From forest trails to city streets.
Built for pedestrian navigation across diverse terrain, Rahbar is designed to sustain positioning under dense tree cover and between tall buildings, where GPS signals can become unreliable.
POSITIONING RAHBAR / NAVIGATION SDK
Your app.
Their next
adventure.
Bring reliable, motion-aware positioning to your outdoor app—from trail hikes to urban walks, even when GPS is unreliable or unavailable.
Built for the way people move outdoors.
OUT THERE, EVERY STEP MATTERS.
THE EXPERIENCE IS YOURS.
The positioning
is Rahbar.
FOR TEAMS BUILDING Hiking apps Trail experiences Outdoor navigation
01 / THE SDK
A positioning layer.
A world of possibilities.
Our mission is to make reliable positioning and navigation part of every outdoor experience. Rahbar combines inertial sensing, sensor fusion, and physics-informed AI to help your users stay on track as terrain, surroundings, and GPS availability change.
Move naturally.
Support the way people carry their devices: handheld, moving with a swinging arm, chest-mounted, or waist-worn. Rahbar is designed to adapt to these changing poses and carrying modes.
PEDESTRIAN MOTIONMake it your own.
Bring Rahbar’s positioning intelligence into your app while keeping your maps, interface, and user experience. Its hardware-agnostic approach supports integration across smartphones and wearable devices.
YOUR APP, YOUR EXPERIENCE02 / UNDER THE HOOD
Small sensors.
A bigger picture.
Rahbar combines GPS with measurements from accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and barometric pressure sensors. Inertial navigation, sensor fusion, and physics-informed AI work together to support continuous positioning as GPS conditions change.
Designed to work with low-cost MEMS sensors found in smartphones and wearables, Rahbar provides a software-defined approach to positioning without relying on a single hardware platform.
Talk through your integrationFROM SENSOR INPUTS TO APP EXPERIENCE
AccelerometerGyroscopeMagnetometerBarometerGPS
Rahbar SDKSensor fusion + motion intelligence
COREYour outdoor appYour maps. Your experience.
Conceptual architecture. Discuss platform and sensor requirements with our team.
03 / INTEGRATION
From framework to
fused position.
Add Rahbar to a Swift app without building a sensor-processing pipeline of your own. The framework collects and fuses motion, barometer, and GPS inputs internally; your app consumes processed navigation results.
iOS 17+Swift appPhysical iPhone for field testing
Add one XCFramework
Add RahbarSDK.xcframework to the application target, choose Embed & Sign, then import RahbarSDK. The compiled Core ML model and native fusion components are already included.
Configure permissions
Add location and motion usage descriptions. Enable background location updates only if your product needs tracking while the app is in the background.
Start navigation
Keep one RahbarNavigation instance for the navigation experience, request authorization from a user-driven action, subscribe to updates, and start the SDK.
Use fused results
Update your map and product experience with position, altitude, uncertainty, speed, course, calibration, lifecycle, and quality information. Rahbar retains responsibility for raw sensor processing.
SWIFT / MINIMAL STARTRahbarSDK
import RahbarSDK
let navigation = try RahbarNavigation(
configuration: .default
)
_ = navigation.requestAuthorization()
Task {
for await update in navigation.updates {
if let position = update.position {
// Update your map or navigation UI.
}
}
}
try navigation.start()Test movement on a real device.
The Simulator is useful for API integration and unit tests, but it cannot reproduce real motion, barometer, and GPS behavior.
04 / TAKE IT OUTSIDE
Start with a walk.
See where it leads.
RAHBAR SDK IN ACTION
Explore Rahbar’s positioning capabilities through our iOS evaluation app, from a trail on USGS Topo to an urban walk on Apple Maps.
Request an evaluation
See the trail in context.
Follow a recorded path alongside terrain contours and landmarks. The evaluation app also supports downloadable USGS Topo maps for offline use.
Stay on track beyond GPS.
The recorded path remains continuous as the user moves from the street through a building complex—an environment where GPS-only positioning commonly degrades or drops out.
Find your next waypoint.
See distance and direction cues to a selected waypoint as you move, alongside positioning and altitude estimates.
Screenshots from the Rahbar iOS evaluation app. SDK scope and integration requirements are discussed separately.
LET’S BUILD WHAT’S NEXT.