DreamHammer Announces First Commercially Available Software that can control any Drone or Robot
SANTA MONICA, Calif – DreamHammer announced the beta launch of its drone control software. Called Ballista®, the software is an intelligent control platform that for the first time integrates unrelated unmanned drones and robots from different manufacturers into one system. Ballista is poised to become the industry standard for drone and robot control software for the multi-billion dollar global unmanned systems industry.
“Ballista® is designed to the highest military and safety critical standards but goes beyond military applications to work with all unmanned drones and robots. It is commercial off-the-shelf software, when applied to different industries — for example,transportation, logistics, agriculture, law enforcement, etc. — can be used to link multiple drones into one master system, all controlled by one person,” said Nelson Paez, CEO of DreamHammer. “A drone could be as simple as a farm tractor or as complicated as an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle or a satellite. It can be anything with a computer interface that is leveraging intelligence, technology and diversified control.
”DreamHammer, which had revenues of $6 million in 2012, has been licensing thesoftware and providing support to defense, intelligence, and homeland securitycustomers as well as their industrial base of manufacturers and integrators inadvance of the general release.
Managing multiple drones is a unique challenge, due to the fact that each drone type has proprietary control systems.
“In the past, anyone wanting a unified system had to develop the actual drone hardware. Ballista® allows government or commercial customers to link together machines from numerous developers performing a variety of tasks,” Paez said.
He emphasized the efficiency of Ballista®, stating: “Some unmanned systems take asmany as 200 people to manage a single drone, much more resources than manned vehicles. Ballista® allows a single user to manage multiple drones simultaneously.”
“The key to the future of drones and robots will be their ability to work together,” Paez said. “Until now, there has been no way to tie them together. Because Ballista® is so intelligent and easy to integrate and operate, a user who previously requiredextensive training to manage one drone or robot can now manage multiple drones orrobots simultaneously – all to achieve a single task or coordinated mission.
”Ballista® is built on an open, versatile and all-encompassing software platform which allows for autonomous and simultaneous control of multiple unmanned vehicles across all domains – space, air, sea and land — and can be run from nearly any computer including a tablet or a phone. Ballista® includes an easy to use, robustsoftware development kit (SDK) that can be licensed by developers to integrate their drones, robots and third party apps.
Pricing depends on the end use.
