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At 5:30 am DJI Epidemic Prevention Volunteer Service Team Leader Wang Xuan put out the call on WeChat. By midday, after he and 20 other volunteers wearing masks and goggles had assembled in Shenzhen's Baolong Industrial Park. Two DJI P4R drones hovered overhead, surveying and mapping the environment from all angles, generating HD maps, and sending the planned operation route to ground control.
At 2:00 pm the mission began. The empty streets were now abuzz with the sound of agricultural spraying drones autonomously navigating through the district at a height of five meters and a speed of three meters per second, misting the environment with disinfectant. The drones cycled through the command center for battery and spray replacement, and Wang's team finished the 660 hectare area in about three hours.
Disinfection of public areas is a challenging but crucial process in the fight to stop the spread of the COVID-19. Ad hoc teams of DJI drone hobbyists have sprung up nationwide to provide this service for free.
Wang hasn't stopped working since he first volunteered on February 6. His team has serviced schools, isolation wards, food waste treatment plants, waste incineration plants, livestock and poultry epidemic prevention centers, and more. The cumulative spraying area has reached one million square meters.
Besides disinfection, drones are also being used for public message broadcasting, parcel delivery, and remote body temperature measurement in China.
Shenzhen-based DJI is a leading drone and associated technologies company. There are about 55,000 DJI spraying drones used in farming in China, often with 15 liters capacity; and more than 60,000 drone pilots. Total disinfection coverage of DJI agricultural drones exceeds 600 million square meters across more than 1,000 villages. Plant protection professional Zhao Guo of Shishou City in Hubei Province told Synced he estimates each local township has 3 to 10 spraying drones.
At 2:00 pm the mission began. The empty streets were now abuzz with the sound of agricultural spraying drones autonomously navigating through the district at a height of five meters and a speed of three meters per second, misting the environment with disinfectant. The drones cycled through the command center for battery and spray replacement, and Wang's team finished the 660 hectare area in about three hours.
Disinfection of public areas is a challenging but crucial process in the fight to stop the spread of the COVID-19. Ad hoc teams of DJI drone hobbyists have sprung up nationwide to provide this service for free.
Wang hasn't stopped working since he first volunteered on February 6. His team has serviced schools, isolation wards, food waste treatment plants, waste incineration plants, livestock and poultry epidemic prevention centers, and more. The cumulative spraying area has reached one million square meters.
Shenzhen-based DJI is a leading drone and associated technologies company. There are about 55,000 DJI spraying drones used in farming in China, often with 15 liters capacity; and more than 60,000 drone pilots. Total disinfection coverage of DJI agricultural drones exceeds 600 million square meters across more than 1,000 villages. Plant protection professional Zhao Guo of Shishou City in Hubei Province told Synced he estimates each local township has 3 to 10 spraying drones.
