Peripheral Management

A drone is a flying sensor network

Cameras, gimbals, modems, AI accelerators — each with its own configuration, its own health state and its own appetite for bandwidth and compute. Managing them individually does not scale past the first aircraft.

Plan map: a companion computer with five peripherals and the share of the link each one gets
The problem

Every device brought its own way of being configured

Ten devices, ten procedures

Each peripheral arrives with its own tooling, its own idea of what a log looks like, and no interest in the others. The aircraft integrator inherits all of it.
  • DiscoverFind what is actually attached to the vehicle rather than trusting the build sheet from six months ago.
  • ConfigureOne place to set devices up, so configuration is a property of the fleet rather than of whoever assembled that airframe.
  • MonitorPer-device health in the same holistic log as everything else, so a failing peripheral is visible before it becomes a failed mission.
Peripherals
CAMERAGIMBALMODEMAI ACCELERATORown toolown toolown toolown toolINTEGRATORinherits all of itSKYCLIENTBUILD SHEETsix months agoread from the vehicleinsteadONE PLACEdevice configurationa property of the fleet,not of who assembled itHOLISTIC LOGfailing · seen before the mission
Each peripheral arrives with its own tooling and its own idea of what a log looks like. The integrator inherits all of it.
Resources

Bandwidth and compute are shared, and finite

Stream budgeting

Decide which feeds get the link when they cannot all have it, instead of discovering the answer mid-mission.

Compute allocation

Onboard processing is as scarce as bandwidth once an AI accelerator is in the mix — allocate it deliberately.

Per-device diagnostics

Health and fault state for each peripheral, timestamped alongside everything else that was happening.

Device · Modules: everything the companion runs or has attached, with its state

Extension

Your device, not just ours

A supported-hardware list is a starting point, not a boundary.

Supported out of the box

A range of cameras, gimbals, modems and accelerators work without integration effort.

Custom peripherals

Adding your own device is a documented extension path rather than a special build maintained separately.

Managed by Skyclient

Peripheral management is part of the onboard client, so it shares the same log, the same diagnostics and the same automation.

The fly page of a surface vessel: sonar waterfall and swath beside the map

Bring us your hardware list

Tell us what your aircraft carry and we will tell you what works today and what integration involves.

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