Elsight has introduced a Positioning capability that locates drones and other uncrewed platforms using cellular network measurements when GPS is jammed, spoofed or unavailable. It is offered as part of the company's Halo product.
Israeli drone developer Elsight announced its new Positioning capability on October 12, 2026. It is meant to provide geolocation for autonomous platforms in the air, on land and at sea in environments where GPS is denied, jammed or spoofed. The feature sits inside Halo, the company's flagship mission enablement product. Existing Halo customers need no extra hardware, because it arrives as a software or feature unlock.
The system relies on a patented method that determines location from cellular network measurements. Since this infrastructure is separate from GNSS, Elsight says it resists jamming, spoofing and interference, and it can work on any available network. A fusion engine adds other inputs, such as cellular Timing Advance, nearby base station signals, verified GPS, and motion and velocity data. In normal operation GPS remains the default, and the system switches to cellular positioning only when GPS is lost.
Elsight stresses that the output is absolute geolocation, not relative positioning from a starting point. The company also describes Positioning as the first product of its kind with built-in active spoofing detection: it compares GPS with the cellular-derived position in real time and raises an alert if the two differ beyond a set threshold.
Chief executive Yoav Amitai said GPS has become a critical vulnerability in contested environments. Elsight says Halo, which bonds cellular, satellite and RF links, has logged more than 500,000 operational hours across over 100 active customers and appears on the Blue UAS list.
Source: DroneLife
