Cooperative IFF
Decided at
the trigger.
Soldiers, drones, robots and weapon systems prove to each other who is friendly and how far away. Device to device, at the decision moment, without GPS or a network.
Identify before you act.
Device to device, in the final second
How it works
Two nodes meet. They authenticate cryptographically, then measure their distance with Secure Ranging. Only a valid key at the right distance counts as a friend.
- 1Radio dialog
- 2Credential check
- 3Secure ranging
- 4Decision
Technical specifications
Preliminary, subject to change- Identification range
- up to 500 m
- Identification latency
- ~70 ms
- Signal bandwidth
- >500 MHz
- Transmit power
- up to 10 dBm
- Receiver sensitivity
- up to −110 dBm
- Ranging
- Secure Ranging
- GNSS dependency
- None
- Interface
- UART
- Supply voltage
- 3.3–5 V
- Power consumption
- ~300 mW
- Start-up / boot time
- ~500 ms
- Re-keying time
- <10 s
- Hardware security
- ARM TrustZone
- Dimensions*
- 59.8 × 53.7 × 8.9 mm
- Weight*
- ~28 g
- Operating temperature*
- −20 °C to +50 °C
* Reference configuration. Final values depend on platform integration.
Soldier and weapon
Warns when a friend is in the line of fire. Hand-held or on the rifle rail.
Drones
FPV and interceptor drones recognise own troops and own drones.
Ground systems
UGVs and weapon stations hold fire on friends.
Built for the EW fight
No GNSS, no C2 link. Short-lived keys, revocation, re-keying in under 10 s.