Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) firm and Taoglas, a leading provider of advanced technology for a smarter world, have announced a strategic partnership to develop high-precision GNSS solutions for a broad customer base, including autonomous vehicles, automotive, mobile and mass-market applications.
Starting with the Taoglas EDGE Locate IoT platform and EDGE RTK Starter Kit pre-integrated with Swift’s Skylark precise positioning service, this partnership will provide seamless positioning solutions for automotive, micro-mobility, delivery, robotic and industrial customers. Bringing pre-integrated, high-accuracy positioning products to these industries in an easy-to-implement solution will greatly improve the accuracy of the positioning data delivered, creating a multitude of operational efficiencies.
Together, Swift and Taoglas will deliver high-precision GNSS solutions to customers around the globe by utilizing Taoglas’ IoT platforms and Swift’s Skylark seamless, cloud-based corrections—available in advanced SSR (State Space Representation) or industry standard formats. The proven performance of Taoglas products with Skylark, will allow customers to bypass module-level validation, integration and engineering efforts; Swift and Taoglas have done the work to deliver an out-of-the-box solution.
“Swift Navigation is excited to begin this partnership with Taoglas and align our visions of making accurate positioning easily accessible across industries,” said Swift CEO, Timothy Harris. “We look forward to offering our products as an integrated solution to make it easier for customers across the globe to benefit from affordable and accurate positioning.”
Commenting on the partnership, Ronan Quinlan, Co-Founder and Joint CEO of Taoglas said “We are delighted to be partnering with Swift Navigation to enable companies to overcome the challenges of delivering their high-precision positioning based IoT solutions.” He added, “our worldwide team of design, development, test and manufacturing engineers is dedicated to delivering IoT software and hardware solutions on time, the first time for leading technology enterprises.”
