Data from IDC shows that in 2015, the sales volume of drones in our country was nearly 100,000, and the market size was nearly 300 million yuan; in 2016, it reached 390,000, and it is expected that sales volume will exceed 3 million in 2019. However, on the one hand, the rapid development of the UAV industry and the continuous expansion of the market scale, on the other hand, due to the lack of effective supervision measures, it has also made the further development of the UAV into an embarrassing situation. Recently, the first “low-altitude digital application innovation base†jointly established by China Mobile 5G Joint Innovation Center, Shanghai General Aviation Industry Alliance, and Huawei WirelessXLabs was officially opened in Shanghai, accelerating regulatory exploration and application innovation after UAV networking. Provides a powerful platform. “The networked UAV connected to the low-altitude mobile communication network can realize the supervision of equipment, the standardization of routes, and the improvement of efficiency, promote the rational use of airspace, and generate huge economic value.†Huang Yuhong, vice president of China Mobile Research Institute, accepted During the interview, he said that drone access to the cellular network will not only help improve supervision, but will also accelerate the innovation and development of drone applications. According to forecasts, consumer-grade drones will reach 16 million units in 2020, and a worldwide tens of millions of UAV networks will be formed. Various types of individuals such as aerial photography, delivery, and surveys will be continuously provided on a 24/7 basis. And industry services, and thus constitute a new, colorful "Network Sky." The drone supervision dilemma urgently needs to break through It is reported that for the supervision of unmanned aerial vehicles, the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have reached some consensus - drones are new and are currently undergoing classified management. "According to the size of drones, we have different regulatory requirements. Two years ago, drones with more than 1.5KG were required to connect to one of the four designated cloud service providers in China to be networked. The trajectory of the man-machine movement includes whether the surveillance flight has exceeded the height or the range, etc.†Chen Guangcheng, head of the General Flight Standards Division of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, told us. He said that the relevant departments have realized that a one-size-fits-all "no-fly" does not solve the regulatory dilemma of drones, and the country has been carrying out top-level design through the "low-altitude digital application innovation base" for drones and cellular internet of things. The in-depth exploration of the combination will help understand the actual issues and provide a reference for drone supervision. It should be pointed out that this innovation base is located near the Pudong Airport, which is respectively a circular airspace centered on Fengxian Fengxian Park and Lingshui Lake West Island, each with a diameter of 6 kilometers and a true height of 200 meters. On the day when the base was unveiled, we would see the large aircraft overhead screaming every few seconds. Scenes of drones and large planes appearing on the same screen will be staged from time to time. Chen Guangcheng told us that the large aircraft we see is at least 900 meters above airspace, and the flying height of drones is limited to 120 meters, so there is no need to worry. "If it can be demonstrated in this environment that low-altitude flights and civil aviation can coexist in harmony, then it will be even more exemplary," said Wang Yufeng, director of WirelessXLabs at Huawei, "The country's opening up of the entire airspace is a comparison." We hope that through this base, we can produce domino effect, and hope that more local governments will implement the practice in the future to identify problems and then solve problems. At the national level, we have already discussed how civil aviation is used in low altitude airspace, but because of various security issues. However, these security issues are still limited to imagination. We now need to prove in practice that we can solve these problems." Networking Opens New World of Drone Applications It is worth noting that the “low-altitude digital application innovation base†will build a 4G+5G network to provide the most advanced experimental environment for low-level digital application innovation. Huang Yuhong said that transitioning from 4G to 5G will bring a leap to UAV networking applications. The larger bandwidth of 5G makes the ability to transmit information stronger, and the ultra low delay means more precise control of the drone. "The drone is actually a flight platform. It carries more than ten times more than the type of business and types that the car can carry. Our base is hopeful that the underlying connectivity is possible, allowing mobile communication technology. Apart from serving people and serving more people, it will bring about tremendous changes," Wang Yufeng explained. Once the UAV is legalized, networking and real-time will bring completely different applications. For example, he said that on a large number of drones equipped with an holographic camera, users can view real-time AR/VR images through 5G ultra-broadband users, thus realizing a real-time immersive experience for travel previews; today's forest fires are only triggered by large fires. It was learned that if a drone equipped with an infrared camera is used to patrol the forest, the fire can be found at the first time, and the alarm can be detected through background artificial intelligence analysis, and corresponding measures can be taken to avoid forest fire; similarly, drones can be used to cruise. Monitor snow conditions in cold regions and avoid the impact of the snow being broken by the snow and thus affecting local life. Wild adventures can also use drones to help find those who have lost their way. According to Wang Yufeng, the real big application of 5G must have grown up in the 4G environment. Just like the application of card slot in the era of 3G smart phones, the cultivation of 5G applications has already begun in the 4G era. “We often say '4G fostering, 5G prosperity' means that we first connect the drones with 4G, which can solve the current 30-60% of the problems, and then we can use 5G to make the application experience even more A step up." At the inauguration ceremony of the Innovation Base, unmanned aerial vehicle companies such as Yihang Intelligent, Yiwate, Youyun, Xingluo Intelligence, Tianyan Laser, Top Attack, Uwes, Okosai, Rongrong Intelligent demonstrated a series of new applications, including UAV logistics distribution, tilt photography, drone management cloud, automatic charging and apron management, laser radar mapping, thermal imaging tracking, solar drones, amphibious drones and so on. Explore the possibility of China's "air corridor" Chen Guangcheng stated that the establishment of the “Low-altitude Digital Application Innovation Base†actually means that China’s exploration of low-altitude airspace has taken the lead in the world. Looking abroad, the United States has already invested more than 10 billion U.S. dollars in the establishment of an "air corridor" plan, which is intended to build the U.S. air traffic system. According to reports, the long-term goal of this innovation base is to digitize the airspace of 10-300 meters across the surface of the Earth. “The first is the inclusion of ultra-wideband connections, followed by ultra-low delay precision control, while introducing spatial self-positioning, and the fourth is microsecond-level high-precision timing, which enables synergy among the various flights in the low airspace. The point made up of the real digitization of the low altitude airspace, so that the application of flying robots can be achieved instead of the aircraft we see today.†Wang Yufeng added. In the short term, the “low-altitude digital application innovation base†hopes that the drone industry will use this platform to achieve faster networking, so that the drone industry can gain some new capabilities through this base in the short term, and enterprises can use this new Realizing the ability to realize a virtuous circle in the industry. In the interview, Wang Yufeng described the picture - using the operator's almost ubiquitous network to connect these flying drones, and the other end connected to artificial intelligence and cloud applications, so that is equivalent to The physical world manages the physical world. People just do a good job of planning and design. Day-to-day flight management allows computer platforms, cloud platforms, and artificial intelligence to process, thereby enabling the entire airspace to be developed step by step - we look forward to this era. SHENZHEN CHONDEKUAI TECHNOLOGY CO.LTD , https://www.siheyidz.com