Case Study: UASidekick achieves safer, more efficient drone operations with Tomorrow.io’s MicroWeather API

UASidekick - Customer Case Study

UASidekick is a flight-planning app for drone operators that streamlines airspace authorizations, flight logging and safety tools; the company needed accurate, low-altitude weather data to help operators avoid precipitation, wind gusts and to perceive cloud-base heights for safe separation from manned aircraft. To solve this, UASidekick partnered with Tomorrow.io to integrate its MicroWeather solution into UASidekick’s real-time FAA Flight Service System app.

Tomorrow.io’s MicroWeather API delivers proprietary, low-altitude, minute-by-minute, street-by-street forecasts (precipitation type/intensity, wind speed/direction/gusts, and cloud base height), enabling pilots to avoid bad weather, plan routes more reliably, and optimize operations. The Tomorrow.io integration increased mission safety and efficiency, reduced weather-related mission failures, and supports UASidekick’s broader safety value proposition — including insurer benefits such as Allianz’s 25% policy discount for app users.

UASidekick

Nathan Ruff

Chief Executive Officer