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.

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/optimize
{ "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.
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, faster than anything else. Airspace clearance stays with your authority and UTM, and certified integrations ship with our partners.

Routing for things that fly.