Locata Corporation: Location hot spots -- beyond GPS

better job than a GPS satellite, because we have such unbelievable control over the signals at a very local level. In all of the various applications, where GPS is failing today — areas such as industrial machine control, indoor positioning for warehousing, emergency services, and military applications — this product provides a completely new capability that GPS will never be able to replicate even if they put up a thousand satellites.

The LocataLite emits signals that are picked up by receivers that we also supply.

In the case of the Newmark mine, we have deployed a Locata net — that’s what we call the collective signals of our devices — around the rim of the mine. They constitute the equivalent of 40 GPS satellites and are at the mine’s beck and call — factually the mine now has its own GPS system, and that’s one of our mantras, this is your own GPS and can be configured and moved in any way you need. The mining machines now work all the time, which translates into profitability and in this case could mean a difference of hundreds of millions of dollars.

When that Locata net is turned on, the LocataLites go through a new synchronization process called Time Lock. This Time Lock actually synchronizes our devices better than all of the atomic clocks carried by the satellites. Thus we are synchronizing to better than 10 to minus 12 picoseconds and in laymen language that’s one hundredth of a billionth of a second and we do it without an atomic clock.

Now what that means is that positioning using the Locata net at the mine is accurate to about an inch across a 5-kilometer distance, and that is an everyday result.

HSNW: This technology obviously had military and security applications.

NG: Yes, there are obvious military applications. We are very proud that the U.S. Air Force, who pioneered this technology, was the first to actually take it up. We’re working with the Director of Advanced Navigation Labs for the U.S. Air Force, which is out of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) based in Wright-Paterson AFB, Ohio. We are also working with the 746 Test Squadron and their GPS Test Center for Expertise based at Holloman AFB, New Mexico.

Since GPS has such weak signals, is quite easy to jam. There is an enormous amount of work being done today in jamming the signal or having anti jam capabilities. Now