Honeywell HGuide HG4930 IMU anchors industrial nav line

Honeywell Aerospace marks five years of its HGuide Industrial Navigation group, which adapts inertial navigation technology from the company's defense and aerospace lines for industrial platforms. MEMS inertial measurement units such as the HG4930 and i300 form the core of a family that extends to UAV payload pointing, mapping and autonomous vehicles.

By SamPublished October 27, 2026Updated November 11, 20262 min read

The HGuide group, led by General Manager Paul Farah, was formed to bring Honeywell’s inertial navigation technology to industrial customers at suitable size, weight and cost. Andrew Bundermann, Principal Account Manager for the group, says Honeywell builds tens of thousands of high-performance IMUs a year. A patented calibration process and software are applied to the i300 and HG4930 sensors, and the units are built in an aerospace plant under the same ruggedness standards and quality practices as defense hardware.

One of the first industrial uses of the HG4930 was on a remotely piloted UAV inspecting long stretches of remote power lines. Mounted with the camera gear, the unit tagged every image with its exact position, so the utility could assess line condition without sending a helicopter. Honeywell has since combined its IMUs with GNSS for mapping, UAVs, autonomous vehicles and marine platforms, alongside LiDAR, cameras and velocity sensors.

The anniversary comes with three launches: the o360, g080 and n500. The o360 is a business-card-sized OEM INS/GNSS, and Honeywell says customers see uses for it on airborne, land and marine platforms. The g080 is Honeywell’s first industrial-grade RTK receiver, in a common format, with two RF inputs for heading and mitigation of interference, multipath and spoofing. The n500 packs the higher performance of the n580 INS/GNSS navigator into a smaller housing. With the g080 or a compatible third-party GNSS receiver added, the n500 forms a compact, low-SWaP navigator approaching FOG-based performance.

Why it matters

For integrators of large UAS, the range spans camera and antenna stabilization IMUs through to INS/GNSS navigators, from one supplier with aerospace manufacturing. Receiver-level spoofing mitigation in the g080 and the option to use a third-party GNSS receiver with the n500 leave room to adapt the architecture to different GNSS threat environments.

Honeywell’s HGuide o480 INS/GNSS navigator with AIM+ anti-jamming covers the anti-jamming end of the same family. Buyers comparing MEMS IMUs for stabilization and navigation can also review the ADIS16495 from Analog Devices and the IMU-P from Inertial Labs, which sit in the same directory category as the Honeywell Aerospace IMUs.

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