Will your drone make it back?

Power lines, gusts, low clouds, hawks and crowds, in one risk score.

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The problem

The biggest risks are invisible from the ground.

Gusts at 120 ft Cloud base too low Hawk nearby Migrating flock Power line, 40 m People below

40 m from a power line, 2.5 km from RPI. Thin wires are nearly invisible on a phone screen. See that check

How it works

Ten hazards, checked together, one risk score.

  1. 01Pick a spot and a date
  2. 02Ten hazards checked
  3. 03One risk score, 0 to 100

Weather from Open-Meteo, power lines and buildings from OpenStreetMap, hawk and bird activity from eBird and iNaturalist, with the FAA Part 107 visibility and cloud limits built in.

Live right now

Right now at RPI, Troy: checking

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The device

A small box clipped to the controller.

HIGH RISK RISK 98 KnowFlyZone

It shows the same score as the app on its screen, with a red light for high risk and green for low, and updates every few seconds.

Built with

MongoDB Atlas · Tiger Data · Google Gemini · Fish Audio · Vultr · NVIDIA Jetson

Team

Udaya · Ryan · Shravan · Dhruv