industries to study a patient’s motor skills. She also equips vehicleslike those of Paris airports or the mobile radar cars of the Ministry of the Interior, as well as the Paris firefighters.
