Moscow allocated 1.4 billion rubles to create its own navigation system for transport, which will work without satellites

Moscow allocates 1.385 billion rubles. to create its own undisputed system for accurate positioning of transport. The corresponding tender for the development of a software and technical complex was published on electronic trading platforms on December 29, 2025.

According to CNews, Mosgortrans is the customer of the work. The goal of the project is to ensure reliable tracking of the location of vehicles in the context of failures of global satellite systems GPS and GLONASS, which may arise due to security measures in the capital.

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Фото: Mosgortrans

The system will be based on a network of 85 thousand stationary positioning devices. They will be equipped with Bluetooth modules version 5.2 or higher for communication with on-board transport equipment. The devices will receive a protected case, a lithium battery and will be able to work autonomously for up to one year.

The document states that the system should support simultaneous connection of at least 300 thousand vehicles with the ability to scale up to 900 thousand. A vehicle refers not only to public but also to private transport, including means of individual mobility.

The work is designed for 1110 calendar days and should be completed by the end of 2028. The project is divided into three stages. The first includes the development and deployment of software within 180 days, the second provides for the mass installation and configuration of all 85 thousand devices, and the third is dedicated to system maintenance and support.

Devices must handle a minimum of 100,000 requests per second and provide 99.18% availability. The architecture of the system will be built on microservices and containerization. DBMS PostgreSQL Message brokers Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ are also planned to be used. Everything software should meet the requirements of import substitution and be included in the Register of domestic software.^[1]

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