Some information about drones

Drone, as the name suggests, is a pilotless aircraft. Since the birth of the aircraft in the early 20th century, due to the safety of flying aircraft, people at that time have put forward the idea of unmanned aircraft. Until the 1930s, the British Ferrer company transformed a "Queen" double fixed wing aircraft into an unmanned target aircraft, which opened the prelude of Drone entering the aviation history.

As Drone technology matures, manufacturing costs and entry barriers are reduced, the consumer Drone market has broken out, while the civil Drone market is on the eve of the outbreak.

market size

In 2015, Chinese enterprises accounted for half of the unmanned aircraft exhibition area at CES. For every 10 Drones sold in the world, seven are made in China.

Dajiang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its total revenue in 2014 was close to 3 billion yuan, which increased by 100 times in five years. The company also occupied more than 70% of the global small Drone market, and 80% of its products were sold abroad. At the end of last year, Yihang, which obtained $10 million of GGV capital in round a financing, said that its valuation in six months had increased by 25 times. Jifei technology completed the round a financing of $20 million in August last year Raptor technology also invested 50 million yuan in zero degree intelligent control to enter the consumer Drone market.

Mobile Internet brings new opportunities to Drone, and also reduces the operation threshold. Yihang company, which launched the first Drone flight operation through mobile app, has recently launched a somatosensory control mode Drone, which makes the Drone flight simple and easy to use. Xiong Yifang, founder of Yihang, said, "the avatar somatosensory mode developed by the company will inject a new intelligent gene into the blood of Drone, leading the whole Drone industry into a new era of somatosensory control."

Application of Drone

Aerial photography

With the rapid development of civil Drone, more and more Drone

Drone

s appear in advertising, film and television, wedding video recording, etc. At the end of 2014, at the second London Chinese Film Festival, "flying over Shanxi" won two awards: the best aerial documentary special award and the best Aerial Photography Award. Nearly 300 Drone shooting points were planned and executed during the shooting of the film, and many close range shots were taken by Drone, which produced an unexpected excellent effect.

Electric power inspection

On April 9, the power transmission inspection office of Jinan power supply company, together with Shandong Electric Power Research Institute, carried out Drone inspection work on the four base large crossing tower across the Yellow River. Drone inspection has the advantages of unlimited height, flexible inspection, convenient photography and comprehensive angle. It is especially suitable for the inspection of large span tower and makes up for the shortage of manual inspection.

News report

CNN has been licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test Drones equipped with cameras for news coverage. As early as in the 2013 Lushan earthquake relief, CCTV news used a Drone independently developed by Shenzhen Yidian Technology Co., Ltd. to shoot aerial video of the disaster area. Where the disaster relief personnel cannot reach, the Drone can easily pass through. While monitoring the secondary disasters such as mountains and rivers, it can also use the infrared imager to search the trapped people in the air.

Protect wild animals

The shadow vision foundation, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands, and other organizations are using modified unmanned aerial vehicles to provide key data for the protection of endangered species. Their vehicles have been widely used in Africa. The improved Drone can also be used in anti poaching patrol. The Royal Society for the conservation of birds, a charity for Nature Conservation in the UK, is also applying more and more Drones to the protection of birds and natural habitats.

environmental monitoring

Drones have been used more and more frequently in air pollution law enforcement. Environmental protection departments began to use Drone aerial photography to directly inspect the operation of pollution discharge and desulfurization facilities of key enterprises such as steel, coking and electric power.

Express delivery

Alibaba launched a three-day Drone delivery service test in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, using the Drone to express ginger tea boxes to customers. These Drones will not fly directly to the customer's door, but will fly to the logistics site, and the "last mile" delivery is still in the charge of the courier. Abroad, Amazon has Drone test centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Last year, Amazon said its goal was to deliver packages to millions of customers using unmanned aerial vehicles, and customers could wait up to half an hour after placing an order.

Provide network services

As early as 2014, Google acquired Titan aerospace, a Drone company. At present, it has successfully developed and started to test the Solara 50 and 60. By absorbing solar energy to supplement kinetic energy, it can continue to sail in low earth orbit for 5 years without landing. Titan said that through special equipment, its high altitude Drone can provide up to 1GB network access service per second. Facebook has also acquired Ascenta, a maker of drones, and set up connectivity lab to develop their own Internet connection technologies, including satellites and drones.

Make romance

Proposing marriage and transporting rings through drones quickly made headlines in major media. Meanwhile, drones, a technology product, also entered the public view. Before this, the Drone for delivery and water test on the online shopping platform has also attracted the attention of many users. The drone immediately made headlines in major media entertainment editions. The Drone in the proposal picture was quickly picked out by netizens as the product of Shenzhen Dajiang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. - Phantom 2vision +. Dajiang company announced that its revenue in 2014 was nearly 3 billion yuan, which increased 100 times in five years. With the news of online shopping platform and other Drone delivery, the commercial prospect of Drone seems to be very beautiful: using Drone waiter to deliver drinks to guests, Drone shooting volcanic eruption, using Drone to patrol border lines and spray pesticides Industry insiders believe that Drone has become a hot spot of development and its investment value is obvious. However, experts warn that there are low altitude controls all over the world, and it is impossible to popularize Drones.

Future development

Express business

It was at the end of 2013 that Drones came into the eyes of consumers. Amazon has unveiled a slightly sci-fi logistics plan called prime air. According to the prime air project plan, Amazon will use unmanned aerial vehicles to transport small packages and complete the whole process from receiving orders to receiving goods. The delivery takes only 30 minutes. It also showed the whole dispatch process with a video on the Internet.

In terms of Drone projects, Amazon, Google, DHL, ups and other international e-commerce and logistics giants have long had a layout. Shunfeng is one of the earliest domestic express companies to taste Drones. At the end of 2013, after the Drone test of SF express in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, it still belongs to the internal test stage, and there is no update progress.

From the perspective of the application field of small Drone, it has developed from the original entertainment function of enthusiasts and enthusiasts to the fields of aerial photography, search and rescue and logistics, and the market space has greatly expanded. According to the analysis of GF Securities Development Research Center, the Drone market planning for logistics is relatively large, while the Drone technology for user entertainment is highly mature.

expectation

The future development of civil Drone will focus on the subjective use mode and safety of Drone. First of all, after the price of Drone has dropped sharply, ordinary small civil Drone is more likely to be used as a monitoring tool, at the same time, the safety can not be guaranteed. For the sake of security and privacy, countries in the world have not fully opened their regulatory policies to civil Drones. Secondly, as mentioned above, due to the fact that Drones still do not have the ability to sense and avoid objects, all countries have encountered normative difficulties in airspace supervision on how to bring Drones into the airspace of general aircraft. Therefore, different countries make different restrictions on the flight of civil Drone, which forms an inevitable obstacle to the development of civil Drone. But from the course of Drone airworthiness development, the Drone airworthiness work of all countries has been actively promoted by their industrial departments. In the future, the development of civil Drone will not only be limited to the improvement of objective technology and equipment, but also the ultimate factor to promote the popularization of civil Drone is the degree of understanding of civil Drone and subjective regulatory policy.

Anyway, it can be said that Drone is just the beginning. In the future, there are still many interesting things to pay attention to and study. Entrepreneurs are rising, users are rising, and applications or ways of use are becoming more and more diversified.