The UAV commercial market is fully flowering and the security field is about 180 million.

At present, robots in any field will be the promoters of a new wave of technology. The drone belongs to a branch of the robot and is equivalent to the "flying robot". This is also the reason why the business opportunities in the drone market attract the attention of many startup companies.

The UAV commercial market is fully flowering and the security field is about 180 million.

As drone applications spread into new areas, the potential market for drones is rapidly expanding. In the eyes of the global drone market giant DJI, the drone sales market is divided into two categories. One is aerial photography and the market related to personal and photography. This is called the personal user market. There is also a category of industries such as surveying, security, and equipment testing. These customers are enterprises and governments, also known as commercial drones.

UAV commercial market ushers in an outbreak

The advancement of technical means such as artificial intelligence, drone detection and hedging technology, control and communication, image processing technology, battery life, and the introduction of management systems such as innovative management frameworks and drone operation legislation will be drones. The decisive power of business application development.

At present, China's UAVs are developing rapidly and have become an emerging industry that has received much attention. According to statistics, in 2015, the sales volume of drones in China was about 90,000, and the sales volume of consumer-grade drone products reached 2.33 billion yuan. It is predicted that by 2018, the size of our national drone market will reach 11.09 billion yuan. By 2020, the annual sales volume is expected to reach 650,000, showing a spurt growth.

IDC believes that in the next few years, the global drone market will enter the 2.0 era, opening a second take-off. One of the notable features of the UAV 2.0 era is that the UAV market is dominated by aerial photography, innovation, infrastructure, transportation, insurance, telecommunications, agriculture, security and mining. It is expected that as the drone market moves from the boom to the popular stage, it is expected that the compound growth rate will reach 68% in the next five years.

Plant protection drones have been applied to large-scale applications

In recent years, major countries such as the United States and Israel have gathered concepts and technologies such as communication, navigation, VR, and AI on drones. The large-scale application of drones will be a case in which robots first appeared in our lives. The emergence of multi-rotor drones has given the plant protection industry a new boom. As of October this year, there were more than 6,000 registered UAV-related enterprises in China, including more than 300 enterprises producing agricultural drones.

Now, all players are speeding up the iteration of technology. With the tens of billions of markets gradually opened, Xinan shares, Barida shares, Longxin GM and other listed companies, zero-degree intelligence and other startups have also joined the battle. However, subject to China's national conditions, the speed of plant protection drones may not advance by leaps and bounds.

In addition, for any emerging industry, talent issues are an insurmountable obstacle in the early stages of industry development. Industry insiders estimate that by 2020, China's plant protection drones will reach 400,000, and the demand for flying hands will also increase rapidly. When the market is still small, they can still maintain the balance between supply and demand, and the follow-up will require the parties to jointly contribute to the training of flying hands.

The market size of drone security is about 180 million.

On December 26, Wang Zhanchao, deputy chief engineer of China Aviation Industry Development Research Center, said that China Aviation Industry Development Research Center statistics were from July 2015 to June 2016. The machine industry has a scale of about 180 million yuan in the security field, accounting for 12%. Wang Zhanchao pointed out that although the market size of the UAV industry has a relatively large direct relationship with the population, Beijing, Xinjiang, Tianjin, and Tibet are the national key security areas, and the demand for the UAV market in these areas is even greater.

In addition, Ren Fu, founding partner of Tengfei Capital, pointed out that although the current No. 1 UAV company does not believe that it is necessary to integrate other enterprises, its personal understanding is that the B-level market has its own market areas that can be tapped, but at the C-end. The consumer market will face consolidation in the future, and a large number of companies may face “death”.

UAVs for international humanitarian relief

Internationally, the UN Children's Agency and the Malawi Government are embarking on a collaboration to test whether drones can provide faster and more effective assistance in the event of human disasters such as floods and droughts. In mid-December, UNICEF Innovation Project Leader Cynthia McCain introduced to the media: “This is so exciting. We believe that drones have great potential to help us in a humanitarian emergency. Make an emergency response."

It is understood that this drone test will be carried out in April 2017 in the "Humanitarian Drone Test Corridor", which is located outside the city of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. Although drones have been tested for commercial transport in countries such as the United States and New Zealand, Malawi testing is considered the first time that drones have been used for humanitarian assistance and development.