PRECISE INDOOR POSITIONING AND TRACKING FOR DRONES
Dragonfly, our Visual SLAM (vSLAM) technology, lets you get real-time 3D location of a flying drone, using just the on-board camera.
Indoor Tracking and Positioning for drones is a challenging task, where GPS / GNSS cannot be used.
When operating indoors and in GPS-denied environments, alternative systems must be considered.
Dragonfly can leverage the on-board hardware and work entirely offline. It can work inside known and unknown environments and does not require the deployment of specific hardware.
DISCOVER
How does Dragonfly work with Drones?
Dragonfly is a Visual SLAM technology that provides very precise location. Dragonfly calculates the location using our patented technology, using just the on-board camera. No sensor fusion, no MEMS, no hardware to be deployed on site, no QR codes. Dragonfly needs to get a 640×480 px video stream from the drone. The camera can be monocular (ideally wide angle) or stereo and it can point towards any direction. The existing camera of the drone can be used, as long as the video stream can be consumed by the Dragonfly software.
API, ROS, Dashboard
- Dragonfly allows to monitor the real time location of the drones from the Onit dashboard.
- The API can be used to integrate the location data into external applications.
- ROS Nodes can be developed by Onit’s team to ease the integration with ROS.
Are you ready to get started?
FEATURES
Real-time 3D position (6 DOF).
Accuracy higher than 5 cm.
Venue and place recognition and re-location.
Map shared among different devices.
Offline version available, no internet connection required.
WHY DRAGONFLY CAN BE THE SOLUTION TO YOUR LOCATION PROBLEMS?
Dragonfly is an exceptionally flexible technology for precise positioning.
Alternative to Lidar and UWB
For accurate indoor positioning and location.
No Hardware Infrastructure
No receivers, no antennas, no "nodes". Nothing has to be deployed through the venue.
3D Location in real time
Dragonfly elaborates the location in real time, no latency. X, Y, Z location + attitude (yaw, pitch, roll).
Just one on-board camera required
Dragonfly does not need specific hardware, IMU, no sensor fusion, LiDAR, magnetic stripes, QR codes... The existing on-board camera can be leveraged.
On the Cloudor Offline
Dragonfly can run on board the drone, or on a server, completely offline. No internet connection needed.
It scales with you
Dragonfly is a scalable technology: there are no minimum or maximum number of drones that can use the technology at the same time.
API for Custom Integration
RESTful API provided to integrate the location data into external application, navigation systems, remote tracking software and more.
Map Shared among the Drones
Drones can share the same map and collaboratively work on it. The Drones update the map while moving throughout the venue.
5 cm Accuracy
Dragonfly's accuracy is about 5-10 cm in almost every environment. This can be achieved by simply following our easy steps to get started.
ARCHITECTURES
Dragonfly can work on a local on-premise server or directly on board of the device. Let us help you pick the best option.
Local Server
Easy to setup.
Computation on an on-premise server.
Local WLAN connection required.
On Board Processing
Computation on board the device.
No Internet or local connection needed.