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Shipowners offered discounted technology to mitigate GNSS interference
Operators and owners will be able to use Iridium’s assured positioning, navigation and timing to lower risks of GNSS jamming and spoofing through their P&I club
NorthStandard, which provides protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance, has started offering technology to its members for preventing jamming and spoofing of signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).
These signals are vital for vessel positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) but come under interference in conflict areas such as in the Middle East, Black Sea, eastern Mediterranean and Baltic Sea.
However, SGM Technology has developed PntGuard that uses PNT signals over Iridium’s low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation which are more powerful and less affected by interference than signals from geostationary orbit GNSS.
NorthStandard members will be offered a 15% discount of PntGuard has the P&I club seeks to reduce risk through its loss prevention programme.
PntGuard also joins NorthStandard’s growing GetSet portfolio of safety and efficiency technologies that use digitalisation to support best practice in maritime operations.
GNSS jamming and spoofing compromise safety by interrupting, impairing and potentially invalidating the information crews rely on for navigation and situational awareness. They also create compliance and claims risks for owners and operators.
“Our strategy of assisting our members to leverage the capabilities of digitalisation has already brought significant gains for voyage safety and operational decision-making,” said NorthStandard global head of loss prevention, Colin Gillespie.
“At a time when GNSS integrity is threatened as never before, PntGuard enables early warning of interference events, upholding navigational resilience and situational awareness,” he said. “Its use will reduce our members’ exposure to navigation-related incidents.”
PntGuard, built on NAL Technologies’ assured positioning, navigation and timing, reports the true ship position when other GNSS signals fail.
“GNSS interference is no longer confined to conflict zones, with spoofing and jamming disrupting commercial shipping globally, sending ships off course and compromising crew safety,” said SGM Technology chief commercial officer, Alexander Wiik.
“That has far-reaching consequences for revenues, compliance and insurance. By comparing the ship’s GNSS feed with a fully authenticated signal, PntGuard gives instant visual and audible alerts when GNSS fails.”
Iridium’s PNT satellite service delivers continuous, authenticated and reliable ship positions independent of GNSS.
Also included in NorthStandard’s GetSet portfolio are ECDIS training and assessment, Orca AI’s FleetView situational awareness platform, Shipin’s visual fleet management FleetVision and VPS Fuel Insights.
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