AI-integrated drone software

Real-time animal detection, from the air.

Drone Camera Action pairs a drone-mounted thermal and RGB camera with on-device AI, giving livestock and game-farm owners real-time, GPS-tagged alerts on their animals. Confirm each sighting in one tap, and every flight becomes training-ready data.

Get in touch See the platform
On-device
Inference runs on the phone, no signal required.
Dual sensor
RGB and thermal models switch with the camera.
Field-first
Built for farms where connectivity is not a given.

What we build

An end-to-end detection platform

Drone, phone, and cloud working as one system, built for the field where connectivity cannot be assumed. Locate, count, and monitor your animals faster and more safely than a manual patrol.

01FEED

Live video feed

Raw RGB or thermal frames stream from the drone over the local link and render in real time.

02DETECT

On-device ML

Detection models run entirely on the phone and switch automatically with the active camera. No mobile signal required.

03ALERT

Detection alerts

The operator is notified the moment the model flags an animal, with a bounding box drawn over the feed.

04CONFIRM

One-tap confirm

A person in the loop confirms the species, capturing the frame and saving a trusted sighting.

05SYNC

Sync to cloud

Confirmed sightings upload as structured, GPS-tagged records. The cloud backend runs preprocessing and validation before they reach the training pipeline.

06IMPROVE

Models that learn

Every confirmed sighting becomes labelled data, so detection gets sharper over time.

From take-off to data

How it works

Five steps, field to cloud.

  1. 01

    Connect

    The drone controller and the phone discover each other over Wi-Fi, and the live feed starts automatically.

  2. 02

    Fly

    The pilot flies the survey, or a supervised Planned Flight waypoint mission, always in command and within visual line of sight.

  3. 03

    Detect

    On-device models flag animals live and draw detections over the feed.

  4. 04

    Confirm

    One tap confirms the species and saves the sighting locally, even with no connectivity.

  5. 05

    Sync

    Back in range, sightings upload to the cloud as training-ready records.

Detection classes

Trained across thermal and RGB

The models run in both thermal and RGB, and every detection returns the same schema: class, confidence, and bounding box. Cattle and sheep are trained and validated today, with game species in active development.

  • CattleLive
  • SheepLive
  • Elephant
  • Giraffe
  • Lion
  • Wild Dog
  • Buffalo
  • Zebra
  • Blue Wildebeest
  • Hippo
  • Cheetah
  • Serval
  • Rhino

About

A Cape Town technology company

Drone Camera Action (Pty) Ltd is a South African technology company building AI-integrated drone software for livestock and game-farm operators. We combine drones, on-device machine learning, and a Google Cloud backend into one practical system for locating, counting, and monitoring animals in the field. Wildlife and conservation are a longer-term direction for the same technology.

Based in
Cape Town, South Africa
Built for
Livestock & game farms
Detection
Thermal & RGB, on-device
Stack
Flutter app, Google Cloud

Contact

Talk to us

Interested in a pilot, a partnership, or a demo? We would love to hear from you.