Aerobridge is management server to help you with your drone flights and operations. With Aerobridge your GCS, Drones and Pilots interface with your company's digital infrastructure in a standardized fashion and be in compliance with the regulatory requirements around operating drones.
If you are a drone manufacturer, operator or just a researcher, you can benefit by adopting Aerobridge in your operational stack:
- Store and approve missions
- Prevent unauthorized use
- Manage Personnel and Drone fleet
- Integration with Ardupilot
- Give flight permissions
We work with drone manufacturers and operators to enable them to become compliant by regular onboarding run through our canary program. You can find out more about this on our regular webinar.
Aerobridge is fully open source and you can get involved by participating in our weekly calls and our Slack channel: Request access here. Whether you are a drone enthusiast or an expert, join our community to shape the future of drone flights. There are many benefits of participation:
- You can shape the future of this software
- Join the community of fellow professionals interested in an open flexible drone eco-system in India
- Contribute to the development of open infrastructure to support your flight operations
- Reduce the time and cost of compliance
This is an open source implementation of the "Manufacturer's Management Server" to help with key signing and managing interactions with external APIs. This server can be deployed to any public and private cloud and be used to manage communication.
Aerobridge is a Django server and is python based. To setup a local instance with a SQLLite database follow the following steps:
- Clone the repository
- Install dependencies, we recommend creating a virtual environment via a tool like Anaconda
- Install Aerobridge specific dependencies via
pip install -r requirements.txt - Copy the
.env.samplefile and create a.envfile, you need to put in a strong password for the Django secret
Now you can use the Docker or non-Docker methods to run the installation, if you just want to test it we recommend you use Docker, use non-Docker setup for debugging / contributing.
- Create a Docker Container via the following command
./build_aerobridge_docker.sh - Then run the containers using
docker-compose up - Finally login to the container and run the
aerobridge_entrypoint.shto populate with initial data.
- Migrate the database
python manage.py migrate, this will create a SQLlite database calledaerobridge.sqlite3 - Load sample data
python manage.py loadddata registry/defaultregistrydata.json - Launch server via
python manange.py runserver
sudo apt install sqlite3 # SQLite3 Database
sudo apt install python3-pygraphviz # Graphviz for automatically generating database ER diagram
- Run the server locally
DJANGO_SECRET=<YOUR_DJANGO_SECRET_KEY> python manage.py runserver - Create database ER diagram
DJANGO_SECRET=<YOUR_DJANGO_SECRET_KEY> python manage.py graph_models -a -g -o test.png - Run automated tests
DJANGO_SECRET=<YOUR_DJANGO_SECRET_KEY> python manage.py test
Aerobridge provides the following toolset:
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Management Server
- Flight log management: Store Bundled Logs on the server
- Public Key Rotation and storage: Submission of flight plans and fetching permission artefacts
- Approve Missions: Digitally sign mission approvals and verify on GCS and RFM side.
- Maintain equipment and personnel: Manage drone parts and people operating them in the company.
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GCS Module
- QGCS Aerobridge Guardian Integration with GCS / RFM
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RFM Module
- A customized Flight Controller Firmware and Bootloader: (Guardian RFM)
- This repository uses the drone registry schema from Aircraft Registry project.
- You can see the frontend using the Testflight frontend
- Take a look at the backend API: Aerobridge OpenAPI renderer
Aerobridge is licensed under a BSL license popularized by other products such as CockroachDB and Sentry. Basically, it means the following:
- You cannot offer a version of Aerobridge as a service to third parties, if you want to do this, you will need an agreement with Openskies (the license grant restriction)
- After 24 months, the code becomes Apache-2.0 licensed (the conversion period)
In other words, if you want to host / run Aerobridge inside your company for your own operations, you are free to do so without any concerns or restrictions. If you want to offer services to third parties using a release of Aerobridge the opensource project that is less than two years old, you will need an agreement from Openskies.