SPH Engineering
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Founded Since 1850
Company Description
About SPH Engineering
SPH Engineering is an expert in drone technology development, providing UAV software solutions, integration services, and custom development to advance drone applications for surveying, data collection and processing, and entertainment.
Founded in 2013 in Latvia (EU), SPH Engineering has a global customer and partner network in over 150 countries.
Core technologies developed by SPH Engineering
- UgCS: Flight Planning & Control
One of the world’s leading flight-planning software for complex drone surveys. - Integrated Systems
The core technology – SkyHub enables the advanced integration of drones, diverse sensors, and the UgCS software, expanding the capabilities of geophysical, hydrographic, industrial, archeological surveying, and environmental monitoring. - Drone Show Technologies
Leading solution to manage drone light shows for entertainment and advertisement. - Data Processing & Custom Development
Solutions for image, point cloud, geophysical data processing, and delivering essential technologies to facilitate your drone-based business.
SPH Engineering started out with the idea that drones are just computers with motors, propellers, and sensors that require smart software to fly efficiently. With this in mind, Alexey Dobrovolskiy (CTO) founded a start-up to test the idea. In 2013, the drone market did not exist yet and drone inspections were almost unaffordable due to high costs and technological complexity. This was not a promising context to introduce UgCS, a universal ground control software for UAV mission planning and flight control. After a few years of ups and downs, market tests, and continuous communication about why software to manage drone flights could be useful, UgCS became an industry-standard solution to support drone pilots and surveyors.
Passionate about innovations and ready to experiment, between 2016 and 2018 the co-founders integrated a GPR sensor with a drone to look for a lost WW2 plane in an expedition to Greenland and developed the first version of software to manage multiple drones to perform a drone light show in a US amusement park. These projects resulted in the launch of two product lines: Integrated Systems, enabling the integration of up to 10+ diverse sensors, and Drone Show Technologies to manage drone swarm shows.
In January 2021, the SPH’s team shifted to its newly built office with an in-house Test Field where part of the entire area is a Test Range dedicated to geophysical sensors.
Mission – Vision – Values
Our mission is to make ideas fly
Our vision is to be at the forefront of technology and innovate in advance
Our values include flight safety, data accuracy, and a professional approach
Core Technologies
UgCS: Flight Planning & Control
UgCS (sphengineering.com/ugcs) by SPH Engineering (sphengineering.com) is one of the world’s leading flight planning software solutions for drones with users in more than 150 countries. Since 2013 the team has constantly been working to make UgCS better and meet the requirements of even the most demanding professional drone pilots and surveyors. What sets UgCS apart from other flight planning solutions is that flight planning is done on PC/Mac, it is installed locally and can be used offline. UgCS is also fast, gives a 3D environment built on a gaming engine to plan flights in, and comes with other important features such as terrain following and LiDAR flight planning tools. UgCS supports the most popular UAV platforms on the market most popular drones including DJI M300, M30, Mavic 3 Enterprise series, M600, M2X0, Inspire, Phantom series, Mavic 2 series, Autel EVO II series and other MAVLink-compatible drones.
Integrated Systems
Integrated Systems (integrated.ugcs.com) is one of SPH Engineering’s business lines enabling the advanced technological integration between a drone, various sensors, the UgCS SkyHub hardware, and the UgCS software. Within 5 years in geophysics, SPH Engineering has developed an in-house sensor test field. Starting out with the integration of Ground Penetrating Radars (GPR) for archeological expeditions in Greenland and Peru, UgCS Integrated Systems has been constantly testing and supporting new types of sensors. Integration of Echo Sounders, Methane detectors, Magnetometers, and Metal detectors, enriched with radar altimeters, is supported across a wide range of industries worldwide.
Drone Show Technologies
Drone Show Software (DroneShowSoftware.com) by SPH Engineering (sphengineering.com) is a technology that allows to benefit in the entertainment market with drone light shows. The software is developed to support UAV fleets of various trusted manufacturers and manage a swarm of drones equipped with lights, fireworks, smoke generators, or other payloads as flying pixels for astonishing shows. It provides customers with a solution to fly a mind-blowing drone show in just a month. Within six years, the software has pushed the organic development of a drone show providers global community. Drone Show Software supports customers in 55+ countries, allowing for a total of 7’000+ drones to be displayed together simultaneously in the night sky.
Data Processing & Custom Development
Data Processing & Custom Development (sdk.ugcs.com) combines solutions for image, point cloud, geophysical data processing, and delivering custom technologies to facilitate drone-based business. The expertise of SPH Engineering team in implementing, integrating, and developing technologies for the drone industry support companies to unleash the potential of unmanned systems.
Our office
Legal Address
- SPH Engineering, SIA
- Dzirnavu 62-9, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia
- Ph: +371 25453422 (EET/GMT+2)
- Sales: ugcs@ugcs.com
- Support: support@ugcs.com
Office Address
- Dzelzs 32, Balozi, Kekavas pag., LV-2112, Latvia
- Ph: +371 25453422 (EET/GMT+2)
For Request from Asia-Pacific Countries
- Ph/Wechat: +37125774334
- Sales: cn@ugcs.com
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