Aeryon Fleet Management Goes Live
Today, Aeryon Labs, Booth #2313, is debuting a new solution that provides scalable fleet management as well as video and telemetry capabilities, at Xponential. This product enables live video from a single or multiple SkyRanger unmanned aircraft to stream to a group of users in near real time. It also enables companies to manage their UAS fleets to improve productivity and ensure compliance through consistent reporting.
Called AeryonLive, the product can disseminate the video feed from its integrated payloads – either electro-optical/infrared or high-definition zoom — to a Web-based platform that can be simultaneously viewed by up to 10 people per UAS feed, regardless of geographic location.
Along with capturing visual information, which could be used for search-and-rescue, public safety or commercial applications, AeryonLive provides the automatic upload of flight log information. Flight time and location per aircraft, flights per pilot, aircraft by exemption numbers and N numbers, and the health of the parts of a SkyRanger UAV are all reported back through the Web portal.
“As you add more UAVs to your fleet, reporting on each aircraft every month and managing the airworthiness of that equipment can be time consuming,” says Charlie Elliott, senior product manager at Aeryon.
Elliott says some Aeryon customers were seeing their drone pilots and/or fleet manager spend between four and eight hours of their week just reporting on their flights to stay compliant, meaning they either had to work on the weekends or cut into their flying time.
“After every flight, the logs are just uploaded automatically. You don’t have to have someone manually go and write them in a book or type them in Excel,” he says.
The video and telemetry offering also has built-in authorizations, so different users can have access to different parts of a video stream. The feeds can be viewed on many devices, so a firefighter could see on a phone what a commander can see on a laptop.
For the live stream, which takes five seconds to go from capture to viewer, Aeryon partnered with broadcast company Dejero Labs, which provides live broadcast capability to major news outlets like ABC and NBC. It transmits the feed over a bonded cellular connection, working over multiple wireless service providers’ bands to keep latency low.
