FEATURES

Everything a fleet operator needs, and every other tracked entity too.

Karshipta is open-source at its core: the gateway, console, and wire protocol are all AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable for free. A "ward" isn't only a drone: through Herald, our open tracking standard, the same gateway covers livestock tags, generic GPS trackers, and anything else that reports position and status without a flight controller. karshipta.com adds hosted convenience on top, starting with the public guest map.

Fleet operations

Live map, one browser tab

Every ward in the fleet, real-time position and telemetry, on one MapLibre map. No per-ward app, no desktop software.

Commands and missions

Arm, takeoff, land, return-to-launch, click-to-plan waypoint missions. Every command tracked from send to acknowledged, with rejections surfaced, not swallowed.

Any ward type

Multirotor, fixed-wing, VTOL, ground wards today; the schema is built to grow with more types over time.

Beyond drones: any tracked entity

Herald: an open tracking standard

Herald is our open message standard (Apache-2.0, adoptable by anyone) for reporting position, battery, and health from anything that doesn't already have a domain standard of its own, livestock tags, generic sensors, cellular trackers. It doesn't compete with MAVLink; it covers everything MAVLink was never meant to.

Bring your own device

A device can speak Herald natively over HTTP, or keep its own vendor payload and get translated in with a declarative field mapping, no bespoke integration per source. Hundreds of low-cost GT06 GPS tracker models (the ones "under $30 wholesale" heuristic) are supported out of the box over raw TCP.

No drone dependencies required

karshipta-herald is a separate, lean build of the same gateway with zero MAVSDK linked, for a livestock, logistics, or generic asset-tracking deployment that never touches a flight controller.

Self-hosted and secure

Your infrastructure, your data

Run the gateway and console on your own hardware. Nothing about your fleet has to touch a cloud you do not control.

End-to-end encrypted remote ops

Remote command and control rides Noise-protocol encrypted tunnels between your operator and your gateway. A relay in the middle only ever sees opaque encrypted bytes.

One typed wire contract

Every message, gateway to console, is a generated protobuf type. No untyped JSON, no guessing what a payload contains.

Simulation-first

Fly before you buy hardware

The full console runs against PX4 SITL. Plan missions, test commands, learn the interface with zero physical wards.

Demo wards, instantly

Spin up a simulated fleet in the browser with one click, no gateway or simulator required, for a first look or a live demo.

On karshipta.com

Managed relay, no server to run

Pair a gateway with an activation code from the Connect tab; karshipta.com runs and operates the relay for you. Nothing to deploy, nothing to keep patched.

Accounts, orgs, and billing

Sign in, connect gateways under your account, and manage them from one place, with subscriptions handled by Stripe. No database or auth system to stand up yourself.

Public fleet showcase

Share a fleet publicly and it appears on the live guest map, sanitized: delayed, coordinate-decimated, home position never exposed.

No login to look

Guests get a silent, read-only session the moment they land on the homepage. Signing in is only needed to manage your own fleet.

See pricing Self-host it instead, free Read the Herald spec