LEO Satellite Positioning

Student: Trevor Hott, 2022-2023

Sponsor: BI Inc., Boulder, CO

I am working with BI Incorporated, a company headquartered in Boulder, CO that specializes in electronic monitoring. Their tech primarily focuses on supervision services for parolees, probationers, pretrial defendants, and those in the immigration process. Their monitoring technologies rely on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which are susceptible to jamming and spoofing, for position information. Connectivity is served by cellular carriers whose coverage in rural and remote regions may be limited. My goal is to help solve these problems by evaluating the technology and specifications of Low Earth Orbital (LEO) satellite companies to see if their solutions provide an answer to those issues.