Swift Navigation Enhances Centimeter-Accurate GNSS Technology with Piksi Multi Firmware 1.1 Release
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Swift Navigation Enhances Centimeter-Accurate GNSS Technology with Piksi Multi Firmware 1.1 Release

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 23, 2017) - Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based startup building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power a world of autonomous vehicles, today announced the first major firmware upgrade to its flagship product Piksi® Multi GNSS Module. The upgrade is available at no cost to Piksi Multi users and expands on dynamic RTK application support, increasing functionality for users, expanding use case applications and allowing users to better leverage existing infrastructure and facilitate post-processing.

Firmware Version 1.1 Updates Include:

"This firmware release incorporates robust improvements, fixes bugs and adds new features that make Piksi Multi even more useful for a wider array of applications," said Colin Beighley, Co-Founder of Swift Navigation. "For example, we now support USB data logging and RINEX conversion for survey and post-processed kinematic use cases. We've also made large improvements in fundamental receiver performance -- achieving Fixed Integer RTK after an outage is 10 seconds faster on average."

There are also additional third-party drivers available for Piksi Multi:

For more detailed information about these upgrades, please refer to the Piksi Multi Firmware 1.1 Release. For detailed instructions on how to upgrade your Piksi Multi device, refer to Section 7 of the Getting Started Guide -- entitled Piksi Multi - Upgrading Firmware. For firmware release binaries and product support documentation visit support.swiftnav.com.

ABOUT SWIFT NAVIGATION

Swift Navigation, Inc. was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry's first low-cost, high accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of the price of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation's technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications -- including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.'s 2016 and Forbes 2017 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Learn more online at swiftnav.com, follow Swift on Twitter @Swiftnav



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