ZaiNar

ZaiNar is developing a real-time automatic location tracking platform for use in areas and systems where GPS/GNSS is either unavailable or denied. The platform uses cellphones, wireless networks, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and chipless RFID tags to make accurate positioning. This allows the system to scale at a lower cost than other systems and enables users to track assets without a line of sight. The system is capable of being used with over 200 meters range and sub-meter accuracy. The system can be used to solve certain needs, such as tracking phones indoors or in dense cities, tracking IoT assets in industrial environments, tracking cars without line of sight, and enabling self-calibrating positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) networks for GPS-denied environments such as space.

ZaiNar was founded in 2016 by CEO Daniel Jacker, CTO Philip Kratz, and Alexander Hooshmand and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

ZaiNar's platform offers an asset tracking platform capable of tracking people, tools, vehicles, inventory, and more in both outdoor and indoor industrial sites, and offers a real-time 3D location of those assets with a meter-level accuracy in difficult environments. The system is developed to sustain performance in changing environments without manual intervention, recalibration, or reliance on other location systems, such as GPS/GNSS. The system uses chipless RFID tags, which can be attached to any asset that needs to be located.

ZaiNar can also use 5G networks to track other types of assets, such as phones, vehicles, drones, and IoT with similar access to their tracking tags. ZaiNair suggests its system is compatible with release 16 of 3GPP standards for location tracking of 5G devices without hardware changes to either the handsets or base stations.