Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) Receivers

The freely available signals of the existing global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as the American GPS or the Russian GLONASS are used for a wide range of applications to determine position and time. However, the freely available signals are unencrypted and thus unprotected. As a result, they can easily be interfered with, manipulated or even switched off in crisis situations. With the introduction of the world's first global navigation satellite system under civilian control, Galileo, it is now possible for officially authorized users to use the especially protected, encrypted signals of the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS).

Fraunhofer IIS offers Galileo PRS receiver technologies to (inter-) national authorities and organizations with security tasks, operators of critical infrastructures and authorized users, thus enabling the generation of secure and reliable position and time information through Galileo PRS.

Specific offer

  • Development of Galileo PRS receivers with integrated security module
  • Support of highest security requirements, accuracy and availability
  • Creation of a tamper-proof position and time solution
  • Anti-jamming and anti-spoofing solutions
  • Detection of jamming and spoofing
  • Development of Galileo PRS chipset solutions
  • Identification and positioning of interferers and spoofers
  • Implementation of Galileo PRS training, test and measurement campaigns

Applications and projects

 

GEODE

European standardisation of navigation solutions for Galileo PRS in the sovereign domain.

 

DARCY

GNSS interference detection with machine learning and crowdsourcing.

 

 

GUaRDIAn

Cost-effective and small: Galileo PRS receiver chipset for mobile applications.

 

 

PASCAL

Low-power dual-band front-end ASIC (suitable for e.g. Galileo PRS E1 / E6).*

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HALI

Free passage for special operations vehicles through Galileo PRS.

DIRACU

Rapid and direct Galileo PRS acquisition module.

PRISMA

Development and demonstration of a Galileo PRS-OEM receiver in GB-GRAM form factor.*

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PROOF

Our Galileo PRS test receiver.*

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P3RS-2

The first pre-operational Galileo PRS receivers to evaluate the performance of Galileo PRS.

 

BASE

Trusted location and time information: First Galileo PRS receiver technologies in Germany.

More information

 

GNSS receiver technologies

Satellite navigation receivers and antennas for a wide range of applications.

Publications

Van der Merwe, JR.; Garzia, F.; Rügamer, A.; Felber, W.: Advanced and versatile signal conditioning for GNSS receivers using the high-rate DFT-based data manipulator (HDDM), in: NAVIGATION. 2021; 68: 779– 797.
Here you can get further information with video abstract.

Garzia, F.; van der Merwe, J.R.; Rügamer, A.; Urquijo, S.; Felber, W., HDDM Hardware Evaluation for Robust Interference Mitigation, in: MDPI Sensors 2020, 20, 6492.

Rügamer, A.; Joshi, S.; Merwe, J. R. v. d.; Garzia, F.; Felber, W.; Wendel, J.; Schubert, F. (2017): Chirp Mitigation for Wideband GNSS Signals with Filter Bank Pulse Blanking, in: Proceedings of the 30th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2017), Portland, Oregon, S. 3924-3940.

Rügamer, A.; Rubino, D.; Lukcin, I.; Taschke, S.; Stahl, M.; Felber, W. (2016): Secure Position and Time Information by Server Side PRS Snapshot Processing, in: Proceedings of the 29th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2016), Portland, Oregon, S. 3002-3017.

Rügamer, A.; Neumaier, P.; Sommer, P.; Garzia, F.; Rohmer, G.; Konovaltsev, A.; Sgammini, M.; Caizzone, S.; Meurer, M.; Wendel, J.; Schubert, F.; Baumann, S. (2014): BaSE-II: A Robust and Experimental Galileo PRS Receiver Development Platform, in: Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2014), Tampa, Florida, S. 2579-2591.

Rügamer, A.; Stahl, M.; Lukcin, I.; Rohmer, G. (2014): Privacy Protected Localization and Authentication of Georeferenced Measurements using Galileo PRS, in: Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2014, Monterey, CA, S. 478-486.

Rügamer, A.; Suberviola, I.; Foerster, F.; Rohmer, G.; Konovaltsev, A.; Basta, N.; Meurer, M.; Wendel, J.; Kaindl, M.; Baumann, S. (2011): A Bavarian Initiative Towards a Robust Galileo PRS Receiver, in: Proceedings of the 24th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2011), Portland, OR, S. 3668-3678.