Case study · Drone Safety · AWS

Real-time flight risk mapping for safer drone operations.

How Tenplus built a serverless AWS platform that gives drone operators real-time air and ground risk scoring before and during every flight.

AWS GlueAmazon S3AWS LambdaAmazon SageMakerAmazon SNSAPI GatewayCloudWatch
Drone safety · AWS serverless
Air and ground hazards, scored in real time.
Real timeRisk scoring
ServerlessAWS architecture
1Central data lake
Client background

Overheadintel: advanced insight for drone flight planning.

Overheadintel is a technology company focused on advanced insights for drone flight planning. Their goal is to help operators understand local hazards such as people, buildings, air activity and environmental conditions, before and during flight. They needed a robust cloud system that could collect, clean and process flight data in real time.

At a glance
  • Drone photography, inspection and surveying firms
  • Delivery technology and public-safety teams
  • Enterprise drone operations teams
The problem

No reliable way to see risk in real time.

Flight decisions were being made with incomplete information, which increased safety and compliance risk.

Limited visibility of the real risk around a planned flight path.
Slow or manual risk calculations.
No automated way to combine air risk and ground risk.
No system to flag hazards such as population density, restricted zones or building height.
No easy way to generate pre-flight or in-flight alerts.
No cloud pipeline to process large datasets quickly.
What they needed
  • Automated data ingestion
  • Cloud pipelines that scale
  • Real-time risk scoring
  • A dynamic map view of hazards
  • A reliable back end for different drone use cases
Solution overview

A fully serverless AWS architecture.

Tenplus designed a solution that is fast, scalable and cost-efficient, built entirely on managed AWS services.

A

AWS Glue

for data cleaning and ETL.

B

Amazon S3

as the central data lake and storage.

C

AWS Lambda

for serverless, on-demand compute.

D

Amazon SageMaker

notebooks for the risk models.

E

Amazon SNS & email

for alerts and notifications.

F

IAM, CloudWatch & API Gateway

for security and monitoring.

Built with AWS GlueAmazon S3AWS LambdaAmazon SageMakerAmazon SNSAPI GatewayCloudWatch
How we built it

Five steps from raw data to a live risk map.

1

Step 1Data collection and storage using Amazon S3

2

Step 2Data cleaning and ETL with AWS Glue

3

Step 3Real-time compute with AWS Lambda

4

Step 4Risk modelling with SageMaker

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Step 5Real-time risk map generation and automated alerts

Results

A complete real-time risk assessment system.

  • A fully automated, cloud-based flight risk engine.
  • Real-time risk scoring for any drone flight path.
  • A central data lake powered by S3.
  • Scalable ETL with AWS Glue and fast compute with Lambda.
  • Strong AI risk modelling with SageMaker.
  • A clear, visual map for flight planning, with higher safety and better compliance.
★★★★★
Working with Tenplus helped us turn a complex idea into a real, working product. Their team built a fast and scalable system on AWS that gives our users the risk insights they need. The end result is strong, accurate and ready for growth.
Head of Engineering · Overheadintel
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