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Stark Drones is a for profit C-Corp with various sub-entities for different research initiatives. Stark Drones has a multifaceted product portfolio and business plan aiming to tackle a variety of industries. They aim to make money through research initiatives, potential joint ventures, government collaboration opportunities, and the selling of their products. They have a subentity that is a non-profit called the Stark Global Initiative for its philanthropic and charitable projects. They are engaged in building technologies centered around heavily disrupting telecom and infrastructure as industries. In a way, they offer infrastructure as a service, and research as a service. Their primary business model is B2B. They are an emerging company that participates in sensory networks, UART communications, and aviation design concepts. Stark Drones aims to change a variety of industries, mostly centered towards telecommunications and infrastructure. As a startup, we believe that we can collectively build technology that can push forward human progress. We are building things from air powered batteries, to cost efficient internet balloons, to distributed and decentralized grids and powerwalls. Not only that, but we are trying to utilize various technical expertise to make strides in the aerospace industry and human exploration. We want to take a multifaceted approach to create moonshots that take our research into new heights. Stark Drones wants to be more than just another startup, but an inspiration for generations to come. SUCCESS TO DATE We’ve done a city-approved telemetry test launch for an internet balloon system. We are working towards the development of a portable CAES battery system (Compressed Air Energy Storage). Stark Drones have also tested aquatic wireless networks and various modules. We have an intellectual property portfolio, and a portfolio of various different communication protocols and telemetry solutions. We contributed to distributed computing protocols downloaded by over 175k developers. On October 14th, 2022, we reached over 100k subscribers on our YouTube channel through our various efforts. We were given a YouTube Silver Play Button. In relation to our intellectual property portfolio: Our Compression Algorithm, US 16/059,633, was granted and has since been cited by RedHat which is a subsidiary of IBM. We have a communications protocol patent, ZA 2019/01105 that was filed on Feb 21, 2019, which is for a "Low-Frequency Enabled Bluetooth GUI for P2P Device Identifier Communication" pending in South Africa. For August 8th, 2019, our Compression Patent application was filed in China through CN 201910729783X. We have a Computing Method patent (US 17/882587) filed on Aug 7th, 2022, that is pending. We have design patents as well such as one for a Modular Space Plane, US 29/852,695 (Sep 8, 2022) and pending, and an Aeronautical Propulsion Board, US 29/861,864 (Dec 3, 2022) and pending. We have a word mark application for NASCRIPT (NaScript) a programming language that has been in development. Its serial number is 97319685 and it has been pending since March of 2022. Stark Drones is also working on various research disclosures, licenses, and programming languages. NaScript is just the most recent, but it is also developing the languages known as LonScript and ScrubScript. PROBLEM In terms of being reliable, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the power grid a D+ rating. According to BroadbandSearch, a third of the entire world have NO access to the internet as of 2023. The keyholders of the internet is a select group of people, and most of the internet is severely centralized. These three problems dramatically need to be fixed. When you are looking at a broken grid, a third of the world being unconnected, and a seemingly too centralized internet that can potentially limit intellectual diversity, then you are stuck with a problem that technology created but have not efficiently found a means to solve. SOLUTION Stark Drones has a CAES battery system (Compressed Air Energy Storage) that is designed to be almost 1/7th of the price of comparable Lithium-Ion batteries and can potentially be charged in nearly 15 seconds' time. Other technologies they utilize is a distributed P2P (Point 2 Point connectivity module), and a $1400 alternative to $50,000+ balloon-based telemetry systems, that as an alternative cost potentially only $140 to build (in raw materials). Even if you want a longer-range model that uses a Helikite or Aerostat, likely the price would still be affordable compared to other market systems. These systems are being utilized as an updated solution to current grid, wireless transmission, and energy systems that we use today. Currently, this could allow for a more distributed and open internet as well as more importantly, being able to upgrade grid power and transmission infrastructure. Stark Drones also utilizes novel uses of the same technology for highly advanced research topics and projects on the side, as Stark Drones is heavily engaged in sustainability research, especially in relation to the scarcity of resources or finding alternatives to outdated technologies. Utilizing a Spark.io Photon Board and a custom microsatellite for a range transmission and extension network, was the deployment of a test internet balloon system for a tethered telemetry test. We had to utilize multiple party tanks of helium (about 11), given there was a nationwide helium shortage at the time. Once the balloon was deployed, we were able to land it back safely and release the helium out of the balloon for any potential relaunch. It was a pricey launch at $1352.03 (excluding the videography) but was quite cost efficient for the time being. Costs like these are far below standard for this industry. Stark Drones tested aquatic wireless networks and various modules. The best signal strength result in relation to the LoRaWAN transmission was -75 dBm. There are various other networking protocols and range extenders