Swift Navigation and Bad Elf Partner to Bring the Power of Precision to Field Workers in Construction and Utilities
July 15 2024 - 12:00PM
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 NAVIGATIONSwift 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 ELFBad 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.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/71502262-13a3-4063-9f17-5d8516dc4d69
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