Drone & UAV Routing API

Routing for things that fly.

A drone moving at 20 m/s has under a second to react to a new no-fly zone, a wind gust or another aircraft. Our engine re-plans the path in milliseconds, up to 302 times faster online or off, by updating only what changed, never starting over. The route is solved, not guessed.

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What it does

A path-planning and re-planning engine that sits behind your flight stack or ground station.

Plan the path

Lowest-cost route across your airspace graph by shortest distance, shortest time or least energy today. Richer cost layers (wind, payload, battery, terrain) are rolling out.

Re-plan instantly

A new no-fly zone, weather cell or aircraft becomes a small cost change. We re-route in the time others take to load the map.

Deconflict the fleet

Plan many craft together so their paths do not collide, and re-plan the whole fleet when one corridor closes.

Run anywhere

On the ground station, in your cloud, or on the craft's own compute. Light enough for a low-power flight controller.

Live asset view

Register each craft, attach the planned path, stream position, see live vs route on our tracking dashboard or via API. Battery % optional in telemetry.

Who it is for

Delivery drones, last-mile, BVLOS corridors eVTOL & air taxis, urban air mobility Survey & inspection, power lines, pipelines, farms Agriculture, spray & scout patterns Emergency & medical, fast dynamic re-tasking Logistics fleets, many craft, one airspace Government / defence, optional category on API

The API

REST over HTTPS. Send coordinates, get a path and turn-by-turn waypoints. Re-route by sending what changed.

# Plan a path
POST /v1/route
{ "from": [-26.10, 28.05], "to": [-26.20, 27.86] }

# Re-route, send only the change (a closed corridor, a new zone)
POST /v1/reroute
{ "from": [...], "to": [...], "prev_geometry": [...], "incident_index": 42 }

# Optimise the order of many waypoints (survey, multi-drop)
POST /v1/optimise
{ "depot": [...], "stops": [[...], [...], [...]] }

# Live tracking, register craft, attach route, push GPS, poll live vs plan
POST /v1/assets
{ "name": "Delivery-07", "category": "drone" }
POST /v1/assets/id/route
{ "from": [...], "to": [...] }
POST /v1/assets/id/position
{ "lat": -26.12, "lng": 28.05, "battery_pct": 78 }
GET /v1/assets/id/live
# → position + planned_route + off_route_m · poll rate = subscription tier

Capability	Status	Notes
2-D path planning & re-routing	● Live	Same engine that powers the live map demo today.
Minimal-delta re-route (millisecond class)	● Live	Updates only the changed segment, our core advantage.
Multi-waypoint optimisation	● Live	Survey grids, multi-drop delivery; re-plan about 100 stops in roughly 1 ms.
Live asset tracking (web + API)	● Live	Dashboard + `/v1/assets/*/live`; rate limits per plan.
3-D altitude layers & climb cost	◆ Rolling out	Vertical corridors and energy-aware climb.
No-fly / geofence ingestion	◆ Rolling out	Import your airspace and restriction data as cost zones.
UTM / airspace-authority hooks	◆ Partner	We provide the routing layer; we integrate with your UTM and approvals.

How we fit. Elara is the path-planning and re-routing engine. You bring your airspace, restriction and approval data; we plan the fastest, safest routes on top of it, re-routing up to 302 times faster online or off because the path is solved, not guessed. Airspace clearance stays with your authority and UTM, and certified integrations ship with our partners.

Routing for things that fly.

Get an API key, plan your first path today and time the re-route yourself, or talk to the team about fleet deconfliction and on-board deployment.

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