Full-stack
air intelligence.
Vortex designs and integrates every layer of the autonomous stack — airframe, flight control, onboard AI, and cloud GCS. No black boxes. No foreign firmware. Complete system sovereignty.
Built from the
ground up.
Each layer of the Vortex stack is developed in-house. This means faster iteration, defensible IP, full customisation for mission profiles, and zero dependency on foreign-controlled systems.
Indigenous mechanical design — T700 CF structures, motor-arm geometry, payload integration, and thermal management for high-altitude and hot-humid environments.
- T700 Carbon Fibre composite structures
- Hex / Octo / Fixed-wing architectures
- Fold-arm rapid deploy design
- Custom motor mounts (PA12-CF printed)
- Altitude-tuned prop geometry
All 6 platforms in active prototype stage. Frame design optimised for 3,500m+ density altitude.
ArduPilot / PX4-based open-source flight control, hardened and customised. Cube Orange Plus with redundant IMUs. SIYI MK15 + HM30 telemetry integration.
- Cube Orange Plus autopilot
- ArduCopter / ArduPlane custom builds
- SIYI MK15 RC + HM30 video link
- S.Bus pass-through integration
- MAVLink telemetry routing
Successfully validated across Atlas, Ranger and Sentinel platforms. RC + telemetry fully integrated.
Edge inference for real-time target detection, classification, tracking, and terrain-relative navigation. Runs on-drone without cloud connectivity — critical for GPS-denied and comms-jammed environments.
- YOLOv8 / RT-DETR object detection
- Multi-target tracking (ByteTrack)
- Terrain-relative nav (optical flow)
- Edge inference (Jetson Orin / Nano)
- GPT-4o Vision integration (analysis)
Computer vision pipeline operational. Edge inference deployment underway on Sentinel and Ranger.
Vortex Cloud GCS — India's answer to DJI Flight Hub. Hardware-agnostic fleet management with NPNT compliance, autonomous mission planning, and real-time AI analytics. Indian data residency.
- FastAPI backend (Python)
- Real-time telemetry dashboard
- Mission planner + waypoint editor
- Multi-fleet coordination
- Digital Sky / NPNT compliant
MVP architecture defined. Backend in development. Target: SaaS launch alongside Ranger TC.
Native swarm protocol built into the Vortex command stack — not a third-party overlay. Single-operator control of 10–15 drones with coordinated mission logic, formation flight, and distributed sensing.
- UWB-based relative positioning
- MAVLink multi-vehicle routing
- Collision avoidance mesh
- Scripted + live-adaptive modes
- 1-to-N operator ratio
Hornet swarm prototype active. Formation and coordination logic under live testing.
Vortex Cloud GCS
The Indian alternative to DJI Flight Hub — a hardware-agnostic drone fleet management platform built for Indian data residency, NPNT compliance, and enterprise-scale operations.
Real-time telemetry, live video feeds, and status monitoring for multi-fleet operations. All data stored on Indian servers.
Waypoint editor with terrain-following, area coverage, and NPNT-compliant mission approval. Supports all 6 platforms.
On-platform CV pipeline results pushed to dashboard — object count, detection events, thermal anomaly reports, survey outputs.
10–15 drone coordinated missions. Formation presets, scripted sequences, live override, and single-operator control ratio.
Full Digital Sky integration — automated pre-flight NPNT permission checks, permission artefact generation, and log archival.
REST API for third-party GIS tools, enterprise asset platforms, and OEM SDK for custom hardware integration.