Mission-Critical Connectivity
Multi-path bonded transport across LTE/5G, satellite and private RF. Link aggregation, failover policy and QoS tuned so video and voice survive when a single carrier does not.
Government · Public Safety · First Responders
Where hardware meets software at the edge of the mission.
Howidely engineers integrated hardware and software systems for teams that cannot afford downtime — dispatch centers, fire and EMS agencies, tactical operators and field engineering crews. Resilient connectivity, tactical situational awareness, and validated hardware, delivered end to end.
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Uplink
18.4Mb
Nodes
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> bonding: LTE-A + Ka-band link established
01 / About
A systems integrator built for the field, not the lab.
Most vendors sell you a box or a license. Howidely delivers the whole chain — radio and compute hardware selected and validated against real environmental limits, the Linux stack that runs on it, the automation that keeps it healthy, and the operator-facing software that makes it useful at 3 a.m. in the rain.
Tactical Situational Awareness
TAK server deployment, hardening and interface modernization. Federation, data packages, CoT routing and role-based access designed around how incident command actually works.
Hardware Validation & Bring-Up
Board bring-up, thermal and RF characterization, environmental and regulatory test campaigns, and the failure analysis loop that turns a prototype into a fieldable unit.
Linux & Python Automation
Reproducible provisioning, remote fleet management, telemetry pipelines and automated regression rigs — so a hundred deployed units behave like one you can actually see.
UAV & Unmanned Systems
Airborne payload integration, downlink design, ground control interoperability and telemetry fusion into the same common operating picture the ground teams already use.
Secure Deployment Support
Hardened baselines, certificate and identity management, documented change control and on-site commissioning with the operators who will own the system afterward.
02 / History
Built under pressure. On purpose.
Howidely was founded in the middle of a global disruption, for organizations that were not allowed to pause. That origin still defines how we scope, build and ship.
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APR 2020
Founded during the COVID-19 pandemic
Howidely opened its doors in April 2020 with a narrow, urgent mandate: build hardware and software fast enough to let mission-critical teams and enterprises keep operating while their buildings emptied. The first engagements were measured in weeks, not quarters.
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2020 – 2021
The remote-operations pivot
Control rooms, test benches and field equipment had to become reachable from anywhere without loosening security. Howidely delivered remote access layers, hardened Linux baselines, remote hardware test rigs and automated provisioning that turned physical labs and dispatch positions into distributed ones.
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2020 – 2022
Initial A-BOX rollout
A-BOX shipped as a fully customizable appliance: unattended automation of repetitive computer work, secure VPN on the local server, 4 TB of local storage and fail-safe mode with 24/7 script monitoring that emails on interruption. It proved the pattern Howidely still builds on — put the compute where the work is and make it report for itself.
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2023 – 2024
Into public safety tactical infrastructure
Enterprise continuity work matured into dedicated public safety engineering: TAK server deployments, CAD and dispatch integrations, UAV downlink fusion and interoperability between agencies that had never shared a common operating picture before.
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2025 – NOW
TAK Revamp
Current focus: putting the ATAK common operating picture in a browser. Live device map and roster, QR-based enrollment, team chat shared with the handhelds, live video and IP cameras with recording, track playback and viewer/operator/admin roles — everything a shift supervisor needs without installing a tactical client.
03 / Legacy Innovation
Project “A-BOX”
Est. 2020
Inaugural platform
Foundational
Storage
4 TB
Fail-safe
32 GB SD
Monitoring
24/7
Overview
A-BOX was Howidely's inaugural platform — built in 2020 for rapid remote deployment and encrypted operational connectivity. When offices emptied, it was the unit you shipped to a desk, plugged into a wall outlet, and left alone: a fully customizable appliance that ran the repetitive work unattended, held the data locally, and kept a secure link open — while emailing you the moment anything stopped.
Key specifications
Plug-and-play secure remote infrastructure
Small footprint, sleek enough to sit quietly at a workstation. Plug it into a power outlet and it performs whatever task it is programmed to do — including running a secure VPN on the local server so the site stays reachable without exposing it.
Secure VPN
Local server
Desktop footprint
Automated provisioning & workflow
Advanced scripts run silently in the background with no input from the user: repetitive computer activities, form filling, data extraction, cloud storage and cloud computing management, and workflow automation across both local and cloud environments.
Data extraction
Cloud + local
Unattended
High-reliability unattended operation
Fail-safe mode backed by 32 GB of internal SD card fail-safe memory, with automated 24/7 script monitoring that emails an alert the moment a job is interrupted or storage runs low. Shipped with a 12-month limited warranty.
Fail-safe mode
24/7 monitoring
Email alerts
Also configurable as
- ▸Secure media server for an office or home
- ▸Smart device control centre
- ▸Cloud storage manager with local sync
- ▸GPS tracking device
A-BOX is a fully customizable device configured to the task at hand.
04 / Flagship Product
Shipping · v1.11
Next-Gen TAK Server Revamp
A ground-up rebuild of the tactical server experience — the common operating picture your teams already trust, delivered through a modern browser interface fast enough to run an incident from. Shipping today as RTAK Server: one installer, on your own Linux machine, nothing else to set up.
