10 Ways Drones Are Changing Your World

Drones have been a hot topic in the news for some time. Depending on what you’ve read, they’re devastatingly effective weapons of war, the next big threat to personal privacy, a revolutionary leap in video technology, or hazardous toys capable of chopping your fingers off.To be fair, there’s a measure of truth to all those statements. But you might be surprised to learn that drones will soon affect our everyday lives in a host of useful ways. People are already using them to deliver fast food to hungry teens in Virginia, improve the productivity of Midwestern farms, and even protect rhinos and elephants in Africa from poachers.In the next year, almost 2.3 million of the unmanned aircraft will be sold, according to market analysis firm Skylogic Research. And the vast majority will be the multi­rotor models embraced by apple farmers, wedding photographers, and search-and-rescue workers.“This is one of the few technologies that could revolutionize the way the world appears,” says Mark Blanks, who oversees the test site at Virginia Tech University where air-­traffic-­control concerns related to drones are being studied.

DJI is undoubtedly the most successful enterprise in China's technology industry in recent years

DJI is undoubtedly the most successful enterprise in China's technology industry in recent years, because it is a native Chinese brand, but in the years to grow into the world's first civilian UAV brand, and even defeated, including 3D Robotics US companies (3D Robotics has switched to do the software).

After all, almost all foreign companies have core technologies and resources (such as Android systems, processors, etc.) in many areas, such as smart phones, PCs, software, games, etc., China's DJI to do the world's first It is not easy. Such as the latest "Royal" Mavic Pro unmanned aerial vehicles, almost won the foreign media unanimously spoke highly of the continent itself represents the concept of continuous innovation.

Mavic Pro first innovation is that it can be folded. In fact, this feature changes the general UAV use patterns. Although you may be in the variety show often see UAV aerial photography, but for ordinary consumers, to spend more than 5,000 yuan to buy a portable "toy", in fact, still some difficulties. Obviously, the foldable Mavic Pro alleviates this problem to some extent.

Second, Mavic Pro to keep the portable folding design, but also the largest integrated high-end technology, such as 4K camera, object tracking, a wide range of connection distance, etc., the price is relatively reasonable.

Currently, the only direct competitor on the market with Mavic Pro is GoPro's Karma, which does not recall the Mavic Pro because of its failure.

Inspire 2 Flight safety to further upgrade

As previously leaked spy photos, the DJI not only to the Inspire 2 has been added in the Phantom 4 and Mavic Pro on the front of the binocular obstacle avoidance camera, Inspire 2 body also joined the top of the infrared perception system. The system can sense the maximum distance of 5 meters from the aircraft's large size, diffuse reflection obstacles.

Why do you need a top obstacle avoidance? The reason is that the DJI obstacle avoidance algorithm finds that the aircraft in the face of the front obstacles may choose to rise up bypass, the existence of the top obstacle avoidance sensor can avoid the aircraft in the rise of fried machine.

In addition to obstacle avoidance, Inspire 2 also has a stronger sense of the environment. The front-of-way obstacle avoidance camera has a working range that is approximately the same as that of the Mavic Pro, which can sense obstacles up to 30 meters away. In the intelligent return process, the aircraft can map obstacles up to 200 meters in real- And select the optimal route return.

As the Inspire 2 equipped with 360 ° PTZ system, in order to protect the two-person flight control is responsible for controlling the flight of the flying hand can accurately understand the UAV flight direction and attitude, Inspire 2 binocular obstacle avoidance camera is also equipped with an FPV first person Camera, flyers can simultaneously view the DJI GO client aerial camera and FPV camera HD map. The FPV camera on the Inspire 2 supports two-axis mechanical stabilization.

If the Flyingman feels at the same time in a screen to see two pictures of the picture, he can also buy DJI Goggle head-mounted display, focusing on FPV map to safely fly. Well, you through the machine lovers, you have not considered buying Inspire 2 to play through?

Electronic components, Inspire 2 inertial measurement unit (IMU), barometer, electronic governor communications and satellite navigation modules are used redundant design, Lightbridge legend also followed the Inspire 1 convention, providing 2.4GHz and 5.8 GHz two bands of redundancy, the boot automatically detect the surrounding radio signal interference, automatically select the 2.4GHz or 5.8GHz interference in the less frequency band, for map transmission and remote control at the same time use. In terms of battery redundancy, the Inspire 2's critical components for flight control and positioning are designed with redundancy and increased safety.

Inspire 2 Powerful to overspeed flight performance

Although the Inspire 2 includes two batteries, the camera does not install the weight of up to 3.29 kg, larger and heavier than the Inspire 1, but this does not affect its output amazing power. Inspire 2 maximum level of flight speed of up to 108 KM / H, but this time binocular obstacle avoidance function does not work. Inspire 2 Zen X4S equipped with the maximum flying time of up to 27 minutes, while the Inspire 1's flying time is only about 15 minutes.

In short, the DJI in improving the Inspire 2 weight, but also further enhance its battery life.

Longer battery life and more powerful motor power means that a battery can not meet the Inspire 2 "appetite." The Inspire 2 requires two TB50 smart flying batteries with an energy of 97.58 Wh and a voltage of 22.8 V. Dahl has developed a dual battery redundancy system for the Inspire 2, and even if one of the batteries fails, another battery will be able to safely fly and return as long as the other battery is fully charged.

In addition to more powerful overall performance, the DJI also for some special environment flight development of the new features and accessories:

Smart battery low-temperature self-heating function, can ensure that the battery at minus 20 degrees Celsius can also maintain good condition, to know the low temperature environment caused by the voltage drop, but pit a lot of photographers;

Optional high altitude paddle to ensure that the aircraft in the highlands of up to 5000 meters can also be normal flight;

DJI’s rapid development

Inspire is the professional level aerial unmanned aerial vehicle released in November, 2014. It can be replaced by a modular Zen thinking camera, retractable tripod, omni-directional PTZ's powerful configuration makes Inspire 1 is used by many professional photographers Instead of the performance of a powerful but bulky, complex large-scale six-axis aerial photography UAV.

In the past two years, DJI has released Zenith X5 and X5R aerial cameras based on the M4 / 3 system. As the two camera arms can be installed on the Inspire 1, the Inspire 1 ontology has experienced only in the past two years Power, design and other subtle changes. Although the camera performance is very powerful, but in 2016 has launched a DJI equipped with computer vision, redundant design and other advanced configuration Phantom 4, Mavic Pro, contrast and then a strong camera can not conceal the PTZ Inspire 1 automation level Low battery life is short, bulky and other shortcomings.

However, the Inspire series of slow upgrade process is also good, DJI can put themselves in the past 2 years, the most representative of the new technology into the Inspire 2 into children, shocked.

Facts have proved that DJI really do so.