Drone software development

When Rubyroid Labs team started to work on the project, we had some communication issues because of the time difference. However, within a short time the development teams got used to each other and found the perfect solution for business hours and working together.

In collaboration with the Drone Base development team and under the management of their CTO, our developers were provided with a number of features in the product pipeline and started the drone control application development.

Orthomosaic Stitching

We work with the system that passes images from drone pilots to the customers. In addition, we offer post-processing of that images - we glue them into a panorama, or compose them into an orthomosaic image. Orthomosaic image means making a picture that can be superimposed on the map.

Client Analytics Page

We developed the customer personal page, where they can see their orders analytics: the total number of orders, mission completion time, statistics on the service packages used, etc. To implement this functionality, we used ElasticSearch to build sample and aggregating functions. On the front-end part, we used the highchart.io library.

Organization Structure

Initially, each customer could create orders and work only within the personal instance. Our team added the structure of organizations and corporate instances. Now, customers who are in one organization get access to custom packages, and an owner of the organization has access to the orders of all customers in this organization, sees statistics and information of all employees.

Direct Admin Support

In case one of our customers gets any questions or problems regarding the work process in the system, it’s possible to create a temporary private session (10 mins) with the administrator from the Drone Base. Admins are logging in via the current user (using the authentication and security token), and able to see the problem first hand. This helps provide support in a much more effective way.

ESRI Integration

We created an integration of Drone Base with ESRI company (ArcGIS system). Now users can see the new “Integrations” menu on the dashboard, where they can move over the native ArcGIS’s 2-factor authentication. We create the independent layer on customer’s map, which shows the photos for the particular orders. As a result, a user receives an email with a direct link to the updated layers.

Style Guide

The company did not have a common style guide, so we sometimes had to re-create front-end elements in order to match them with the updated design. In collaboration with our in-house UI/UX designer, we created a style guide that included all common elements of the website and recommendations on how to use them. Using this document, we have brought drone app development processes in a single style and cleaned up the project from legacy artifacts.