Swift Navigation and Bad Elf Partner to Bring the Power of Precision to Field Workers in Construction and Utilities
July 15 2024 - 12:00PM
UK Regulatory
Swift Navigation and Bad Elf Partner to Bring the Power of
Precision to Field Workers in Construction and Utilities
Swift’s Skylark Precise Positioning Service pairs with
Bad Elf’s Flex and Flex Mini receivers for a plug-and-play solution
that delivers centimeter accurate positioning around the world.
Visit booth 526 at the Esri User Conference this week to learn
more.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Swift Navigation, a market leader in precise positioning
technologies for automotive, IoT and mobile applications, today
announced its partnership with Bad Elf, a leading provider of GNSS
receivers for GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and survey.
Through this collaboration, Swift and Bad Elf deliver a complete,
turnkey solution for high volume and high precision GIS data
collection.
GIS data enables workers across industries to create precise
digital maps (showing the location of buried infrastructure, for
example) that improve worker safety and efficiency in construction,
utilities, and environmental management. But historically,
centimeter-accurate GIS location data could only be gathered by
licensed surveyors using expensive and relatively complex
equipment, causing inefficiencies.
The combination of BadElf’s affordable and user-friendly GNSS
receivers with Swift’s reliable, high-accuracy precise positioning
solutions tackles this challenge head-on. Using the combined
solution, field teams can quickly and easily capture
centimeter-accurate location data on any tablet or smartphone. This
enables field teams to more quickly and safely perform maintenance,
dig trenches, and avoid hazards like high-voltage wires.
“We are thrilled to partner with Bad Elf to bring
centimeter-accurate positioning to GIS professionals around the
world” said Holger Ippach, Executive Vice President of Product
& Marketing at Swift Navigation. “This partnership advances our
shared mission to harness the power of precision to unlock
affordable mass market solutions that improve safety and efficiency
across industries.”
Swift’s Skylark® Precise Positioning Service is a
cloud-based GNSS corrections service that enables accurate and
reliable positioning for location-based products around the world.
Skylark is offered in multiple variants to unlock the broadest
possible array of use cases, each with varying requirements for
accuracy, coverage, power consumption, and cost.
Bad Elf provides high performance GNSS receivers built for
modern GIS mapping applications. Bad Elf’s line of Flex and Flex
Mini receivers stream location data to any Bluetooth equipped
device, including Apple, Android, and Windows, enabling GIS
professionals to break free from vendor lock-in. When paired with
Skylark, Bad Elf receivers deliver accuracy down to one centimeter
and a fix within seconds. The combined solution is ideal for field
workers who need reliable high-accuracy positioning with a simple
and easy-to-use interface.
“Bad Elf is committed to democratizing GNSS data so GIS
professionals can independently collect spatial data and leverage
the rapidly expanding marketplace of GIS applications,” said Larry
Fox, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Bad
Elf. “By partnering with Swift Navigation, our customers now have
more flexibility to deploy solutions that deliver the precision
they need for their unique requirements.”
To learn more about the joint solution between Swift Navigation
and Bad Elf, visit booth 526 at the Esri User Conference on July
15-19, 2024.
ABOUT SWIFT NAVIGATION
Swift Navigation is changing the way we understand and navigate the
planet. Swift’s Skylark is the only global cloud-based precise
positioning service built from the ground up to unlock new mass
market use cases across industries at scale. ISO-certified to meet
automotive safety standards for L2+ autonomy and delivered through
carrier-grade networks with full redundancy in every system and
connection, Skylark delivers reliable, centimeter-accurate
positioning for more than 8 million safety-critical devices
globally. Skylark is highly configurable, compatible with a wide
range of GNSS chipsets, modules, and receivers, and packaged into
rigorously tested and proven solutions for multiple industries.
Visit swiftnav.com/skylark to learn more.
ABOUT BAD ELF
Bad Elf's line of GNSS receivers empowers GIS and survey
professionals to collect high-accuracy field data using any phone,
tablet, or laptop. Our products work with any location-based app on
iOS, Android, or Windows. All Bad Elf Bluetooth receivers have an
integrated LCD screen with an intuitive user interface to provide
status information and perform standalone data collection when
needed.
Bad Elf's products and services evolve within an iterative
framework of learning from our customers. Bad Elf applies diverse
and deep technical skills to deliver exceptional offerings that
solve real-world challenges. Within this mindset, the whole team
challenges themselves to create sufficiently advanced technology to
benefit the consumer as Engineering Magic®. While our
solutions manifest as technology built for today, they allow us to
respond nimbly to continuous change and explore opportunities in
partnership with our customers. Visit www.bad-elf.com to learn
more.
Bad Elf, Bad Elf Flex, and Engineering Magic are registered
trademarks of Bad Elf, LLC.
Apple, iOS, and MFI are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.
Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG.
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