Situational Summary
- Precision Hawk would like to be set up with partners in 60 to 90 days.
- They would like a partner to think outside the box and be able to challenge the orthodox way of doing things in order to help improve the product suite.
- The current codebase is based on coding standards from DJI - a Shenzhen, China-based Unmanned Aircraft System (drone) manufacturer.
- The intention is to move off proprietary DJI code components to a non-DJI, agnostic set of code standards for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. This will address concerns about the ability to configure the firmware and software settings such as issues highlighted by government assessments of DJI software and where it was determined that it was not possible to prevent to decline and lockout any device information sharing including telemetry through aircraft, software or applications preventing any automated uploads or downloads.
- An example of such issues is highlighted in this US Department of the Interior report on DJI's non-compliance with DOI requirements.
- The current tech stack is Java backend and React frontend, with Android applications for tablet use.
- AWS hosting, but should be able to be hosted in an Azure environment if needed.
Projects for Partner Consideration:
Precision Flight Application:
- Rewrite to be vendor agnostic. 6 months - 1-year effort.
- 5 developers
- 2 testers
- 1 QA
- 1 architect
Flight Automation Software:
- Rewrite to be vendor agnostic. Documentation will need to be compiled (currently missing documentation)
Precision Mapper rewrite.
- The application is used to plan repeatable flights for inspections.
- Precision Mapper synchronizes back to the decision analytics suite of tools.
- These applications are tablet-based (Android) and Windows-based for laptop use.
- 3 months effort
- 4 developers
- 2 testers
- 1 QA
- 1 architect
Multi-Spectral Camera Analysis:
- Using Vegetation Index algorithms to determine the health of plants in order to highlight at-risk plants such as trees that could fall or encroach on vital infrastructure and cause power outages, road closures, and other disruptive events.
- The partner should have some experience in photogrammetry and computer-based vision.
- 1 year - 18 months duration
- 6-8 developers
- 3 testers
- BA
- Data scientist
- Architect
Lidar Technology:
- Produce 3D images and measurements of infrastructure, and also measure vegetation encroachment on infrastructure. Identification of changes that could impact the performance and serviceability of infrastructure is a key use case.
- The partner should have some experience in photogrammetry and computer-based vision, as well as matching algorithms.
- 1 year - 18 months duration
- 6-8 developers
- 3 testers
- BA
- Data scientist
- Architect
Drone Project A:
Enables on-demand aerial imagery by connecting businesses to commercially licensed pilots. The platform matches drone pilots to aerial image customers. The current platform was built as a B2C offering and the intention is to build out a more feature-rich platform for B2B users. The functionality will include job posting, procure-to-pay processes, including issuing 1099's to drone pilots and including CRM functionality to manage customers and drone pilots. ERP components would be a good starting point for basic processes.
- 6-8 developers
- 3 testers
- BA
- Data scientist
- Architect
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