in play here as well. The full hardware setup does include ESP8266 WiFi modules, Lightweight BLE, a module for UART, and a 4G PHAT as well as the involvement of a relay switch. This was tested on July 16th, 2022, at Port Huron, Michigan at the Lakeside Beach and Park. Outside of this, Stark Drones have done and presented various work w/ Wireless networking protocols, such as what was presented in the presentation seen here. Stark Drones has been working on a variety of projects including Internet Balloons, Aquatic and Underwater Wireless Networks, water harvesting solutions, the development of a Space Plane, and experimental research towards the development of an actual hoverboard as well as the development of a compute module. For the 2023 development timeline, Stark Drones is hoping to make continued progress within these areas as well as the development of UAVs that meet a specialized purpose. During 2023/2024, we want to work on firefighting UAVs and hope to come up with a streamlined route for development and partnering with potential fire departments who may be interested. We hope to have some of our more commercially viable and applicable research implemented within local cities and municipalities. 2023, will also be the year that we potentially enter into projects that have more of a global impact. We want to build a virtualized incubation hub and distributed network within the countries of Egypt, Syria and Israel to build technology that impacts surrounding regions through various citizen science, sustainability and social good initiatives. We are also working on developing and stress testing some machine learning algorithms, including a transcription and translation project that focuses on mass translation of ancient books such as the Qumran Caves Scrolls and τὰ βιβλία into some of the world's lesser known/unknown languages. Projects like these can be a testimony into some of our algorithmic capabilities. We plan to target a variety of sectors with a focus on sustainability, including alternative energy, water resources, and even projects centered around limiting food waste. Stark Drones is very mission driven. In all honesty, while our original Water from Air attempt wasn't the best, 2023 offers the flexibility of us seeking out further R&D funding and learning from past mistakes. The combination of water monitoring and cleanup solutions (our Aquatic Networks), water harvesting solutions (Water from Air), and our resource limiting solutions (Firefighting UAVs for droughts), create what Stark Drones believe to be a full pipeline for maximizing people's access to clean and abundant water on a global scale. The compute module utilizes a variety of different parts and is the successor to ChainBoard with added signal logic. This module is designed to power data transmission as well as be the full-on data logger and controller for lots of Stark Drones launches. It utilizes a signal computing method which is patent-pending under 17/882587 as of August 7th, 2022. The founder of Stark Drones also created various other related IP in (direct and indirect) relation to the software and hardware configurations of this compute module. Stark Drones oversees the distribution and development of various open-source licenses and software. They also utilize the power of open source to introduce to the world concepts behind some of its more advanced proprietary technology. Stark Drones utilizes and distributes both proprietary tech and open source for a variety of things and aims to get the best of both worlds. As of November 27th, 2022, the Decentralized-Internet SDK repository has reached over 133k downloads just from NPM alone. On the GitHub Marketplace, it has reached 819 people subscribed to the open-source application (for repo tracking purposes), of which it has an 82% active retention rate based on installed vs. not installed. That SDK is an open-source dev kit and library for building an offline-centric network centered around distributed data sharding. It includes clusterpost and the gridbee-framework, amongst other repos. It also implements BOINC. It is mostly hosted through a single monorepo and is one of the largest dev kits for distributed and grid computing projects, as well as a decentralized web. According to BOINC's website, a small team wanting to process 100 TeraFLOPS for 1 year, would only pay on average $125k using BOINC and the power of volunteer/grid computing as opposed to $175 Million hosting on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud. Since BOINC is open-source, the decentralized-internet SDK aims to take that same philosophy and integrate it into the world of decentralized applications. Stark Drones oversees the distribution of that SDK. BUSINESS MODEL Stark Drones has a multifaceted product portfolio and business plan aiming to tackle a variety of industries. They aim to make money through research initiatives, potential joint ventures and government collaboration opportunities, and the selling of their products. In a way, they offer infrastructure as a service, and research as a service. Their primary business model is B2B. MARKET According to the Business Research Company, the telecom industry may reach a $3.8 trillion dollar market size by the year 2027. Also, according to Fortune Business Insights, the smart infrastructure market size may reach $413.16 billion by the year 2028. This means that the two primary industries we are trying to build technology in, could potentially reach a total market size of over $4.2 trillion dollars. PRESS Huron Daily Tribune - Internet balloon to be tested in Harbor Beach Cleveland Water Alliance - Erie Hack 2021: Meet Our Semifinalists! - Cleveland Water Alliance Northwestern Michigan College - Lakebed 2030: Schedule (Stark Drones) Hackernoon - Introducing Stark Drones: Propelling into the Future Government Technology - What’s New in Civic Tech: D.C. Picks GigabitDCx Semi-Finalists DC.gov OCTO - Mayor Bowser and OCTO Announce #GigabitDCx Semi-Finalists

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