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DroneOS - Realtime UAV tracking via the web

Posted by Anders Brownworth on March 12, 2011 at 10:52pm

We're a small startup working on a project for tracking and sharing the location of UAVs and drones in real time via the web. Flights are tracked by attaching a smartphone to a drone and distributing a URL which lets your friends follow your flights in realtime on a map in a web browser.

We've been focused on building and solidifying a backend system and API to support our iPhone application. (an Android app is in the works) We're interested in feedback from the community on what we got right / wrong and where we should take the project.

Take a look at http://droneos.com and sign up for the beta if you are interested in trying it out. We are at SXSW this week if you are interested in meeting up or DM us at @droneos via Twitter.

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Anders Brownworth June 25, 2012 at 8:23am

Post here or tweet us...

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Dani Agami June 25, 2012 at 8:04am

Hi Anders, thanks!

Did you happen to notice the message I sent you to the droneos facebook account? If that is not a convenient place for communication I'll place the message here.
Anders Brownworth June 24, 2012 at 10:11am

Yep, we are still working on this. The backend has been completely re-written since the initial beta and we have been working on an Android / HTML5 version of the smartphone app. We have QGroundControl integration through our backend as well. Lots of people have signed up but few are in a position to actually test. If you are interested, sign up and feel free to shoot me a note - anders at drones.com.

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Dani Agami June 23, 2012 at 9:51am

Guys, you still there? last entry here is March 11.
Anders Brownworth March 14, 2011 at 11:38am

Not that far - we have working code but we need to update some authentication pieces. We are also working on an HTML5 version which should run in any smartphone with a webkit browser.
bergsprekken March 14, 2011 at 4:15am

Do you get the height above ground from the gps data?

Ive been flying with my android phone strapped to my quad, works fine. Is the android app far into the future?
lot March 14, 2011 at 3:56am

wow!

Amazing!!
Anders Brownworth March 13, 2011 at 5:44pm

If you already have GPS and a way to the net, our API is the way to go. The iPhone idea might be better targeted to the ARdrone types without GPS. We're taking with some of the ground station folks about integrations. Thanks for the feedback.
Doug Carter March 13, 2011 at 5:36pm

I'll be d@mned before I would strap my phone to a drone of any kind. But if you are strapping your phone to a drone why not just code the software on the phone to use the phone GPS to tell the position instead of trying to integrate with the APM? Just thinking out loud.
Russkel March 13, 2011 at 5:29pm

Good enough reason for me.