For research teams and environmental programs

Environmental and field research monitoring, live from anywhere

Hover brings live video and sensor readings from remote study sites to one private page your whole team can watch, over cellular or satellite, with nothing to install on the viewer's side. Field cameras, drones, and low-cost LoRa sensor nodes land on the same live map and timeline; describe in plain language what you are watching for and the AI flags it as it happens.

Signal flow
01 · Remote sources
Camera
Drone
Sensor
Drifter
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We bring the feeds from the field

Live · over cellular
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We turn them into intelligence with AI

Sees · understands · responds
04 · Outcomes
The site, live, for everyone
AI on watch between visits
Cheap to run

In short: Hover brings live video and sensor readings from remote study sites to one private page your whole team can watch, over cellular or satellite, with nothing to install on the viewer's side. Field cameras, drones, and low-cost LoRa sensor nodes land on the same live map and timeline; describe in plain language what you are watching for and the AI flags it as it happens.

Fieldwork's visibility problem

The study site is hours away, and the interesting event happens between visits.
Data loggers hold their readings until someone physically collects them.
Cameras that stream need infrastructure the site does not have; cellular-only links drop ordinary streams.
Collaborators and students want to see the site live, and there is no clean way to share it.
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One live view for cameras, drones, and sensors

Point a field camera (RTSP) or a drone (RTMP, MAVLink telemetry optional) at Hover and the feed goes live on a private, PIN-protected page. Add LoRa sensor nodes, battery or solar powered, and their georeferenced readings join the same live map and timeline as the video: one shared picture of the site, not a second system. The relay is built for weak field links; on signal drops it retransmits and the feed recovers. Enable recording per deployment and observation windows file into browsable recordings with timestamps.

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Built on open field hardware

You do not need commercial monitoring hardware to use this. The sargassum drifter is an open-source reference build: a low-cost, solar-powered drifting platform whose camera and sensors feed a Hover live view from open water. Fork it, adapt it to your study, or use it as the pattern for your own site hardware; the write-up is on the blog.

What research teams get

The site, live, for everyone.

One private page for the lab, collaborators, and partner institutions; nothing to install.

AI on watch between visits.

Describe the event you care about in plain language and get flagged when it happens, with the moment on record.

Sensors and video in one timeline.

Readings and footage line up, so the number and the picture tell one story.

Cheap to run.

Start free with your own equipment; low-cost nodes report for years on battery or solar.

FAQ

What can feed the live view?

Field cameras over RTSP, drones over RTMP with optional MAVLink telemetry, and LoRa sensor nodes with georeferenced readings. Everything lands on the same live map and timeline.

Our sites have no fixed internet. Does it work?

That is the design case. Streams ride LTE, Starlink, or cellular, and the relay retransmits on signal drops so the feed survives weak field links.

Can the whole team watch without accounts?

Yes. The live view is a private, PIN-protected page that opens in any browser with nothing to install. Collaborators, students, and partner institutions can watch the same session.

Can we build our own field hardware for it?

Yes. The sargassum drifter is an open-source reference build: low-cost, solar-powered drifting hardware whose camera and sensors feed a Hover live view. The repo is public at github.com/hoverhq/sargassum-drifter.

Is the data recorded?

Enable recording per deployment and each session finalizes into a browsable recording with timestamps, so observation windows can be reviewed after the fact.

What does it cost?

Start free with your own equipment. Paid plans grow with video hours and features, which keeps small research programs cheap to run.

Put your study site on a live page

Connect a camera in minutes, or start from the open-source drifter build.