Public safety technology company Brinc announced a new software platform called LiveOps for managing and monitoring drone fleets, with live streaming, real-time maps, communications, and evidence storage.
The browser-based software expands the Seattle-based company’s scope beyond drone pilots to crisis negotiations specialists, command staff, and other members of emergency response teams. For example, LiveOps offers independent feeds for each team member, separate from what a drone operator is seeing during an incident.
With the inclusion of evidence storage and management in the software, Brinc is edging further onto the turf of Axon, the maker of body cameras and Tasers, whose Evidence.com platform is widely used by police. Axon, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has a major engineering and operations center in downtown Seattle.
Brinc will provide LiveOps as part of its core offering to public safety agencies, in addition to existing unlimited repair and replacement services, training, and hardware upgrades, said Blake Resnick, the company’s founder and CEO, in an email response to GeekWire’s questions about pricing for the software.
Brinc’s drones, including the current Lemur 2, assist first responders in dangerous situations, offering capabilities such as breaking through glass, flipping after a crash, seeing in the dark, and communicating via microphone. The company also offers a Brinc Ball two-way communications device that can be used during standoffs.
Founded in 2019, and based in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, the startup has raised more than $80 million in total funding. Its backers including Index Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, and Next Play Ventures, a firm founded by former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was BRINC’s first external investor.
