TechCamerasDronesDJI’s new M30 drone literally flies itselfDJI Matrice 30 professional drone can also be flown in a downpour, snowstorm or galeWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechCamerasDronesDJI’s new M30 drone literally flies itselfDJI Matrice 30 professional drone can also be flown in a downpour, snowstorm or galeWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
DJI Matrice 30 professional drone can also be flown in a downpour, snowstorm or gale
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: DJI)
(Image credit: DJI)
DJI has announced a new commercial drone range with a couple of seriously impressive tricks up its sleeve. First, it can be flown in absolutely appalling weather conditions. And second, when combined with the also-new DJI Dock, it can conduct its own autonomous flights, without you even needing to be there.
While it’s not exactly featherweight (3.7kg takeoff weight), the M30 is impressively portable for a commercial drone. Here it is being casually packed into a backpack and onto a pickup truck.
(Image credit: DJI)
(Image credit: DJI)
Now to trick number two: the Dock. While you can’t sling it on your back like a backpack, the new DJI Dock will let you conduct drone flights without any human intervention whatsoever (after the setup part, of course, using the DJI FlightHub 2 fleet management cloud-based software). Looking like a cross between a camping fridge and a miniature helipad, the Dock opens up to release the M30 for its pre-programmed flight, and once returned, it’ll close up and recharge it ready to go again in as little as 25 minutes. (Of course, there are certain laws around unsupervised flight that you’ll need to adhere to… but still.)
(Image credit: DJI)
(Image credit: DJI)
A clever self-heating battery means the M30 can stay in the air for 41 minutes on a single charge, the smart charging case will juice the battery up from 20% to 90% in 30 minutes, and there’s an integrated battery cooling system too. Like the drones themselves, the Dock is a pretty rugged affair, being waterproof and dust-proof, even when open.
What kind of situation might this kind of drone and setup be useful for, I hear you ask? DJI suggests such anticlimactic but practical endeavours as infrastructure inspection, environmental protection and public safety checks. Or perhaps emergency rescue missions in unfavourable weather conditions.
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(Image credit: DJI)
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The M30 series comes in two versions, the M30 and the M30T, with the main difference being in the camera setup. The M30 boasts a 48 megapixel 1/2'' CMOS sensor zoom camera with 5x~16x optical and 200x digital zoom, a 12 megapixel wide-angle camera, enabling 8k photo 4K/30 fps video resolution. There’s also a laser rangefinder capable of giving the precise coordinates of objects up to 1,200 meters away. The M30T features an additional 640x512 pixel radiometric thermal camera.
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