Ukrainian developers have created the "Dovedu" navigation application, which should determine the location of a car even when the GPS is jammed or replaced.
Ukrainian developers have created the "Dovedu" navigation application, which should determine the location of a car even when the GPS is jammed or replaced.
To do this, the developers combined satellite data with the smartphone’s motion sensors, mobile network, Wi-Fi, and road map. According to the team, when traveling in Kyiv, the typical positioning error without GPS is 10-30 meters.
Dovedu was created by a team of data scientists and physicists. Co-founders include Serhiy Golovin, PhD in economic modeling from the University of Minnesota, former Amazon economist and senior scientist at Keystone.ai, and physicist Andriy Chorny, a graduate of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, specializing in computer modeling of physical processes.
"The biggest advantage of "Dovedu" is accuracy and reliability. Our team members have decades of experience in working with ML, modeling physical processes, and navigation. We decided to apply this experience to build a product that can improve the life of Ukrainian cities right now," said Dovedu founder Serhiy Golovin.
The application works on Android 9 and later versions and can be downloaded from Google Play.
The App Store version is available in beta mode.
The service is already available in Ukraine, Israel, the Gulf States, and Europe. The iPhone version is currently in testing.
In addition to individual users, the developers plan to offer the solution to taxi fleets, delivery services, and freight transportation. Another potential area is agricultural machinery, the operation of which can stop due to the loss of GPS signal.
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