Drone relay, as a service

Live drone video to command staff, over the network they already have.

Hover relays MAVLink and H.264 video from field drones to operator command centers and public viewers, across LTE, Starlink, and CGNAT, with retransmit, recording, and observability built in. Multi-OEM. Hours to launch.

End-to-end latency
sub-secondon terrestrial paths
Uplink
LTE · Starlink · CGNAT
OEM lock-in
none
In production with Altametry
SmartBalloon aerial systems · live customer deployment since 2025 Live
01/Problem

Drone footage doesn't reach the people who need it.

Field drones produce video and telemetry that command staff, partner agencies, and incident commanders need in real time. Most teams don't get it. The drone vendor's app shows the pilot only. Banded routers and direct streams break under cellular reality. Roll-your-own setups take months and one network change to fall over.

Public-safety buyers want to see the feed across a command post, share it with a partner agency, and record it for review, without hardware lock-in to a single vendor and without rebuilding their network for every deployment.

02/Solution

A managed relay between the drone and the room.

A small proxy on the field laptop, a relay in the cloud, an operator client on the command-post PC. The drone keeps doing what it does. The room sees what the drone sees. Hover carries the bytes in between, with the resilience cellular paths require.

Field site Hover relay Command post
Drone RTSP · MAVLink
Cloud relay retransmit · recording
Command post Operator client · public viewer
03/Platform

What's included in the platform.

Live video relay

H.264 video from the drone's RTSP source to the operator's local viewer. Sub-second on terrestrial paths.

MAVLink command channel

Full bidirectional autopilot link. Mission Planner, QGroundControl, your tool of choice.

NACK retransmit

Sequence-aware loss recovery on both legs of the path, paced so retransmits don't saturate the uplink.

Reorder tolerance

A 75-ms hold window keeps the cellular reorder pattern from being mis-classified as loss.

Public viewer

A browser URL the incident commander can hand to a partner agency. PIN-gated, branded delivery.

Recording

Field-side H.264 capture to a labeled SD card. Swap the card, hand it to evidence.

Web admin & observability

Live logs and a real-time loss chart in both the operator client and the field proxy. No SSH.

Multi-OEM

Anything that speaks RTSP and MAVLink. No hardware lock-in to a single drone vendor.

04/Who it's for

Built for the way public-safety teams actually fly.

Primary

Drone-as-First-Responder

1,500+ US law-enforcement agencies fly drones. ~600 have FAA-approved DFR programs. Every one of them needs the video on more than one screen.

Primary

Public-safety command staff

Incident commanders, dispatch, mutual-aid partners. Anyone who needs the feed to make the next call.

Secondary

BVLOS & inspection

With Part 108 on deck, BVLOS operators need a relay that survives the long-range cellular path. Hover already does.

05/Pricing

Pick the tier that fits your team.

Pilot
Free
1 deployment · 1 tenant · 1 team · 5 operators
  • Real work, free forever
  • 7-day cloud recordings
  • Public viewer link
  • Community support
Start a pilot
Operator
$149 / mo
5 deployments · 1 tenant · 3 teams · 25 operators
  • Multi-team, up to 25 operators
  • 30-day cloud recording retention
  • 1-year flight history
  • Email support
Choose Operator
Enterprise
$25k / yr · sales-led
Unlimited · everything
  • Custom contract · unlimited everything
  • CJIS · SOC 2 · FedRAMP
  • Custom retention & integrations
  • Procurement-ready · named on-call
Talk to sales
06/Roadmap

What we're building next.

A short list of work in flight. No dates — we ship when each one's ready.

Live annotations

Drop a timestamped note on the live feed during ops. Pins to the recording timeline; surfaces in flight review for the whole team.

Detections

Prompt-driven object detection. Write what to watch for in plain English; get alerts when the feed matches — person with a backpack, white pickup, unattended bag.

Cloud recording

Field-side SD recording is the floor. Cloud recording adds a copy to Hover's storage, with retention tiers, share URLs, and PIN-gated audience playback.

API

Scoped keys, audit trail, webhooks. Plug Hover into your dispatch console, SIEM, or any tooling that already runs your team's day.

Ship a drone feed to your command post
in hours, not weeks.

Send us your deployment shape and we'll come back with a pilot plan.

hello@hoverfeed.com