ALIS still shows you where things are.

ALIS keeps you sure about where people, vehicles and assets really are, even indoors, underground and in hard-to-reach places. It uses the sensors already in your devices, not satellites or Wi-Fi.

$35B Annual freight fraud losses in the US alone*
500% Increase in GPS spoofing incidents since 2023
1,500+ Flights affected by GPS interference daily

By integrating physics-based modeling with artificial intelligence, iDvera sets a new standard of trusted location intelligence that is resilient, verifiable, and secure. ATI is proud to support iDvera as they develop their technology and expand their impact across mission-critical applications where trust, accuracy, and reliability are crucial.

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Austin Technology Incubator
The University of Texas at Austin

Location failures are already front-page news

From hijacked freight to jammed airspace, GPS and related signals are already being manipulated at scale. Here are recent examples from major outlets.

How ALIS works

Not breaking physics. Giving it more to work with.

Most location systems assume GPS, Wi-Fi or cell towers are telling the truth. When those signals are jammed, spoofed, blocked or just wrong, everything built on top of them fails.

ALIS doesn't start from the network. It starts from physics, using the physical world as its reference frame and fusing it with the sensor data your devices already produce, via physics-native AI models that estimate where something is and how sure you can be.

ALIS is modular by design: it can ingest different combinations of sensors and run in different environments without changing the core physics-native AI engine or code path. Turning on additional channels simply gives that same engine more to work with.

One physics-native engine, plug-in sensor channels

Physics as the anchor

ALIS treats the physical world as the starting point, not an afterthought. Instead of trusting whatever the network reports, it checks whether a claimed location is even physically plausible. If a location would require the laws of nature to be wrong, ALIS treats it as suspect, regardless of what GPS, Wi-Fi or the app says.

More signals, same devices

ALIS works with sensors that already exist in modern devices and infrastructure, and gets stronger as you add more channels over time. It can run on a baseline set of sensors alone, or pull from additional signals such as BLE or other available channels to refine where a device is and how stable that estimate is.

Position and assurance, not just coordinates

For each burst of readings, ALIS converges on likely locations and assigns confidence to each. It provides a position in GPS-denied or otherwise untrusted environments – outdoors, indoors, underground and in contested areas – and feeds that location and confidence into identity, KYC and access-control workflows as a separate, physics-native signal.

How ALIS compares

Different positioning technologies have different strengths and vulnerabilities. ALIS fills the gaps where GPS and other methods fail.

Capability
GPS / GNSS
Wi-Fi
Cellular / 5G
ALIS
Works outdoors Yes Limited Yes Yes
Works indoors No Yes Degraded Yes
Works underground No If deployed No Yes
Resistant to spoofing No No Partial Yes
No infrastructure required Yes No No Yes
Works in urban canyons Degraded Variable Variable Yes
Uses device sensors only No No No Yes
Yes = Full support
Partial = Limited or conditional
No = Not supported

Industries

iDvera works with organizations where trusted location is foundational to safety, integrity and compliance. Our focus spans freight verification, identity assurance, infrastructure resilience, emergency response and critical operations in GPS-denied environments.

Freight and logistics

Freight & logistics

Verify carriers. Validate loads. Stop fraud before it starts.

The freight industry loses billions annually to double-brokering, cargo theft and identity fraud, often hidden behind spoofed GPS and VPNs. ALIS uses device sensors and physics-native models to give brokers, shippers and carriers a high-confidence signal of where drivers and equipment actually are, not just where they claim to be.

  • Location-backed carrier and driver verification at pickup and delivery
  • Double-broker and relay fraud detection through location pattern analysis
  • Chain-of-custody and audit-ready trails for high-value and high-risk freight
Identity and access control

Identity, access & 4MFA

Location as the fourth authentication factor.

Traditional MFA and device checks rarely prove where someone is physically located, which weakens zero-trust and workforce KYC. ALIS adds a sensor-derived location factor, giving security teams a separate signal that high-risk actions happened only from verified places, even when GPS or network data are easy to manipulate.

  • Geofenced access to sensitive systems, data and workflows
  • Workforce presence verification for compliance, KYC/KYB and remote work policies
  • Detection of anomalous access patterns based on unexpected location behavior
Critical infrastructure

Critical infrastructure & OT

Secure operations in GPS-denied and contested environments.

Energy grids, water systems and industrial facilities increasingly face GPS jamming, spoofing and outages in the environments where safety and uptime matter most. ALIS provides GPS-independent positioning for crews and assets, so OT teams can see where work is really happening and cross-check that against the physical world instead of relying on satellite signals alone.

