UAS COMMERCIAL MARKET HISTORY, PRESENT AND FUTURE TON Y (TOAN ) N GO, P HD, C EO & FOU N D ER AT I N TELLIGENTUAS

UAS? UAV? DRONE?

SCENTIST or ENTREPRENEUR There had never been roads on earth. People kept walking and made their ways. (Lu Xun)

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Commercial UAS Market

History, Present and Future Tony Ngo, PhD

CEO & Founder IntelligentUAS

1.Introduction 2.UAS concept 3.History: Model Aviation 4.Present: current products and market players 5.Future: Product and market trends

UNMANNED AERIAL COMMERCIAL MARKET www.1uas.com

UAS = Unmanned Aerial Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Drone

Commercial UAS: - Not toys but tools - Consumer friendly, practical applications - Carry from 5 – 30 pounds

Leading the Unmanned Aerial consumer market

Commercial UAS

“MODEL AIRPLANE”, “RADIO CONTROL AIRPLANE AND HELICOPTERS”

Commercial predecessors - Model Aviation: fix wings and 3D pilots - Customers: hobbyist, enthusiast - Main players: AMA, Align, Gaui -

Commercial UAS predecessors - Model Aviation: fix wings and 3D pilots - Main players: AMA, Align, Gaui - Customers: hobbyist, enthusiast

- Remarkable pilots

MAIN SUPPLIERS AND PLAYERS

Commercial UAS predecessors - Model Aviation: fix wings and 3D pilots - Customers: hobbyist, enthusiast - Main players: AMA, Align, Gaui - Remarkable pilots

REMARKABLE PILOTS and ENTHUSIASTS

- Model airplane is an expensive and high maintenance hobby

How Model RC Airplanes/Helcop ters lead to UAS? - More people want to play and use RC helicopters, but do not want to spend too much money or don’t have the skills and the time - Note: the UAS market did not replace the Model Aviation market, it’s just an expansion of it -

- 3D radio control helicopters are very hard to control and balance When the Radio control helicopter population expanded, they were looking for more achievable solutions: - Multirotor copters (easy to balance, lower maintenance) - Flight control systems  DJI came into picture

DJI Phantom the game changer: - It the first small size ready to fly products

PRESENT - Current products and Technology - Current buyers and consumers - Current Suppliers - Current main players

- It helps people change the concept about “drones” - It has an interesting “evolution” story

Other larger systems: S900, Skyjib…

Technologies: HD signals, Gimbal, Flight control systems will return home feature, way points…

PRESENT - Current products and Technology - Current buyers and consumers - Current Suppliers - Current main players

Major manufacturers: DJI, Parrot, Microdrones, 3DRobotics, AEE, Micropilot…

Who are interested in using a UAS? - Photographers and Movie makers

PRESENT

- Realtors

- Current products and Technology

- Fire Fighters

- Current buyers and consumers -

- Law enforcement - Farmers - Researchers - Environmentalists - Hobbyists - Property owners and managers - Search and rescue crews

How many more you can tell?

What are they doing with drones

PRESENT - Current products and Technology - Current buyers and consumers -

- Fire- fighting/ Search-Rescue - Cellphone tower inspection

- Solar Panel inspection

- Thermal Camera House Inspection

- Lidar sensor on drone:

PRESENT - How many other applications can we have with drones?

+ Short range, 270° scanning LASER rangefinder + Useful in 3D digital surface modeling, stockpile calculation, surface variation detection and flood mapping + Penetrates through vegetation: It can perform plant height measurements by collecting range information from the plant canopy and the ground below (as opposed to the passive optical imagers that provide height data from the canopy) - Hyperspectral sensor on drone: + Plant health measurement + Water quality assessment + Vegetation index calculation + Full spectral sensing + Spectral research and development + Mineral and surface composition surveys

- 3D mapping

PRESENT - How many other applications can we have with drones?

- More UAS Technologies in near future:

DRONES WILL BE MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT AND CAPABLE!

+ Aerodynamic improvement: more flight time and less vibration + Object avoidance + Indoor position hold

- Technology will get more advanced

+ Longer flight time with new battery technologies

- More competition

+ Air-traffic control (No-flight zones near airports currently)

+ Hybrid models: VTOL+Plane, VTOL+ground (spherical design)

- Market expansion - More SUPPLIERS create more competitive market

- More people want to use drones

FUTURE: DRONE WILL BE A USEFUL PART OF OUR WORKS and OUR LIVES - The participation of big corporations - The completions of regulations - The change in people perception

- GOOGLE, AMAZON, UPS, DHL... join the market with their own advanced technologies

- FAA will have clearer regulations - People will change their perceptions about drones: it’s a useful piece of equipment, and have many practical applications - Many negative concerns will be cleared up such as: privacy concerns, safety issue…

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