For decades, the promise of centimeter-level precision for dynamic navigation applications has been blocked by a series of high hurdles. You could have accuracy, provided your application could justify the use of $10,000+ inertial navigation systems (INS). You could have reliability, if you stuck to static survey applications and stayed clear of skyscrapers and urban canyons. Or you could use low-cost GNSS components, if you compromise accuracy and are locked up with the vendor’s limited, one-size-fits-all navigation software.
At CES 2026, Point One Navigation and STMicroelectronics teamed up to flatten the track and to show attendees that a scalable, accurate, affordable and dynamic solution is ready to go – today!
If you work with localization technologies, you’ll appreciate that the Las Vegas Strip presents a high degree of difficulty when it comes to GNSS environments. Shiny high-rise hotels create multipath satellite and radio signal reflections and occlusions; dense webs of overpasses and bridges block GNSS satellite signals; and cellular congestion causes lengthy communication outages as you travel through the city. These conditions normally degrade a standard receiver’s confidence to several meters. But these types of conditions are reality in many applications, which is why we chose CES in Las Vegas as the proving ground for our latest collaboration.
By bundling the newest ST Teseo 6 receiver with the Point One RTK Network and Positioning Engine software, we created a drop-in localization stack that delivers a breakthrough in price-to-performance, while providing unparalleled precision you can further tune to your specific application.
Read on to learn how our live demonstration project at CES ran uninterrupted for 3 days, mirroring the types of challenges your project will face in the real world.
$50,000 Accuracy on a Minimal Budget
The objective of this demo was to prove that affordable, mass-market silicon can now match the performance of elite reference systems, and that a fully integrated, end-to-end solution from ST and Point One is ready for you to use in your navigation project today! And while a few other providers make similar claims, this solution is unique in its reliability, scalability, and tunability for complex real-world applications.
In keeping with our culture to tackle the most challenging conditions head on, our live demonstration was centered at the Wynn resort, right in the middle of the worst traffic and communications melee of CES. Several limousines hosted the combined STMicroelectronics Teseo 6 / Point One Positioning Engine solution for 3 continuous days, as they shuttled executives between multiple sites across Las Vegas, streaming location and navigation data from the solution to the demonstration booth. Visitors interacted with the live demonstration to witness how the solution performed as well as a $50,000 high-end reference system in our own Atlas Duo INS—a standalone, reference-quality system. The demonstration used a live map allowing visitors to zoom down to the stripes in the lanes in the streets, and see the sub-lane-level accuracy for themselves.
Anatomy of the Rig: How We Built It
To demonstrate the system’s resilience, we outfitted a fleet of courtesy limousines with a custom-built Point One navigation rig. These rigs weren’t built with lab prototypes; they are fully functional, integrated systems available today, and in use by ST / Point One customers in their own upcoming product releases.
Each rig consisted of:
- The Measurement Core: An ST Teseo 6 GNSS Receiver simultaneously tracks L1, L2, L5 and E6 signals across all modern satellite constellations with impressive antijam and low signal tracking.
- The Inertial Core: An ST ASM330LHH automotive-grade, 6-axis IMU. This was critical for maintaining heading and position during extended GNSS-denied moments—like when a limo passed under a web of pedestrian bridges crossing the Las Vegas Strip connecting the casinos, or driving under the roofs of the airport arrival lanes.
- The Ground Truth: A Point One Atlas Duo INS. This “truth system” is commonly used by OEMs as a reference system during development. We used it in these rigs to constantly validate the Teseo 6 performance in real-time. The solution in the limo included a tablet showing both systems’ live output on a lane-level map for comparison.
- The Connectivity Hub: An industrial-grade wireless router with a cellular modem and a battery power bank. This streamed the RTK corrections to the vehicle from the Point One service and the live dashcam and precise position telemetry back to the live, zoomable map in the Wynn demonstration booth. This infrastructure enabled us to deploy the rigs in the leased limos within minutes; in a production application, the solution would use the infrastructure native to the vehicle itself.
Technical Performance: Conquering the Urban Canyon
The challenge of the Las Vegas Strip goes beyond just dealing with blocked and reflected satellite signals; it’s about continuously managing an extremely dynamic and noisy RF environment, and maintaining a trustworthy precise location signal regardless of the motion of the vehicles. Here’s how the ST Teseo 6 and Point One solution delivered reliable performance:
- Multi-Constellation, Multi-Band Acquisition: The Teseo 6’s quad-band (L1, L2, L5, E6) capabilities and 192 tracking channels are instrumental in obtaining all GNSS signals available across Las Vegas at any particular time. In highly reflective environments that cause severe multipath signals, access to more satellites across different frequencies significantly increases the probability of maintaining a strong GNSS/RTK fix.
- Sensor Fusion for Dead Reckoning: Critical to GNSS-challenged zones is Point One’s Positioning Engine software, which integrates cleanly with the inertial signals from the ST ASM330LHH IMU. When the limos drove under overpasses or airport roofs, these DR (dead reckoning) algorithms leveraged the IMU’s accelerometer and gyroscope data to accurately predict the vehicle’s trajectory. The result is a smooth, continuous precise location signal for onboard navigation, and in the case of our CES demonstration, producing a precise, sub-lane level trace on the map.
- Sub-Lane-Level Accuracy for the Last Mile: The activity of limos picking up and dropping off executives at exact locations was similar to some last mile delivery scenarios. Last mile delivery is an especially challenging application, which demands a precise location solution of this caliber. This can include a delivery person locating an apartment door, or an autonomous delivery robot navigating sidewalks, or a drone landing on a special docking station.
- Global Coverage, Local Precision: Our RTK Corrections Network—with over 2,000+ base stations and 99.9% uptime—delivers corrections with 1-3cm accuracy across five continents. Even for our demonstration at CES, no RTK base station was required – the rigs in the limos simply used the existing always-on RTK corrections network spanning the entire United States.
- In-Field Observability: Our GraphQL API is a first-class citizen throughout the Point One solution. With no additional coding required, it provided the live telemetry from each rig showing solution status, satellite visibility, and correction quality, and streamed it to the demonstration booth in the Wynn. This level of transparency is a core tenet of Point One’s comprehensive and modern location stack.
Integrate, Don’t Build
If you are an architect or engineer developing the next autonomous vehicle, robot, drone, mower, personal transport, human assistant, delivery service, or any other application that requires localization and navigation, the takeaway is that high precision is available in an integrated solution for you to use today.
The affordability of ST’s Teseo 6 removes the cost barriers in your bill of materials (BOM), and the precision that Point One created for its most advanced reference navigation system is now available on the Teseo 6, greatly simplifying the software complexity of your application.
Are you ready to get centimeter-level accuracy for your application? Try RTK corrections free for 14 days or book a technical deep-dive now with an engineer to get you started.