Contact person: Business Client

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Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Budget: Recommended by industry experts

Time to start: As soon as possible

Project description:
"We need a super low cost airframe, flight controller, portable carry case that can be sent by courier from home to home; what I need now is the glue that lets them work together as a single, reliable inspection platform for real-estate applications. The goal is to courier a drone that a homeowner can open, take off, run a mission around, over and inside, throughout a property without a person directing the drone, collect high-resolution RGB imagery, LiDAR point clouds, then land and off-load everything in tidy, geo-referenced files—no human steering required beyond pressing “Start” and off, giving the drone a charge if needed.

Your focus will be the full integration layer: firmware tweaks on the PX4/Ardupilot side, middleware (or an equivalent framework) that fuses the camera, LiDAR.

Deliverables (acceptance criteria)
• Documented system architecture showing data flow between flight and cloud realestate web site.
• Compiled and source builds of the companion-computer software
• Flight-tested parameter set for fully autonomous take-off, mission execution, and landing on a typical suburban home
• Export scripts that bundle photos, LiDAR LAS/LAZ, into a single, aligned dataset with basic metadata.
• A short video (screen + field footage) demonstrating an end-to-end mission and the resulting deliverables.

I’m flexible on the specific libraries you lean on—OpenCV, PCL, RTK-capable GNSS stacks, etc.—as long as the final workflow is stable and repeatable. If this sounds like your domain, let’s talk timelines and milestones so the drone can start earning its keep on our next listing." (client-provided description)