Platform - GCS
Mixed Reality Awareness
The NIDO.AI Ground Control Platform enables real-time management of NIDO® unit fleets on hardware-agnostic clients, utilizing a 3D geospatial Extended Reality (XR) interface.
NIDO GC seamlessly integrates Command & Control (C2&C3) functions with live video feeds and real-time digital datasets, providing enhanced situational awareness. By expanding Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) capabilities, it delivers instant, up-to-date insights on terrain and airspace conditions, optimizing operational decisions for every ongoing or planned mission.
Precision, Awareness and Control
At the core of the GCS interface lies a 3D geographic map that can integrate data from platforms like Google or custom datasets such as photogrammetric and LiDAR-based 3D meshes. This dynamic environment visualizes the digital twins of both the drone and the box in real time. To enhance the Pilot in Command’s situational awareness, the interface can overlay live informational layers, including nearby air traffic, UAV positions, and telecommunications signal coverage.
A four-frame display, providing simultaneous live views from up to four drones. This layout highlights the system’s powerful multi-drone management capability, allowing operators to monitor and control multiple missions in real time. With synchronized video feeds and telemetry, it ensures full situational awareness and operational efficiency across complex scenarios.
The pre-flight check page provides a comprehensive overview of automated system diagnostics and live telemetry from both the UAV and the NIDO Box, including real-time video feeds. This interface ensures that all components are fully operational before takeoff. Once all checks are successfully completed, the Pilot in Command can confidently initiate the mission.
A calendar view of missions and a detailed summary screen for each mission. Pilots in Command (PiC) can log in to access mission details, initiate pre-flight checks, and transition to the Command & Control interface.
The GCS planning interface allows pilots and operators to efficiently design waypoint missions with precision and ease. Through intuitive tools, users can define and measure operational areas, set flight parameters, and analyze mission data in real time. This comprehensive environment simplifies mission preparation while optimizing flight performance and safety.
Specifications
- Comprehensive live telemetry for every node i.e. UAV and Vertispot box (weather conditions, battery status, flight attitude, security perimeter).
- Low-latency live video streaming from UAV and Vertispot and other nodes.
- Pre-flight and post-flight safety checks.
- Mission planning (waypoint missions, corridor mapping, photogrammetric scans, waypoint actions, linear scans, Safety Box missions).
- Flight log management and analysis.
- 3D geofence creation and management.
- Remote multi-UAV management (RTH/FTS commands, gimbal control, mission abort, GoTo command, start/stop video/photo).
- Real-time airspace awareness (ADS-B live data – S&A).
- 3D geospatial dataset management (digital twins, real-time population density, etc.).
- Remote multi-Vertispot management (open/close, environmental camera control, telemetry monitoring, optional box perimeter security).
- Remote battery charging system management.
- Seamless transition between remote operator and local pilot.
- API for interoperability with systems (e.g., Genetec) and third-party software (e.g., Pix4D, Cesium).