Enabling mass adoption of high precision positioning using blockchain technology
High Precision Positioning
Accurate within a few meters, GNSS has become ubiquitous and an indispensable part of our lives
Real-time Kinematics (RTK) takes GNSS to centimeter accuracy by using corrections from reference receivers
Demand for this kind of accuracy exists, for example, in agriculture, mining, drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, geodesy, earthquake and tsunami warnings, etc.
Constraints in the corrections services ecosystem have hindered the mass adoption of RTK
The Challenges
Service providers have high costs for reference station infrastructure and therefore focus on high-income areas and lucrative market niches
Redundancy of reference station infrastructure is not leveraged between providers, leading to unnecessarily high service costs due to duplication of infrastructure
Regionally fragmented services make selling products globally a challenge
Business models are often made for high-end niche markets and typically do not fit mass markets
Raw station measurements are not made available, inhibiting special use cases, e.g. for scientific purposes on a global scale
Overcoming the Challenges
By separating reference stations operation from providing added value correction services, the reference station infrastructure can be shared within the high precision GNSS industry:
Network integration and deployment of additional reference stations brings global coverage and high network density
CAPEX and OPEX for reference station infrastructure is spread over a large community
Decentralization makes platform resilient, which is crucial for a critical infrastructure
Operators benefit from higher utilization of their infrastructure
Data users benefit from reduced data cost
Addressable market increases thanks to global coverage, high network density and lower service cost
Community Powered
Advances in Web3 technology with blockchain and smart contracts make it possible to build and operate very large, decentralized GNSS reference station networks efficiently and securely
It also opens the possibility for novel governance approaches that easily and efficiently accommodate to the interests of a broad stakeholder base
This is the underlying technology for onocoy’s community-based decentralized RTK correction network
