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 client drones and robotics.
The platform options varied bits of know-how 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 know-how, 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 business onto a single board, enabling OEMs to construct drones which might be lighter, smaller, simple to make use of and inexpensive 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 growth, whereas providing innovative options corresponding to 1080p 60fps video seize and laptop picture processing capabilities. Sooner or later, Qualcomm plans to assist 4G LTE dongles too, which implies that drones constructed on this platform will have the ability to ship information, corresponding to picture, again to customers over common LTE networks and may additionally ultimately have the ability to use service networks to manage them.
Radiant Insights means that the worldwide business drone market will increase from $609 million in 2014 to $4.8 billion by 2021, so Qualcomm may very well be properly positioned to capitalize on this market progress with its Flight platform. Snapdragon Flight is accessible at present for choose OEMs, and is anticipated to be powering business drones on the cabinets by 1H 2016.
