Quantum sensing

GPS is essential, but increasingly vulnerable to outages, jamming, and spoofing in critical real-world environments. With over 1,000 flights a day subject to jamming, the risks to crewed and uncrewed systems across air, land, and sea are growing daily.

Through our focus on how software can augment the performance of quantum sensing hardware, we delivered the first and only commercial quantum navigation system capable of achieving true advantage in flight and ground-based trials.

The resulting system is Ironstone Opal, a compact and powerful quantum navigation system that delivers GPS-like navigation without GPS, for deployment in drones, autonomous cars, and airliners. It uses ultrasensitive quantum sensors, mapping to the Earth's magnetic field, providing secure, passive, and all-weather navigation in GPS-denied environments.

More and more missions require early warning of threats and opportunities. Detecting signals of opportunity in either defense or commercial settings mandates new sensing technologies that are extremely sensitive and ultra-stable. Quantum sensing is the way forward.

Our expert team builds some of the world’s highest-performing, field-deployable quantum sensors tailored to the most demanding needs of our customers. By combining advanced hardware with proprietary software ruggedization, we deliver quantum-enhanced sensing solutions that unlock new capabilities and offer performance no one else can match.

And by focusing on solutions that solve real problems we’re transforming the outlook for quantum advantage. Get in touch to discover more about our quantum-magnetometer-based counter-UAS technology, and our gravimetric and magnetic mapping innovations.

The risk of attack from uncrewed systems is growing, with recent missions in Ukraine and Russia illustrating how significant the threat has become.  Existing counter-UAS systems fail in poor visibility and struggle to distinguish true risks from birds and other natural phenomena.

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In partnership with the US Government and Australian Defence Q-CTRL has been developing a new generation of magnetic detection systems to deliver early warning of inbound drones.  By identifying telltale signals of drone motors, this system can help provide early warning in the dark, and can help distinguish real threats from birds and other harmless background.

Get in touch to learn more about how to add a quantum defense to your infrastructure and personnel.

Quantum control engineering is essential to extract more useful information from the next generation of quantum sensors and to accelerate their deployment in the field. It overcomes imperfections, environmental clutter, and platform noise to realize the true potential of your hardware.

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Based on years of research, we provide infrastructure software solutions for quantum sensing that expand your system’s performance for the missions that matter. They are based on the power of Boulder Opal’s quantum control and intelligent autonomy capabilities, integrating autonomy, resilience, and noise rejection directly into your existing hardware and operational software.  And they’re validated to deliver!

Now you can empower your quantum sensing research with Boulder Opal's validated quantum control and research tools.