Swift and Deutsche Telekom partner to provide positioning technology accurate to less than 10 centimeters for autonomous driving

According to foreign media reports, on March 2, local time, San Francisco technology company Swift Navigation announced a partnership with Deutsche Telekom . The two parties will introduce Swift's Skylark™ Cloud Corrections precise positioning service to Deutsche Telekom's integrated communications infrastructure to provide the latest precise positioning products. Currently, the precise positioning service is available in the United States and Germany and has expanded to Europe. Swift Navigation is a company that redefines GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) technology for self-driving cars, and Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies.

The future world will be filled with various autonomous driving applications, including self-driving cars, railways, autonomous robot machine navigation, autonomous flight of unmanned aerial vehicles, last-mile logistics delivery, building security, shared mobile positioning, etc., and the requirement for automation is accuracy. Swift and Deutsche Telekom's lane-level precise positioning technology is particularly suitable for L2 and L3 autonomous vehicle applications, including advanced driver assistance systems such as lane assistance, highway automation, cellular network vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication, and lane direction guidance.

Standard GNSS positioning technology has an accuracy of 3 to 5 meters, which is not suitable for autonomous driving systems. To achieve higher levels of autonomous driving capabilities, high-precision positioning technology is required to provide centimeter-accurate technology. This cooperation will bring Swift's positioning solution with an accuracy of less than 10 centimeters to Deutsche Telekom's customers.

The precise positioning service is a cloud-based wide-area GNSS correction service that provides high-precision positioning for autonomous driving in real time. Built for large-scale autonomous driving, the service enables lane-level positioning, fast integration into traffic, and high integrity and reliability required for mass-market automotive and autonomous driving applications. The service is hardware-independent and runs on a GNSS sensor ecosystem of the customer's choice, providing a continuous multi-constellation, multi-frequency GNSS correction stream across the European continent for a high-availability service that combines lane-level accuracy with world-class integrity.

To facilitate testing and integration, Swift and Deutsche Telekom have also created a Precise Positioning Evaluation Kit. The kit includes two parts (loading and result review), test hardware and software to connect to the Precise Positioning network, enabling a three-month evaluation, and the kit is currently available for purchase. (All pictures in the article are from Swift)