Numerous drone development activities show the clear interest in the market. However, we saw that most of the attempts fail to achieve an acceptable flight dynamic. Be it flight time or payload, it just didn't make sense to us to have a device that only flies below an hour and even less with the payload. On the other hand, the ones that achieve satisfying flight dynamics were ridiculously expensive. On top, for each application, you needed a separate drone. For example, one for aerial photography, one for package delivery, one for thermal inspection, and another one for air data collection etc.

So we have decided to make a customizable drone with Software Development Kit (SDK), and with modular hardware compartment. Something that people can directly connect 3rd party hardware and start writing applications with SDKs. This is how we came up with Smartplane as a Plug&Play customizable aircraft with 3rd party hardware and application platform. This enables you to create your own aerial projects and not to worry about the aeronautical and electronics aspects on a drone. Smartplane flies 80 minutes. It can carry your payload up to 300gr when it's simply plugged onto it on USB or Ethernet port.

Do you have an aerial project? Develop and fly it on Smartplane! Or just select an existing option from the hardware store:

Key features and Technology details:

Unique cutting-edge design: Provides 80minutes flight time (20 minutes more than the market average. Longest Flight times of any airplane under 1kg. Built-in hardware mount, detachable wings for easy transport Easy to fly: Manage your autopilot on your Android iOS tablet, phone or on your computer 

                        SMARTPLANE Ground Control Station

High payload to weight ratio: Smartplane weighs only 650gr and it can carry up to 300gr payload (~50% of its weight) Ready to fly: Quick to deploy, comes ready to fly right out of the box  Advanced software and hardware: State of the art flight controls, algorithms and connectivity, reliable autopilot based on ArduPilot (APM), easy to use ground control software. Powerful micro-computer runs on Linux, 
built-in 6-axis accelerometer, 3 axis gyroscope, barometric sensor (altitude), air-speed sensor, GNSS high performance positioning module, high speed onboard communication via Ethernet, micro-USB and CAN-port. High quality and performance components and guaranteesPlug&Play configurable hardware SDK for 3rd party developers: The SDK makes integration easy. We’re already hard at work on a robust Smartplane SDK that developers can use to integrate the Smartplane with their new and existing applications. Our team has built great SDKs before and we’re excited to do it again. All of the Smartplane dev kits include access to the Smartplane Developer Center, which provides the SDK, technical support, and serves as a community for Smartplane developers. The SDK will include clean well-documented code, samples, and tutorials to make integration with any application as easy as possible. We’re also working on out-of-the-box IOS, Android application code samples, so that anyone interested in working with the Smartplane, including indie developers, can get started right away! Safety first: Designed with multiple built-in safety features

We have concepted and developed the flying demonstrator. Our first model was used for the wind tunnel tests.

Following design updates, we have created our first flyable prototype. After tons of flight tests and trials, we have now reached the final flying prototype.