Live video relay
H.264 video from the drone's RTSP source to the operator's local viewer. Sub-second on terrestrial paths.
Drone relay, as a service.
Live drone video to command staff,
over the network they already have.
Hover relays MAVLink and H.264 video from field drones to operator command centers and public viewers — across LTE, Starlink, and CGNAT — with retransmit, recording, and observability built in. Multi-OEM. Hours to launch.
- End-to-end latency
- sub-second on terrestrial paths
- Uplink
- LTE / Starlink / CGNAT
- OEM lock-in
- none
01 / Problem
Drone footage doesn't reach the people who need it.
Field drones produce video and telemetry that command staff, partner agencies, and incident commanders need in real time. Most teams don't get it. The drone vendor's app shows the pilot only. Bonded routers and direct streams break under cellular reality. Roll-your-own setups take months and one network change to fall over.
Public safety buyers want to see the feed across a command post, share it with a partner agency, and record it for review — without a hardware lock-in to a single drone vendor and without rebuilding their network for every deployment.
02 / Solution
A managed relay between the drone and the room.
Hover is the connective tissue. A small proxy on the field laptop, a relay we operate in the cloud, an operator client on the command-post PC. The drone keeps doing what it does. The room sees what the drone sees. We carry the bytes in between, with the resilience the cellular path requires.
Hover relay
downlink
Drone
Cloud
Command post
03 / Platform
What ships in the box.
MAVLink command channel
Full bidirectional autopilot link — Mission Planner, QGroundControl, your tool of choice.
NACK retransmit
Sequence-aware loss recovery on both legs of the path, paced so retransmits don't saturate the uplink.
Reorder tolerance
A 75 ms hold window keeps the cellular reorder pattern from being mis-classified as loss.
Public viewer
A browser URL the incident commander can hand to a partner agency. WHIP-based delivery.
Recording
Field-side H.264 capture to a labeled SD card. Swap the card, hand it to evidence.
Web admin & observability
Live logs and a real-time loss chart in both the operator client and the field proxy. No SSH.
Multi-OEM
Anything that speaks RTSP and MAVLink. No hardware lock-in to a single drone vendor.
04 / Who it's for
Built around the way public-safety teams actually fly.
Primary
Drone-as-First-Responder
1,500+ US law-enforcement agencies fly drones. ~600 have FAA-approved DFR programs. Every one of them needs the video on more than one screen.
Primary
Public-safety command staff
Incident commanders, dispatch, mutual-aid partners. Anyone who needs the feed to make the next call.
Secondary
BVLOS & inspection
With Part 108 on deck, BVLOS operators need a relay that survives the long-range cellular path. Hover already does.
05 / Pricing
Per drone. Honest.
Start free. Scale per drone. Talk to us when the org gets big.
Pilot
Free
- One drone
- One operator
- Public viewer link
- Community support
Operator
$79/drone/mo
- Live video and MAVLink
- NACK retransmit
- Field-side recording
- Email support
Most teams pick this
Pro
$199/drone/mo
- Everything in Operator
- Public viewer with branded URL
- Web admin & loss telemetry
- Priority response
Enterprise
$25k/yr floor
- Multi-agency deployments
- Custom integrations
- Named on-call
- Procurement-ready
Ship a drone feed to your command post in hours, not weeks.
Send us your deployment shape and we'll come back with a pilot plan.
hello@hoverfeed.comIn production with Altametry SmartBalloon aerial systems · live customer deployment since 2025