Swift Navigation’s Skylark Precise Positioning Service has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 Automotive News PACE Awards. 

SAN FRANCISCO, August 19, 2024 — Swift Navigation, a leading provider of precise positioning technologies for automotive, IoT, and mobile applications, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 Automotive News PACE Awards. Swift’s Skylark Precise Positioning Service delivers reliable, high-integrity, lane-level positioning to unlock functionally safe L3 autonomous driving systems at automotive scale.

L3 autonomous vehicles are here – but they are limited to small scale, location-dependent deployments. Three key obstacles stand in the way of mass market adoption: reliability, cost, and safety.

Skylark addresses all three of these challenges head-on. Skylark enables reliable centimeter-accurate positioning that complements perception-based sensors (such as cameras, radar and LiDAR) to ensure the safe operation of autonomous systems in any environment – including in heavy rain, snow, and areas without lane markings – while unlocking significant reductions in compute costs. Safe and precise positioning also underpins V2X technology use cases as a key component of the shared data.

Earlier this year, Skylark became the first real-time cloud-based service of any kind to be certified to the ISO 26262:2018 standard for the functional safety of road vehicles. With this certification, Skylark can now be commercially deployed in L3 autonomous driving systems around the world.

Skylark previously received the Automotive News PACEpilot Innovations to Watch Award in 2021.

ABOUT SWIFT NAVIGATION

Swift Navigation is at the forefront of transforming how we navigate and understand the world. Its precise positioning solutions enable centimeter-level mapping, tracking, and navigation, unlocking vehicle autonomy, industrial automation, and digital innovation across global industries. Leading organizations leverage Swift’s technology to enhance safety, deploy autonomous vehicles and equipment, optimize logistics, and power next-generation mobile applications. Learn more about Swift Navigation’s pioneering work towards a safer and more connected future at swiftnav.com.