At a glance: Point One deploys its owned RTK base stations on Baltic Tower’s pan-Baltic portfolio of roughly 2,700 towers and rooftops. Drone, survey, agriculture, robotics and autonomous vehicle teams across all three Baltic states get 1–2 cm positioning from any RTK-capable GNSS receiver, without the need of reference stations of their own. Baltic Towers also plans to become the first customer of the network it hosts, using Point One RTK to survey its own towers by drone.
SAN FRANCISCO & VILNIUS, October 30th, 2026 – Point One Navigation, the precision location platform used across Physical AI, and Baltic Tower, the first pan-Baltic tower company, today announced a partnership to deploy Point One’s Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections network across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Point One will install and operate its own GNSS reference stations on Baltic Tower sites, across all three countries by the end of 2026.
The Baltics join a European footprint that already includes all of continental Europe. Customers moving across the region get one corrections service, one API, and one account, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Gulf of Finland.
Why the Baltics, why towers?
Standalone GNSS is off by several meters. Atmospheric delay, multipath, and satellite clock error put a receiver somewhere inside a circle the size of a parking space, under optimal conditions. This level of accuracy fails for a drone building an engineering model, a tractor holding a crop row, or a delivery robot finding a curb.
RTK closes that gap by comparing satellite signals against fixed reference stations with surveyed positions. Accuracy depends on how close the nearest station is, which makes density the whole game. Point One builds to under 40 km uniform station spacing, roughly three times denser than typical commercial networks.
Telecom towers are the fastest way to reach that density. They are tall, secured, powered, connected and already spread evenly across the country. Baltic Tower’s portfolio lets Point One place stations where the physics needs them instead of where a rooftop happens to be available, with Point One keeping full ownership and operational control of every station.
“RTK accuracy is set by physics, and the physics says stations have to be close together. Towers are how you get there in months instead of years. Baltic Tower gives us a single partner and a single standard of site across three countries, so a drone operator in Tallinn and a farm in southern Lithuania get the same centimeter accuracy.”
Lucas MCKENNA, Director of Europe, Point One Navigation
How it works
Point One designs and manufactures its base stations in-house in California and France and installs them with its own teams, adding roughly 100 stations a month worldwide. Corrections stream as RTCM over NTRIP to any RTK-capable receiver tracking GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou. No proprietary hardware is required. The same network delivers single-baseline and Network RTK at 1–2 cm, Virtual RTK at 3–7 cm and DGNSS under 1 m, managed through one GraphQL API.
First customer: the tower company itself
Baltic Tower plans to use Point One RTK to survey its own towers by drone. Each flight produces a measured 3D model of the structure and every antenna, dish, and mount on it, positioned to 1–2 cm horizontally and 2–3 cm vertically. Antenna azimuths reference true north instead of a compass reading distorted by the tower’s steel. This modeling saves countless hours for Baltic Tower as they build digital twins of their tower infrastructure.
Who this partnership serves
- Drone survey and inspection, including telecom, energy and rail infrastructure
- Precision agriculture: guidance, variable-rate application and autonomous equipment
- Construction, land survey and digital twins
- Delivery and industrial robotics
- Automotive and autonomous vehicles crossing Baltic and EU borders
About Point One Navigation
Point One Navigation is the precision location platform for companies building autonomous and location-dependent products at scale. It pairs the world’s densest fully owned RTK corrections network, with under 40 km station spacing and 99.99% uptime, with a sensor-fusion positioning engine and a GraphQL API. Learn more at pointonenav.com.
About Baltic Tower
Baltic Tower Company, headquartered in Lithuania, is the first tower company covering all three Baltic states, formed in 2026 by Tele2 and Global Communications Infrastructure (GCI), backed by Manulife Investment Management. It owns around 2,700 tower and rooftop sites across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with Tele2 as anchor tenant and a 10-year plan to build new sites. Learn more at Baltic Tower Company: Posts | LinkedIn
Media contacts
Point One Navigation: press@pointonenav.com
Baltic Towers: info@baltictowers.com
