Not content material with powering an enormous variety of units 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 numerous bits of know-how that shall 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 know-how, 4K video seize and twin digital camera 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 business onto a single board, enabling OEMs to construct drones which are lighter, smaller, simple to make use of and reasonably priced with lengthy battery life and superior functionalities.” – Raj Talluri, senior vp, 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 signifies that drones constructed on this platform will have the ability to ship information, akin to picture, again to customers over common LTE networks and can also finally have the ability to use provider networks to regulate them.
Radiant Insights means that the worldwide business drone market will broaden from $609 million in 2014 to $4.8 billion by 2021, so Qualcomm may very well be nicely positioned to capitalize on this market progress with its Flight platform. Snapdragon Flight is obtainable at present for choose OEMs, and is predicted to be powering business drones on the cabinets by 1H 2016.
