Swift Navigation: Pioneering Precision Positioning Solutions for Global Navigation Excellence

In the realm of navigation and geographical understanding, Swift Navigation emerges as a transformative force, reshaping how we perceive and traverse our planet. Through its precise positioning technology platform, Swift revolutionizes location accuracy, elevating it from mere meters to centimeter-level precision, a feat embraced by millions of devices worldwide. Trusted across various industries, Swift's technology fosters safer driving, enhances last-mile delivery efficiency, and optimizes commercial transport operations. It also bolsters mobile device accuracy and unlocks new possibilities in rail, robotics, and machine control domains.

Since its inception in 2012, Swift Navigation has been at the forefront of GNSS positioning technology evolution. Originating as the industry's pioneer in low-cost, high-accuracy, real-time kinematic (RTK) receivers, Swift Navigation has evolved into a comprehensive ecosystem of GNSS positioning solutions for autonomous applications. The Starling^® positioning engine stands as a testament to Swift's innovation, offering an integrated software solution for precise positioning. Complementing this is the Skylark™ precise positioning service, which delivers cloud-based GNSS corrections globally, transcending traditional geographical constraints. With products like Piksi^® Multi, Piksi Multi Inertial, and the ruggedized Duro^® and Duro Inertial RTK receivers, Swift empowers users with centimeter-level accuracy at an accessible price point, catalyzing a new era of navigation excellence.

Skylark Precise Positioning Service:

Skylark Precise Positioning Service stands as a pinnacle of innovation, offering cloud-based GNSS corrections to ensure accurate, reliable, and cost-effective location services for a diverse range of applications.

Purpose-Built for Mass Market Deployments: Skylark is meticulously engineered to meet the demands of mass market deployments, providing centimeter-level accuracy with rapid convergence in seconds. Its robust performance is reinforced by commercial-grade service level agreements (SLAs), guaranteeing reliability for mission-critical operations. Furthermore, Skylark seamlessly integrates with various third-party components, offering unparalleled flexibility in deployment.

Expansive Global Coverage: With an expansive coverage map spanning major markets across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, Skylark ensures uniform performance country-wide. Its superior RTK coverage footprint caters to solutions requiring sub-4 cm accuracy, empowering users with precise positioning capabilities regardless of geographical location.

Reliability at its Core: Skylark boasts unparalleled reliability, boasting an impressive 99.9% availability rate. Its end-to-end system redundancy, from ground infrastructure to cloud-based services hosted on AWS, ensures continuous operation even in the face of unexpected challenges. Additionally, Skylark leverages a CORS network operated in partnership with mobile network operators, further enhancing its reliability and resilience.

Empowering Partnerships: Backed by an extensive ecosystem of partners across the technology stack, Skylark offers interoperability with a wide array of mass market chipsets, modules, and applications. This collaborative approach allows for seamless integration and accelerated deployment, enabling partners to design solutions with agility and efficiency.

Starling Positioning Engine: Precision Navigation for Automotive Applications

The Starling Positioning Engine emerges as a cornerstone of precision navigation, meticulously designed for automotive applications necessitating centimeter or decimeter accuracy through the fusion of GNSS and dead reckoning sensor technologies.

Versatile Compatibility: Starling is engineered to seamlessly integrate with a diverse range of GNSS chipsets and inertial sensors, rendering it an ideal solution for mass-market autonomous applications. Its adaptable software, crafted in standard C++, operates seamlessly across various compute platforms, ensuring compatibility and versatility.

Unmatched Accuracy and Integrity: Harnessing the power of commercially available GNSS receivers, Starling delivers centimeter-level accuracy with uncompromising integrity. By leveraging GNSS measurements, Starling facilitates precise position, velocity, and time (PVT) calculations, laying the foundation for robust navigation solutions.

Enhanced Functionality with Sensor Fusion: Starling extends its functionality through the fusion of inertial sensor measurements, wheel odometry, and other sensor inputs. This comprehensive approach enables Starling to not only ascertain precise positioning but also to provide invaluable assistance in localization, decision-making, and control processes, bolstering the capabilities of automotive systems.

Starling Positioning Engine represents a pinnacle of innovation in automotive navigation technology. With its unparalleled accuracy, compatibility, and functionality, Starling empowers automotive applications with the precision and reliability essential for navigating the complexities of modern roads and environments.

Device Ecosystem: Enabling Precise Location Integration

Swift's Skylark^® Precise Positioning Service offers seamless integration with a diverse array of components, facilitating effortless incorporation of precise location capabilities into product designs at any stage of the development cycle.

Streamlined Design: Skylark^® simplifies the design process by offering a wide range of interoperable components. With options available for every stage of the design cycle, designers can optimize for performance, cost, and footprint, ensuring efficient and effective integration of precise location technology.

Cost Optimization: Skylark^® minimizes costs with flexible pricing options and a multitude of hardware vendors to choose from. Built for scalability, Skylark^® enables businesses to expand their operations without incurring significant financial burdens.

Accelerated Time-to-Market: By leveraging rigorously-tested, mass-deployed components, Skylark^® accelerates time-to-market for location-based products. This reduces downstream risk and provides businesses with the agility to adapt and innovate in today's fast-paced market landscape.

Swift's Device Ecosystem, powered by Skylark^® Precise Positioning Service, revolutionizes the integration of precise location technology into product designs. With streamlined design processes, cost optimization, and accelerated time-to-market, businesses can seamlessly incorporate world-class location-based capabilities into their products, ensuring competitiveness and success in the global market.

About | Timothy Harris

Timothy Harris is a co-founder and the CEO of Swift Navigation. He is focused on building a world-class organization that will power the next generation of GPS-enabled autonomous vehicles and robots. A proven leader in the high-accuracy GPS industry, Tim leads teams that are excited to drive innovation and challenge each other to achieve visionary change. Prior to Swift, he worked in supply chain consulting for OR Soft Jaenicke GmbH in Halle, Germany, and in corporate finance for Emerge Digital Group, where he oversaw M&A and strategic partnerships for a digital media holding company.

Tim holds a JD degree from Boston University and a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.