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Now Airware, founded by MIT alumnus Jonathan Downey 6, has developed a platform hardware, software, and cloud services that lets manufacturers pick

and display that info to a user, says Downey, Airware CEO, who researched and built drones throughout his time at MIT.

Airware then pushes all data to the cloud, where it aggregated and analyzed, and available to designated users.

Clients have trialed Airware platform over the past year including researchers at MIT, who are demonstrating delivery of vaccines in Africa.

Airware plans to launch the platform for general adoption later this year, viewing companies that monitor crops

A company from scratch Airware roots date to 2005, when Downey, who studied electrical engineering and computer science, organized an MIT student team including Airware chief technology officer, Buddy Michini 7, SM 9,

Phd 3 to build drones for an intercollegiate competition. At the time, drones were used primarily for military surveillance,

Thus Airware was born in 2010 first run only by Downey, then with Michini and a team of Boeing engineers to make a military-grade lack boxsystem,

before Airware entered two California incubators, Lemnos Labs and Y-Combinator, in 2013. Since then, theye raised $40 million from investors and expanded their team from five to more than 50 employees. he last 18 months has been a rapid rise,

Not much of the early MIT drone designs made it into the final Airware platform. ut building that early drone at MIT

what Airware is today, Downey says. he DOS for dronestoday, Downey says, the development of a standard operating system for drones is analogous to Intel processors


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#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,

Airware is out to change that with today launch of its Aerial Information Platform. Commercial businesses can now license Airware Flight Core autopilot technology,

Ground Control Station for dispatching drones, and its cloud platform for customizing missions and collecting data.

the four year-old Airware is perhaps Silicon valley premier drone startup. Airware integrated hardware software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines,

survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.

Consumer drone makers are growing fast as quad-copters become the hot new toy for kids and adults alike.

Airware bussed investors, customers, and a handful of reporters from San francisco to an isolated farm in Petaluma, where the startup showed off its platform with a variety of drones built for different use cases.

Following a brief introduction by Airware CEO Jonathan Downey, CTO Buddy Michini demonstrated Airware core technologies:

which provides the brains to each drone that Airware powers, the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,

Airware can handle the whole process. The goal is to reduce the drone piloting expertise needed to get complicated missions flown.

Drone operators just set up the standard Airware control system enhance it with cloud widgets to customize their drone to the day use case,

and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within

After several similar demos, Drone America CEO Mike Richards spoke about using his company larger drones with Airware software for missions outside of traditional industrial uses.

During this time, Michini explained Airware plug-in system, which lets customers create widgets for the Ground Control Station in the C# programming language.

These widgets are actually the main reason Airware is sticking with Windows for its tablet app.

When it rolls out to select Airware partners this summer, this new system will let customers take advantage of more advanced sensor

Airware can roll out new products like App Core without having to find new companies to sell to or upsell its current customers.

Airware costs $2500 per drone per year. But the company doesn have to race to revenue just yet.

Now his company Airware is going to teach them to do our bidding, and even save some lives g


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