Designed for
Public Safety
Government
First Responders
Core capabilities
Situational Awareness Dashboard
A modern, fast tactical UI built for legibility under stress. Click a unit and its speed, heading, coordinates with MGRS, battery and live video fill a side panel. Admins get a server dashboard: CPU, disk, memory, uptime, sessions.
Details panel
MGRS
Server health
Interactive Geospatial Mapping
Street or satellite basemaps with units appearing and moving as they report. Positions snap to the road they are on, with OpenStreetMap roads drawn over the imagery. No mapping subscription required; Google imagery is optional where you supply a key.
Street · Satellite
Snap to roads
Live populating
Live Video on the Map
Situational live video: select units on the map or in the roster and a small live video opens over each one — several at once, pushed apart when units are close, nothing in the way. Click one to focus it.
Several at once
Pinned to units
Click to focus
Camera Wall & Recordings
Every feed on one camera grid, and recordings that play back whether or not anything is streaming. IP cameras are placed by GPS coordinates, a street address or a street corner, and play even behind port forwarding.
Camera grid
Recordings
IP cameras
Track Recording & Playback
Record chosen units or all of them, then replay a recording or any time range at the speed you choose — a distinct trail colour per unit, following one or keeping all of them in frame.
Record
Replay any range
Per-unit trails
Secure by Default
Zero-trust enrollment for every endpoint: one QR scan from ATAK or iTAK, certificates over mutual TLS. Every video stream needs a credential to watch, and HTTPS is one setting away. Crews keep the TAK app they trained on.
Zero-trust
100% ATAK · iTAK
Optional HTTPS
Live interface — mirrors the current build, interact with it
TAK Revamp
live
3 devices
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admin· admin
© Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors
Interface preview — positions and video are simulated
05 / Roadmap
In development
To Be Released Soon
The camera wall and live video over every selected unit already ship (see RTAK Server). The next release turns the map into a full command center: a device inspector with live telemetry, class filters, and a guided enrollment flow for every node. The simulation below previews that interface — explore it, but note that those parts are not yet in the shipping build.
Preview only. The inspector, telemetry and enrollment flow are not in the current release. Roadmap features and timing are subject to change.
Ask about early accessSituational Awareness Room — interactive preview
Situational Awareness Room
Simulation
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Patrol · Android/ATAK
Command · iOS/iTAK
Recon Drone
Perimeter IP Cam
Tactical Feed Console
Streams
0
Avg latency
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Encrypted
100%
Simulated environment — no live systems, feeds or certificates are involved
06 / Projects
Discuss a program
Solutions in the field
Representative programs across connectivity, tactical awareness and hardware validation.
Airborne
UAV Downlink Integration
Payload and telemetry integration for unmanned platforms, pushing live video and position into the same operating picture ground crews and incident command already run.
- MAVLink
- RTSP
- Telemetry
Remote Dispatch Continuity
Distributed console positions with hardened remote access, session recording and deterministic failover — so a dispatch floor can operate from three locations at once.
- Zero-trust
- Failover
Automated HW Validation Rig
Python-driven regression benches with instrument control, thermal soak profiles and automated report generation — turning a week of manual testing into an overnight run.
- Python
- SCPI
- CI
Multi-Agency Interoperability
Bridging fire, EMS, law enforcement and emergency management onto shared awareness without forcing any of them to abandon the systems they already trained on.
- Gateways
- CAD
* Program descriptions are representative. Specific client engagements available under NDA.
07 / Leadership
Engineering-led from the top.
Anderson Alexander Barbosa da Silva, MBA
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
- Experience
- 20+ yrs
- Focus
- HW/SW Integration
- Languages
- Multilingual
Dejero
Teledyne FLIR
BlackBerry
"The teams we serve don't get a maintenance window. That constraint should shape every design decision — from the connector we choose to the way a status page reads at 3 a.m."
Anderson is a multilingual engineering executive with more than two decades spanning telecommunications, unmanned aerial systems, mission-critical connectivity, Linux and Python automation, and hardware validation. He founded Howidely in April 2020 to close a gap he had seen repeatedly from the inside: hardware teams and software teams solving adjacent halves of the same problem, with the operator left to bridge the difference.
His background includes senior engineering leadership at Dejero, where resilient bonded connectivity for broadcast and public safety is the core product; Teledyne FLIR, working across sensing and unmanned platforms; and BlackBerry, in secure enterprise systems. That path — carrier-grade transport, airborne sensing, and hardened endpoint security — maps directly onto what public safety agencies now need in a single stack.
He holds an MBA alongside his engineering practice, and leads Howidely engagements personally from architecture through field commissioning.
Mission-Critical Connectivity
Expert
Hardware Validation
Expert
Linux / Python Automation
Advanced
UAV & Unmanned Systems
Advanced
08 / Contact
Start a conversation.
Tell us what has to keep working. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team for it.
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