The second wave pattern and market of unmanned aerial vehicle start-up is still a problem

Is it possible to create a new industry with a space that is less than hundred metres above the head? There may be a new future in the drone industry.

1.5 Before starting a business, as the general manager of the unmanned aircraft, Gaussin also experienced the outbreak of the drone in the past few years, on his desk, stacked with a lot of investors from home and abroad, a variety of "cards." In his view, neither the foreign UAV market, or the domestic UAV market there are still batteries, materials and so on, but the "top of the field" may really become the next wave of high-speed growth of the industry.

The drone is exploding.

Recently held in the United States Las Vegas 2015 International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, the "First financial daily" reporter saw the intelligent hardware field, the most lively exhibition hall is unmanned aircraft, China's civilian unmanned aircraft is occupied by half of the application field in addition to logistics, can also provide WiFi hotspot services, aerial capture mapping.

The Consumer Electronics Association is optimistic that the global civilian drone is expected to sell 400,000 units this year, and the market is projected to grow 55% per cent from last year to $130 million trillion. By 2018, the global drone market is expected to climb to at least 1 billion dollars, and market demand will soon explode.

In fact, in addition to foreign countries like Amazon, Google, Facebook in the introduction of unmanned aircraft, the domestic development can not be underestimated. With the rise of various application scenarios, the UAV has become the new favorite of all industries. For example, 4767 meters above sea level, Kekexili, endless snow-capped mountains, -15℃ of the cold wind, a power patrol line unmanned aircraft slowly take off, such as the Power patrol line unmanned aircraft has been widely used.

And this seductive prospect is attracting capital attention, the domestic unmanned aerial vehicle market in the big Xinjiang innovation is also preparing for a new round of financing, before the news that its valuation reached 10 billion yuan. Another confirmed message is that Xaircraft, another drone company in Guangzhou, has just won a 20 million dollar a round of financing. The other speaker confirmed the news to the newspaper.

"The capital is looking for fast forward, the industry is still very concerned." Gaussin told reporters that he had seen more than 10 investors, and the cards were stacked on the table several times.

The drone boom, which began last year, is the second boom in unmanned aerial vehicles, the first in about 2007 years, according to one investor who is looking into the industry. At this stage, because of the birth of the great Xinjiang in China, many overseas institutions will look to China.

A probe into the business model

But what can a drone do? Why is it that startups and Giants are all in favor of a field that can't be called an industry?

"What you see is the outlook for the industry. Gaussin to reporters that the current industry market prices, unmanned aerial vehicles, whether it is the machine price or personnel control costs are not low. An unmanned aerial vehicle company's shot quote is: 8 axis market price is about 10,000 yuan, 6 axis is 6000 yuan, and 4 axis's minimum also wants 3000 yuan.

"This is because drones still need professional control, not that you can use them if you buy them." Gaussin told reporters.

From the overall market, the price of unmanned aircraft is temporarily in the "Blue sea" stage. One unconfirmed rumor is that, due to the build-up of the frontier in the unmanned Aerial vehicle field, this may be one of the biggest "money" scenes in the field of hardware start-ups, and the benefits to entrepreneurs are already considerable.

In addition to the machine and ancillary products sales, Gaussin told reporters that the application of the scene can also bring considerable imagination space.

Along with "Where is the Daddy" big hot, takes the aerial shoot mission the big Xinjiang unmanned aircraft first to break into the domestic consumer vision, then participates in "the tongue on the Chinese 2" and so on movie film's filming, and cooperates with the foreign Film and television company closely.

In addition to film and television filming, logistics and other industries have entered the scope of the UAV business model exploration.

A very flying spokesman told reporters that the current small unmanned aerial vehicles have been used in medical rescue, low level logistics, security monitoring, forest fire, geological exploration, film and television aerial, aerial mapping, polar examination and other industries. "Now more mature or at low level logistics." Last year, extremely fly and international well-known Logistics Express company joint test flight. "A spokesman told reporters that the company is currently developing the fourth generation of logistics drones, products have been in Australia and China to do trial evaluation."

The reality of bone feeling

Full of the future, a handsome profit, although in the outside world, the drone business is "brilliant", but in the drone field three years of Gaussin think he has missed several opportunities.

"When we first started out, we had no idea of the drone's business model or operation model," he said. Gaussin told reporters that in October 2013, he set up the current company, the team was only 5 people, often a person and a number of jobs, although registered company, but go all team mode, not the company model. He believes that because there are not too many commercial considerations, missed the first wave of opportunity. At that time, the Xinjiang has not yet the fire, billion airlines has not been established.

The second mistake is to overestimate the characteristics of an industry. Gaussin said, because the initial operation of funds is not much, but investment in all aspects need money, in the last February when the logistics drone was very hot, the day rushed in, but the reality is more bony than imagined.

"The investors at the time promised some conditions, but we never got the funding, and the drones always needed technology research and development to challenge a chip that wasn't tens of thousands of trillion dollars, and we knew the problem when investors were unwilling to pay." "That's when he began to think about survival and whether he should continue," Gaussin said. Fully mature, there are also some bottlenecks: Battery relay capacity, which directly affects the drone can fly how far, the ability to avoid collision, that is, in the increasing future of the aircraft, how to ensure that the aircraft between the interference and not collide.

It is because of this challenge that UAVs are currently only enterprise-class applications that are difficult to extend to the consumer sector. Moreover, even if the technological bottleneck is breached, the government must make the corresponding regulations.

"In fact, there are not many companies that dare to take drones to the top of their heads, and there are doubts about security," he said. Gaussin told reporters. However, as an entrepreneur, he still expects the drone market to usher in a "gusty period" more quickly, in addition to aerial filming, the drone can actually do more things.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)