# Dotterel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dotterel/  
**Website:** https://konos-sound.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Dotterel Technologies is an Auckland, New Zealand acoustics and audio-hardware company founded in 2015 out of the Callaghan Innovation C-Prize. It began by solving drone noise, building acoustic shrouds, low-noise propellers, and onboard active audio-recording systems for UAVs used in film, security, and noise mapping. That work led to Konos (now marketed as Konos Digital), an 80-element directional MEMS microphone array with a continuously variable 60-300 degree beam width that streams four channels of AES67 / SMPTE ST 2110 audio over a single Power-over-Ethernet cable, targeting film, broadcast, and live-sports production. The microphone exposes a firmware-updatable on-device HTTP control interface (a web page plus a POST control endpoint for beam steering) rather than a public developer web API. Dotterel is backed by Techstars (Adelaide 2017 cohort) and is tracked here as a hardware company; it publishes no public API specification, SDK, or developer portal.

## Kin Score — 8.1 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 8.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Dotterel Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Company, Audio, Microphones, Acoustics, Hardware, Drones, Broadcast, Film Production

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dotterel/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.