Swift Navigation, a leader in precise positioning technology, announced that its Swift Partner Program has grown to include over 20 GNSS receiver manufacturers, establishing it as the largest hardware ecosystem among GNSS correction providers. This milestone, achieved less than two years after the program’s launch in October 2023, is accelerating the adoption of precise positioning in mass-market applications across automotive, robotics, mobile, and mapping.
Centimeter-accurate, reliable, and cost-effective positioning technologies are key to unlocking vehicle autonomy, industrial automation, and next-generation location-based mobile applications. However, integrating precise positioning can add complexity and cost to the product design cycle, which can delay product launches and lead to suboptimal user experiences. By enabling precise positioning at scale, Swift Navigation and its partners are accelerating the deployment of autonomy and automation across industries.
“Reaching this milestone with over 20 partners is a powerful validation of our ecosystem-first strategy,” said Holger Ippach, Executive Vice President of Product and Marketing at Swift Navigation. “We believe that by creating an open and collaborative platform, we empower our customers to select the best hardware for their needs, streamline their design process, and future-proof their investments. This success is a shared one, and it highlights how our collective efforts are making precise positioning more accessible and scalable than ever before."
Ecosystem-Driven by Design
Swift's ecosystem approach is redefining how precise positioning scales by enabling correction delivery across the industry’s broadest hardware base, from chipsets to complete systems. This receiver-agnostic strategy provides customers with a wide range of interoperable components and options for any stage of the design cycle. The Swift Partner Program solidifies Swift’s leadership among correction service providers, offering unmatched interoperability and accelerating time-to-market for OEMs and device makers.
Customers can maintain complete control over their hardware roadmap, selecting the best components for their needs without being tied to a proprietary corrections stack. The Skylark™ Precise Positioning Service's receiver-agnostic architecture supports integration at every level of the technology stack, giving partners the flexibility to build low-power modules, multi-frequency systems, or full-featured receivers.
Swift’s collaborative method spans the entire OEM lifecycle, including:
- Co-defining precision targets from the outset.
- Validating designs through joint testing of early samples in labs.
- Rigorously field-testing in real-world use case conditions to ensure performance at scale.
This positions Swift as a key infrastructure layer for precise positioning that is hardware-agnostic, scalable, and capable of supporting mass adoption across various industries.
Built-in Customer Benefits
Swift’s ecosystem approach delivers several key benefits to customers:
- Streamlined Design: Provides a wide array of interoperable components, allowing developers to optimize for performance, cost, and footprint, and even retrofit existing systems.
- Minimized Costs: Customers have access to multiple hardware vendors and flexible pricing options, which minimizes costs and avoids lock-in.
- Accelerated Integration: Deep OEM collaboration, rigorously tested mass deployed components, and joint debugging reduce integration risk and accelerate the integration process.
Continuous Innovation & Future-Proofing
Swift’s technology is designed to evolve quickly to keep customers ahead.
- Future-Proof Receiver Investment: Skylark can ingest new satellites and signals as they launch, maximize the precision of quad-frequency receivers, and boost the accuracy of cost-effective receivers.
- Continuous Improvements: Swift continuously expands coverage based on customer needs and uses machine learning to improve accuracy and adapt to atmospheric variability in real time.
- Freedom to Evolve: Partners can switch, upgrade, or expand their hardware without changing their corrections pipeline.
