Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works

When you have GPS glitches and missing an output on the highway, we experienced the moment of this frustration. Team You have your tearThe Qur’an, the Qur’an, the Qur’an, is said to be limited to reliant on satellite placement of the low-precious GPS alternative.

Tern AI said he thought the map information and the vehicle would find out how to find a vehicle position using the available sensor data. Company Pare: An additional is a cheap system that does not require additional expensive sensors.

In SxSWAustin-based start only demonstrated for “nothing can get a position from nothing” for TechCrunch.

“There are no triangles, no Wi-Fi, there is nothing. We simply determine where we go to Techcrunch, TECHCRUNCH, TECHCRUNCH Title Program Developer, Demo on TECHCRUNCH, TECHCRUNCH has been loaded in TECHcrunch. As based on, we now have the ability to be completely far from this network. “

Harrison says this progress is important for a number of reasons. Companies in terms of commercial companies – Delivery companies should double drivers due to the accidental GPS placement of drivers, including walking companies.

The more importantly, our most important systems – to react to the disaster from aviation, accuracy – trust in GPS. External enemies have already shown that they can Spoof GPS signalsIt will be able to have a catastrophic effect on both economy and national security.

The United States has signaled the GPS alternatives about which he wanted to prioritize. In the first time, President Donald Trump has signed a signature disposal To reduce the trust of a source of services to a PNA source (placement, navigation and time) such as GPS. And there is also Several other initiatives Direct agencies and bodies such as the Defense Department and National Security Council provide continuous PNT by testing and integrating non-GPS technologies.

“Deepseek came out and said that the value of that $ 6 million to do what he has [OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies] He said “Harrison” to make billions. “To get this point in a real-time map of a vehicle, the government was in billions of dollars and several decades. We made it less than $ 2 million.”

In February 2024, Tern came out secretly and announced 4.4 million dollars of seeds round a few months later. This week is a quick turn to reach the type of placement I live in SXSW.

Try the Tern system in Austin

To start the demonstration, Behroozi, 2019 Honda Civic closed his phone via Bluetooth, allows TERN application to receive information from existing sensors. He noted that Ternin technology can be combined directly from vehicles and 2009 to 2009 and above.

Terrially, Tern assigns the position by hand to speed up the work, but the team for the demo wanted “a cold start”. Behroosis extinguished the location of the phone, so there was a map of the intersign system, Austin and 500 square miles of vehicles around 500 square miles around the sensors.

As in the car, the system took the way to work in the direction of “approach”. It took about 10 minutes to reach a complete approach of the system from a cold start, because because of Behroosis, our actions were limited. Harrison takes a convergence against me, takes a day or two minutes without a starting point and immediately happens.

Harrison noted that the Ternin system can localize vehicles, tunnels and vehicles in the mountains, which is in the mountains where GPS can do. Harrison would not explain exactly by saying that the information was “property”.

I took a few minutes after the system’s full approach and followed our exact actions, and in some cases, as in some cases, they followed them better. Google Map, when I left me regularly with the dotting of my Google map throughout the week, this was regularly mistaken to Austin.

Harrison said the tern’s system is safer than a prospect of a privacy, because with GPS, “If he knows the ID card, you can find any time.”

“Our system is a common closed loop.” “Currently, we do not leave anything. Independently acquires its position [via on edge computing]Therefore there are no outside touchpoints. “

Scale was built

“We set up the company and started expanding from the beginning. We do not see the Waymo car and all the devices installed. It’s just too expensive,” Harrison said, “Harrison said,” Harrison said Waymo-Uber Robotaxi.

“At the manufacturer level, if [Tern] It is implemented within the data entertainment system, it is just a program Download, so unusually. All new vehicles have the sensor information we need. Map data is already available with all providers today. So quite simple. “

Tern’s potential customers can be up to mobile phone manufacturers from Google to Uber to mobile phone manufacturers. Harrison said that the beginning is open to the company’s growth, but also a purchase.

“The main thing is to make it in the hands of the economy with the emergence of techniques that do not exercise the full potential due to growing threats and trianjulation.” Harrison said.

He noted that Tern is to investigate opportunities with the government. Recently, the beginning recently received a contract with the US Transport Department to demonstrate its technology together with nine companies around the world.

“We hope that the government has done a good job to show what is possible with the American innovation,” Harrison said.

Clarification: This article has been updated to clarify how long its system is generally going to get a full convergence.