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Their core work

NNG is a Budapest-based navigation and mapping software company best known for its iGO navigation platform, which is embedded in automotive infotainment systems across dozens of vehicle brands worldwide. Their core competence is automotive-grade software for positioning, map rendering, and route guidance — a foundation they have extended into satellite-based road infrastructure sensing and autonomous vehicle systems. In H2020 projects, NNG contributed navigation intelligence to EGNSS-enabled smart road maintenance and to large-scale connected automated driving pilots across European road networks. They bring the rare combination of production-ready embedded navigation software and deep expertise in GNSS signal processing for safety-critical automotive environments.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

NNG's early H2020 work (2020) focused on infrastructure-side applications — using EGNSS and mobile mapping to detect road damage and reduce maintenance costs, with the vehicle as a sensing platform rather than an autonomous actor. By 2021 their focus shifted to the vehicle itself: connected automated driving, higher levels of automation, and the cross-border piloting needed to validate deployment at scale. The trajectory is clear: from road as subject (sensing infrastructure) to road as context (enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate it). This mirrors the broader automotive industry shift from ADAS to Level 3+ automation, and positions NNG as a software contributor to that transition rather than a passive observer.

NNG is moving from infrastructure monitoring toward autonomous vehicle software — a logical evolution for a navigation company, and a signal that future collaborations will likely center on HD maps, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, and GNSS integrity for automated driving.

How they like to work

NNG participates exclusively as a consortium partner rather than a project coordinator, which is consistent with a commercial software company contributing a specific technology component rather than managing research agendas. Both projects are large Innovation Actions with wide consortia — ESRIUM and Hi-Drive each involve dozens of partners — suggesting NNG is comfortable operating inside complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Their 62 unique partners across 16 countries in just two projects indicates they join well-networked flagship initiatives, which is typical for industrial software providers seeking real-world validation of their platforms.

NNG has reached 62 unique consortium partners across 16 countries through only two projects, reflecting the scale of the flagship Innovation Actions they joined. Their network spans automotive OEMs, road authorities, research institutes, and technology providers across Central and Western Europe.

What sets them apart

NNG occupies an unusual niche: a commercially deployed navigation software vendor with production contracts across the automotive industry that also participates in cutting-edge EU-funded automation research. Unlike most research-oriented partners in connected driving consortia, NNG brings software already running in millions of production vehicles — which means their contributions are closer to deployment-ready than most. For a consortium building an automated driving project, NNG offers both technical depth in GNSS-based positioning and a credible commercialization pathway for project outputs.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ESRIUM
  The largest of NNG's two funded projects (EUR 450,275), it combined satellite navigation with mobile road-sensing in a rare intersection of space infrastructure, transport, and environmental efficiency.
• Hi-Drive
  A flagship automated driving project running to 2025 with large-scale cross-border pilots — NNG's most forward-looking project and the clearest signal of their strategic direction toward autonomous vehicle software.