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Capabilities

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Capabilities

What our sensors make possible. Each capability lists example applications — the specific systems it enables.

The register

Six capabilities, one core technology

A satellite downlink cut short on its way down, above a platform on the ground that carries its own clock

Alt PNT

Positioning, navigation and timing that survives GPS denial, degradation and spoofing.

  • Spoofing detectionAn independent reference on board makes a forged fix detectable, because the forged position disagrees with a clock the attacker cannot reach.
  • Jam resistanceWhen the received signal is buried, navigation continues from references that are carried rather than broadcast.
  • Assured navigationPosition and time that degrade gradually instead of failing at once, so an operation continues rather than aborts.
Two square-wave clock traces, the lower one running a fixed interval behind the upper one

Time synchronization

Chip-scale timing accurate enough to hold networks and grids in step without a satellite.

  • Grid synchronizationProtection and metering across substations stay comparable when the reference on the roof stops arriving.
  • TelecommunicationsBase stations and transport equipment hold their allocation without a receiver in the loop.
A reference that stops at a marked point: one trace falls away steeply, the other holds almost level

GPS holdover

Maintaining timing accuracy through extended loss of GPS.

  • DefensePlatforms and installations that must go on operating through a denial event, not merely detect one.
  • Data centersOrdering and audit trails that stay coherent across racks and sites when the reference is interrupted.
A magnetic reading that rises to a peak as the survey passes over a buried ferrous object

Mag ISR

Magnetic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — detecting what other sensors cannot see.

  • DefenseDetection and classification of concealed ferrous mass where optical and radio sensing have no path to it.
Magnetic flux lines squeezed around a crack inside a section of material

Mag NDT

Non-destructive testing using magnetic sensing, reading through material rather than around it.

  • Pipeline inspectionWall loss and cracking read from outside the pipe, without excavating or taking the line out of service.
  • Electronics manufacturingJoints and internal structure verified on the line rather than sampled after the fact.
  • Automotive and aerospace parts manufacturingSubsurface defects caught at the point they are made, on parts where opening one up destroys it.
Two rails seen from above with regular sleepers, one of them bulging away from its true alignment

Rail monitoring

Inertial and gyroscopic sensing applied to rail infrastructure monitoring.

  • IMU and gyro sensingTrack geometry reconstructed from the motion of a vehicle already on the network, instead of from a scheduled survey run.

Underneath

One vapor cell under all of it

Every capability above comes back to the same part. The vapor cell is the core technology underneath our sensors. What it enables — clocks, magnetometers, gyroscopes — follows from how precisely it can be made and characterized.

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