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Drone trade chief AeroVironment acquired an extravagant reward within the ol’ company stocking this 12 months – nationwide media publicity.
CEO Wahid Nawabi appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money final week to tout the wonders of Quantix, a $16,000 hybrid plane designed to be used by farmers and different agricultural execs.
Nawabi shared with host Jim Cramer:
“What we’ve done is we’ve taken drones and software analytics and turned it into an app. If you can turn on a tablet, push ‘Go,’ the drone and the software does all the rest. It’s fully automatic: take off vertically and transition to horizontal flight, come back and land on its own while you’re having a cup of coffee.”
The firm states Quantix offers farmers with “the same air superiority, trusted certainty and security AeroVironment is known for as the leading drone supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense.”
Indeed, Quantix sports activities a robust array of options tailor-made for aerial imagery and data-driven evaluation for the agricultural sector.
Quantix by the Numbers
- Long-range – Flies as much as 400 acres per 45 minute flight
- Cruising velocity of 40 mph
- FAA compliant: 400 toes AGL, visible line of sight
- Features “Return Home” and “Emergency Land” override options
- Dedicated interface through included Android™ pill
- “Push-to-launch” command
- Automated takeoff, flight and touchdown
- OneTouch planning & launch
AeroVironment unveiled Quantix final 12 months on the Drone World Expo. “We started with the customer’s needs and built backwards,” product-line supervisor Tom Stone mentioned on the expo’s press briefing. “It is all about acquiring the data . . . if you can draw a box and press a button – you can fly it.”
Following the disclosing, DroneLife editor-in-chief Frank Schroth supplied this insightful evaluation:
“In providing this solution, [AeroVironment] will be competing with more recent nimble companies such as DroneDeploy and Kespry. They seek to emulate the benefits of those systems (e.g. ease of use, powerful cloud based analytics) with their heavy duty drones. However, we expect this to come at a bit of a cost.”
