Swift’s SkylarkTM Precise Positioning Service wins the ADAS & Safety Technology Award in the AutoTech & Wards 10 Best Awards
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — June 2, 2026 — Swift Navigation, a leader in precise positioning solutions for automotive, IoT, and mass-market applications, today announced that its Skylark™ Precise Positioning Service has won the prestigious 2026 AutoTech Award for ADAS & Safety Technology.
The AutoTech Awards, presented in tandem with the Wards 10 Best Awards at a gala ceremony in Novi, Michigan, celebrate the companies and pioneering technologies driving the connected mobility revolution. Nominated alongside industry innovators, Swift’s Skylark was selected by a panel of expert judges for its real-time functionality, accident prevention capabilities, and its role as an absolute “digital fail-safe” for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
“We are honored to receive this recognition from the AutoTech Awards panel,” said Timothy Harris, Co-Founder and CEO of Swift Navigation. “This milestone is a direct testament to the relentless dedication of our world-class engineering and product teams, who work tirelessly to push the boundaries of precise positioning. More importantly, this achievement belongs to our OEM and fleet partners; their shared vision and collaborative trust have been vital in bringing this safety-critical technology to the open road.”
Closing the Availability Gap: Perception is Not Enough
Modern ADAS architectures—including lane-keep assist and automated emergency braking—rely heavily on optical perception sensors like cameras and LiDAR. In real-world driving environments, these sensors are vulnerable to high-speed blur, blind spots, and lane markings obscured by heavy rain or snow. When standard perception fails, systems often suffer abrupt disengagements, leaving the driver exposed to immediate danger.
Swift Navigation addresses this critical safety gap by offering a high-integrity absolute localization layer. Skylark continuously delivers real-time, centimeter-level accuracy directly into the vehicle’s ADAS software stack. By acting as an unshakeable cloud-connected anchor, Skylark expands the vehicle’s Operational Design Domain (ODD), mitigates perception sensor dropouts, and ensures lane-level tracking even in zero-visibility conditions.
Setting the Industry Gold Standard for Integrity
In safety-critical automotive systems, accuracy is only half the battle; data must also possess integrity. Swift has set an industry benchmark as the first real-time cloud service to achieve ISO 26262 ASIL B certification. This functional safety milestone assures automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers that Skylark’s data is dependable enough to be deployed in “hands-off” Level 2+ and Level 3 autonomous driving configurations.
Today, Swift’s technology is trusted at scale, integrated by more than 20 leading automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, and actively optimizing driver safety profiles across commercial enterprise fleets totaling hundreds of thousands of vehicles worldwide.
To learn more about the award-winning architecture and to see the official announcement from the gala ceremony, view Swift’s official AutoTech Award Announcement on LinkedIn.
For more information on how Skylark is transforming the landscape of vehicle safety, visit https://www.swiftnav.com/solutions/automotive.
About Swift Navigation
Swift Navigation is a global technology company pioneering the location data layer for physical AI. Its SkylarkTM Precise Positioning Service improves the accuracy of standard Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS, from several meters to a few centimeters, unlocking vehicle autonomy and industrial automation at global scale. Skylark powers more than 10 million vehicles and devices deployed by leading automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, robotics companies, and IoT system integrators. Learn more about how Swift is building the infrastructure to enable a safer and more productive future at swiftnav.com.