LightSaber
TrekAce® Lightsaber application establishes COMMON situational awareness for the tactical level – optimizing survivability and lethality
The Lightsaber addresses critical operational challenges:
Pointing & Directing
Current solutions lack a holistic capability at the tactical or individual warrior level for directing peers to targets.
Reaction Time
Engagement with identified targets is slowed by insufficient real time flow of tactical information.
Accuracy
Verbal explanations or hand gestures often lead to misunderstanding and misdirection between teammates.
Perspective Gaps
Directions from C4I or drones often do not match the ground level perspective, causing confusion and delays.
Friendly Fire Risk
Misinterpretation of teammates’ exact positions leads to critical targeting errors and avoidable casualties.
Location Dependency
When GPS is denied, communications revert to verbal commands and hand signals, reducing effectiveness.
Complex Systems
Existing targeting technologies are complicated, expensive, and require lengthy integration efforts.
Target Acquisition
Generating and uploading fresh targets to C4I is slow and relies on costly platforms (UAVs, drones) or elite SF units. Tactical teams must be empowered to contribute more efficiently to strategic targeting.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Accurate User Position
TrekAce® Non-GNSS tecnology precise user positioning (current coordinates), with or without GPS.
Target Bearing
TrekAce® Non-GNSS tecnology delivers real-time bearing/azimuth – the exact direction the user is facing, looking, or aiming.
Target Range
A compatible legacy or civilian rangefinder provides highly accurate distance measurements (±0.5 m) at operational ranges (up to 1 km).
Using existing equipment allows:
- Rapid deployment.
- No training burden.
- No added weight.
- Seamless integration with TrekAce and legacy C4I systems.
Target Coordinates Generation
TrekAce® NON-GNSS PNT technology provide the user’s
- Accurate user location (GNSS-independent), precise user orientation, establishing the target bearing.
- The rangefinder provides the distance to the target.
- Combining bearing + distance produces precise target coordinates.
ISSUING TACTICAL COMMANDS
- Once the target’s coordinates are obtained, the user receives a tactile confirmation via the CORE sleeve (and an on screen notification, if applicable — e.g., HUD).
- The user can then select the tactical command to be issued.
- The TAPPER gun-mounted controller features four PlayStation style buttons, each mapped to a predefined tactical function (e.g., Go There, Target There, Upload Target to C4I, etc.).
RECEIVING TACTICAL COMMANDS
- Once a command is issued, it is transmitted through the team’s MESH network.
- The LightSaber app translates the communication into intuitive tactile signals on the CORE sleeve.
Examples:
“Go There” triggers navigation haptic cues.
“Target There” triggers directional targeting cues. Upload Target to C4I sends target coordinates to the legacy C4I system.
“Target There” triggers directional targeting cues. Upload Target to C4I sends target coordinates to the legacy C4I system.