Not content material with powering an enormous variety of gadgets in our collective pockets, Qualcomm needs to take to the skies with its newly introduced Snapdragon Flight platform, particularly designed for shopper drones and robotics.
The platform options varied bits of expertise that can be very acquainted to those that observe cellular {hardware}. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 is powering the board, full with 4 Krait CPU cores clocked at 2.26GHz and an Adreno 330 GPU. The 58x40mm board additionally options Qualcomm’s Fast Cost expertise, 4K video seize and twin digicam assist, dual-band 2×2 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and GNSS location capabilities.
“The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight brings collectively the applied sciences which have outlined the cellular trade onto a single board, enabling OEMs to construct drones which can be lighter, smaller, straightforward to make use of and reasonably priced with lengthy battery life and superior functionalities.” – Raj Talluri, senior vice chairman, product administration, Qualcomm Applied sciences
Snapdragon Flight is designed to assist simplify and decrease the prices of drone improvement, whereas providing innovative options akin to 1080p 60fps video seize and pc picture processing capabilities. Sooner or later, Qualcomm plans to assist 4G LTE dongles too, which implies that drones constructed on this platform will be capable of ship information, akin to picture, again to customers over common LTE networks and may additionally ultimately be capable of use service networks to manage them.
Radiant Insights means that the worldwide industrial drone market will develop from $609 million in 2014 to $4.8 billion by 2021, so Qualcomm may very well be properly positioned to capitalize on this market development with its Flight platform. Snapdragon Flight is obtainable right this moment for choose OEMs, and is anticipated to be powering industrial drones on the cabinets by 1H 2016.