The service combines Swift Navigation's Skylark technology with Airtel's Pan-India 4G/5G network to provide a reliable, centimeter-level, accurate positioning platform for mission-critical, large-scale location-based applications.
“In countries like us, in countries with complex lanes and by-lanes, every centimeter makes a difference in identifying the exact location or address, especially for important services like first responders.
“This groundbreaking technology will revolutionize emergency response and not only set new benchmarks for industrial applications, but will quickly track innovations in use cases such as autonomous mobility and satellite-based toll collections.”
The company said a wide range of industries could make services available, including tolls, emergency response, digital mapping, construction, utilities, fleet management and autonomous vehicles.
Key applications for Airtel-Skylark include advanced driver assistance systems and self-driving vehicles to enhance road safety, smart tolls through barrier-free and lane-level solutions, accurate fleet and last-mile delivery management, improved railway safety for optimized input use, and enhanced real-time location services for mobile consumer applications.
The first network rollout plans to gradually expand Pan India later this year, covering 35,000 square kilometres around the Metropolitan Area (NCR).
