In the just-concluded 2017 Venture50 Sprout List, Shanghai Boonray Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. from Vπ stood out from the vast selection and became "China's Most Valuable Investment Enterprise". This means that the capital world has begun to pay attention to the application field of drones, which not only has a large number of gaps to be filled in China, but also conforms to the development wave of the era of artificial intelligence.

Teach you the right way to use drones: commercial applications

Usually people's impression of drones only stays on taking pictures for entertainment, but have you ever thought that this is just the wrong way to use drones?

Fortunately, Boonray has already taken a step ahead, transferring drones from the entertainment use of the C-end to the commercial application of the B-end.

According to Hu Xinyi, CEO and co-founder of Boonray, Boonray's drones can solve various engineering solutions for enterprise users, especially in the construction, planning and operation and maintenance of infrastructure such as bridges and roads. Airplane inspections take data, which can help companies complete their work more conveniently.

In addition, Boonray drones can also serve government-level users. At present, cities in China are actively building smart cities. The emergence of drones can help the government to deploy information management. Measure, plan and govern in the relevant area. At the same time, security patrols can also be covered by drones. Their most powerful ability is that they can go to the sky and see clearly anything on the ground.

It is not difficult to see from the above introduction that the general trend of the development of drones is to develop from the personal entertainment level to the commercial application level, but unfortunately, there are not many domestic enterprises using drones. Hu Xinyi believes that this needs to be done. an educational process.

Smart businesses understand the cost savings of drones

At the current stage, there are many domestic companies producing and manufacturing drones, and there is a scarcity of development and applications, which makes companies feel that they can’t start with drones. One is that they don’t understand and then pretend, and the other is that they will not use the data collected by drones. analysis.

Boonray is currently working hard to popularize the commercial application of drones. Hu Xinyi said that Boonray is an intelligent technology company because what they do is to make drones more intelligent and reduce their dependence on people. Usually a set of Boonray products will include drone + system. After a preliminary debugging, the drone can fly automatically according to the plan, and then upload the collected data to Boonray's cloud database, and then automatically return after analysis. to the company.

Regarding the labor cost of drone PK, Hu Xinyi gave an example. He said that in general photovoltaic power station survey work, manual work requires the company to send two employees, and the manual measurement of climbing up and down takes at least two days. If a drone is used, an employee can simply operate the drone to lift off in 20 minutes, and then all the work is done intelligently by the drone.

Hu Xinyi pointed out that the labor cost of many infrastructure projects is huge. For example, the annual inspection cost of the Donghai Bridge costs millions. If Boonray's smart drones are used to work, the cost can be reduced by at least 50%. And usually, with one commissioning and installation of Boonray, the drone can operate for 10 to 20 years.

Settling in Zhangjiang and developing rapidly, the humanistic environment helps high-tech companies

Boonray was founded at the end of 2015 and currently resides in Vπ Zhangjiang Entrepreneurship Workshop@Naxian800. It has been developed for less than 2 years, but its development speed is very fast. It has served dozens of enterprises, including many government and central enterprises, and the product model is developing from customization to modularization, which greatly increases the output.

Hu Xinyi said that the development of the company is inseparable from a good platform, and choosing to develop in Zhangjiang is really a correct decision. It has the reputation of China's Silicon Valley, the first-class policy support, the surrounding talents gather, and more importantly, the human environment is first-class. . Zhangjiang has a strong attraction to high-tech enterprises, especially the agglomeration effect that has been formed, allowing enterprises to share industrial dividends.

It is understood that Boonray won the angel round of investment last year, and recently, after winning the top 50 award in the new shoot list, it is still continuing to promote financing projects.

Regarding the future development of Boonray, Hu Xinyi revealed that it may be "going overseas". At present, the Boonray team is also a gathering of international talents. In the future, the commercial application of Chinese drones will be introduced abroad. At present, among Boonray's customers, Singaporean companies and Japanese companies have come to visit and negotiate.