Program
MoonTower for Drones
- Status
- In production
- Program type
- Internal development
- Program context
- Deployed and running for customers today. Our own program, built because we judged it was needed.
The software and connected-device layer under drone operations: telemetry, fleet and device management, over-the-air updates, support and reporting.
An Ascendant program. Team experience, including work delivered through Guinn Partners and prior companies, is on the Our Work page.
Challenge
Why customers come to us for this
Many drone companies underestimate what it costs to build their own fleet management, telemetry, update, support and device infrastructure, in months as much as in money. It is a platform problem, and it is the same platform problem each time.
MoonTower AnalyticsWork performed
- Telemetry streaming and buffering
- Fleet and device management
- Over-the-air firmware and software updates
- Customer, user, device and license management
- Operational dashboards
- Support ticketing
- Anomaly and watchdog services
- Mission planning and logging
- Field-test data management
- Ascendant’s role
- Ours end to end: the platform, the integrations and the operations.
- Evidence, attribution and permissions
- The dashboard is shown running a customer fleet on our home page, with that customer's permission. Anything beyond that needs their agreement.
Outcome
What we are building toward
The aim is to offer MoonTower both on its own and built into our own aircraft, kits and radio systems, so a customer can take the layer without taking the hardware, or take both.
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Toward an NDAA-compliant radio link and controller
Reliable video, telemetry and control links to replace systems that depend on a foreign supply chain.