Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS
positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, today announced a partnership
with Deutsche Telekom, one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications
companies. This partnership brings the precise positioning of Swift’s Skylark™
Cloud Corrections Services to Telekom’s comprehensive communications
infrastructure via its new Precise Positioning product offering. The Precise
Positioning service is currently available across the United States and
Germany, with expansion across Europe already underway.
The future is filled with possibilities
for autonomous applications. From self-driving cars, rail, autonomous robotic
machine navigation, autonomous flight for unmanned aerial vehicles, last-mile
delivery logistics and construction safety to shared mobile positioning, the
requirement for autonomy is accuracy. Swift and Telekom’s lane-level accurate
Precise Positioning is specifically poised to benefit level 2 and 3 automotive
applications including advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), such as lane
assist, highway autopilot, cellular vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communications
and lane level directions.
Standard
GNSS positioning is accurate to three to five meters which is not suitable for
autonomous systems. For higher levels of autonomous capability, high-precision
localization is required to deliver accuracy down to the centimeter. This
partnership brings the <10cm accuracy of Swift’s precise positioning
solution to Telekom customers.
Precise
Positioning is a wide area, cloud-based GNSS corrections service that delivers
real-time high-precision positioning to autonomous vehicles. Built from the
ground-up for autonomy at scale, the Precise Positioning service enables
lane-level positioning, fast convergence times and high integrity and
availability required by mass market automotive and autonomous applications.
The service is hardware-independent, allowing customers to choose their GNSS sensor
ecosystem. It delivers a continuous stream of multi-constellation,
multi-frequency GNSS corrections for a high-availability service that combines
lane-level accuracy and world-class integrity at a continental scale.
“Swift
Navigation is excited to continue our work with Telekom to bring Swift’s
precise positioning GNSS expertise to Telekom’s broad customer base,” said
Timothy Harris, Co-Founder and CEO at Swift Navigation. “This partnership is
just the beginning of our joint service offering for autonomous vehicles across
the EU.”
“Precise Positioning opens the doors to true
autonomous mobility. Precise, safe and in the future also cross-national,”
says Hagen Rickmann, responsible for business customers at Deutsche Telekom.
“We are thus offering our customers an easy entry into the autonomous
future. And we’re not just thinking of self-driving vehicles: The flexible
offer is also suitable for use with drones and is even of interest to crane
operators on construction sites.”
For ease in testing and integration,
Swift and Telekom have created a Precise Positioning Evaluation Kit. This kit
includes two workshops (onboarding and result review), testing hardware and
software to connect to the Precise Positioning network for a three-month
evaluation period and is available to purchase.
To learn more or get Precise Positioning
integrated into your autonomous application visit https://iot.telekom.com/en/solutions/precise-positioning.
