Hex offers an automated drone‑in‑a‑box system that equips compatible UAVs with robotic battery swapping, precision landing, and a RESTful API, enabling fully autonomous BVLOS missions without on‑site pilots. The cloud platform provides scheduled flight planning, regulatory filing, and high‑speed encrypted data offload for enterprises in utilities, infrastructure inspection, public‑safety, and large‑scale mapping.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Enterprises that require high‑frequency aerial data—such as infrastructure inspection, utilities monitoring, or public‑safety surveillance—are limited by manual drone operations, short battery endurance, and the need for on‑site pilots, which makes continuous BVLOS missions costly and logistically complex.
Solution
Hex delivers a fully automated drone‑in‑a‑box (DIAB) system that turns any compatible UAV into a self‑servicing data acquisition node. The hardware dock autonomously handles precision landing, battery removal, and robotic swapping, returning the aircraft to flight in as little as 2.5 minutes without human intervention. Hexair software abstracts the docked drone as a RESTful API, enabling scheduled BVLOS missions, real‑time telemetry, and high‑throughput data offload to a cloud analytics platform. Operators schedule flights through a web console, while the platform manages flight‑path planning, regulatory compliance, and secure storage of collected imagery or sensor data. The solution scales across fleets, providing a frictionless aerial data network that behaves like an “invisible” sensor layer.
Target Audience
Primary customers are enterprise operators in utilities, infrastructure inspection, public‑safety agencies, and large‑scale mapping firms that need reliable, high‑frequency aerial data without dedicated pilot crews.
Features
- Drone‑agnostic docking station with interchangeable battery modules and payload bays, supporting models such as DJI M350, Mavic 3, Anzu Robotics, and Parrot Anafi
- Proprietary autonomous landing algorithm that reduces pilot error and ensures sub‑centimeter touchdown accuracy
- Robotic battery‑swap mechanism delivering a full turnaround time of ≤ 2.5 minutes, maximizing airborne utilization
- High‑speed, encrypted data offload (up to 1 Gbps) directly to Hex’s cloud service for immediate processing and archiving
- Hexair API that exposes flight control, mission scheduling, and sensor streams, enabling integration with enterprise GIS, asset‑management, or custom analytics pipelines
- Cloud‑based mission planner with BVLOS route optimization, geofencing, and automated regulatory filing support
- Remote monitoring dashboard with live telemetry, health diagnostics, and OTA firmware updates for fleet management
- Scalable payload options (e.g., Zenmuse S1, H20N, dual‑camera rigs) selectable per mission through a modular interface