  • Substation, pipeline and facility access verification independent of GPS
  • Maintenance and field crew location documentation for safety and audit
  • Underground and indoor facility positioning for critical operations
Financial services, payments and KYC

Financial services, payments & KYC

High-integrity location for high-stakes transactions.

Trading, payments and custody operations are under growing pressure to prove physical presence for high-risk activities, not just logins and IP addresses. ALIS supplies a physics-native location signal that plugs into KYC/KYB and AML workflows, helping institutions separate legitimate activity from location-based fraud that bypasses GPS and IP checks.

  • Trading floor and branch presence verification for regulated activities
  • Cross-border and high-value transaction location attestation
  • ATM and point-of-sale fraud detection using location consistency checks
Asset tracking

Asset tracking & indoor navigation

Precision positioning where GPS can't reach.

Warehouses, factories and large facilities need accurate positioning for inventory, equipment and people, but GPS doesn't work indoors and adding new beacon infrastructure everywhere is costly. ALIS uses the existing physical environment and device sensors to deliver fine-grained indoor positioning, plus a confidence measure so operators know when to trust what they see.

  • Warehouse inventory and forklift tracking without new beacons
  • Autonomous robot and AGV navigation in complex indoor layouts
  • Personnel safety support, including evacuation tracking and mustering
Public sector

Public sector & emergency ops

Mission-critical positioning when it matters most.

First responders, defense and government teams often operate indoors, underground, in urban canyons or contested areas where GPS is unreliable or unavailable. ALIS gives them a position and a confidence score that holds up in GPS-denied environments, supporting command-and-control, accountability and post-event review.

  • First responder and team positioning inside buildings and complex structures
  • Search and rescue coordination in GPS-denied or degraded environments
  • GPS-denied positioning for contested or jammed environments, supporting mission planning and after-action review

If any of this matches what you're seeing on the ground, we should talk.

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Perspectives

How physics-based positioning becomes a trust layer for identity, logistics and infrastructure.

About iDvera

iDvera exists because our founder watched a "trusted" location story fall apart. While consulting for a SaaS company, he was asked to quietly validate two new hires who were supposed to be based in Chicago. Their schedules looked identical, they were often offline at odd hours, and every digital signal (VPN, device checks, IP-based location) still said "Chicago."

One day both accounts briefly came online without the usual VPN, revealing they weren't in Chicago, they weren't within CONUS as required, and they weren't even two people – it was one individual posing as two employees from overseas.

That experience raised a simple question existing tools couldn't answer reliably: "How do you know someone is where they say they are?" iDvera was started to answer that question. Greg, the founder and inventor of ALIS, spent several years developing the physics-native technology behind the system, working closely with his father, to figure out how to verify location alongside identity, KYC/KYB, fraud and access-control data.

As the technology matured, the company needed more than an invention. Greg's father joined as a co-founder, and in 2025 Stephen Kaniewski, former CEO of Valmont Industries, joined as a co-founder as well, bringing deep experience in industrial infrastructure, global operations and customer relationships. Stephen has helped shape how iDvera shows up in the market and get ALIS in front of the organizations that need it most.

Today, the founding team is evolving ALIS into both a verification layer and a location capability that can operate even when GPS and common wireless signals are missing, jammed or untrustworthy, so "where" can stand as a signal organizations can actually trust.

Team

A focused, technical team operating at the intersection of physics, navigation and security, with a mandate to deliver a system that is straightforward for organizations to adopt.

Greg Steinberg
Greg Steinberg M.S., MBA
Founder & CTO

Greg leads the vision for ALIS and iDvera's physics-native location assurance system. He holds multiple patents in GPS-independent positioning and location verification technology. His background spans navigation systems, position-assurance and work with defense and critical-infrastructure stakeholders.

Stephen Kaniewski
Stephen Kaniewski
Co-founder & COO

Former CEO of Valmont Industries, a publicly-traded Fortune 1000 industrial manufacturing company. Stephen brings deep experience in M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and scaling operations from mid-market to enterprise level—including selling mission-critical equipment to defense contractors and industrial operators.

Dr. Samuel Steinberg
Dr. Samuel Steinberg MBA, Ph.D.
Co-founder & CEO

30+ years of healthcare leadership and operational expertise. Former CEO of Hahnemann University Hospital / Graduate Hospital, leading large academic medical center operations. Former Executive Vice President at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, overseeing institutional strategy and operational excellence.

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