DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced. a New Take on Blended Imaging

Introduction

DJI con­tin­ues to expand its foot­print in the com­mer­cial drone mar­ket. On Decem­ber 15, 2020, the devel­op­er updat­ed the mod­el range of the most portable Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise series of drones, the mod­els of which, over two years of use in var­i­ous fields of human activ­i­ty, man­aged to earn a rep­u­ta­tion as the most pop­u­lar aer­i­al tools.

The DJI Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced is an all-in-one solu­tion that has been improved in response to the com­ments of cor­po­rate cus­tomers and includes a num­ber of improve­ments that can sig­nif­i­cant­ly expand the over­all effi­cien­cy of the UAV.

Peculiarities

• RTK mod­ule for more accu­rate posi­tion­ing
• New more pow­er­ful hybrid ther­mal cam­era
• Simul­ta­ne­ous view­ing mode of visu­al and ther­mal images
• DJI Smart Con­troller
• Com­pat­i­ble with DJI Mobile SDK
• Omni­di­rec­tion­al Obsta­cle Detec­tion
• 3 × pay­load options includ­ed
• DJI AirSense
• Advanced Pilot Assis­tance Sys­tem APAS
• Pro­tect­ing the drone and data with a pass­word
• GPS time­stamp­ing
• Dis­crete mode
• Drone bat­tery heat­ing
• Pow­er­ful pow­er plant with reduced noise
• Max­i­mum hor­i­zon­tal flight speed 72 km/h
• Ocu­Sync 2.0 dig­i­tal video trans­mis­sion tech­nol­o­gy
• Video stream­ing in 1080p qual­i­ty
• FPV removal dis­tance up to 10 km
• Max­i­mum flight time 31 min­utes
• DJI Pilot mobile app
• DJI FlightHub
• Ready to go out of the box

Equipment

The nov­el­ty is sold in a sin­gle con­fig­u­ra­tion — Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced. The Fly More Kit is also avail­able as an option­al extra. To order, it is rec­om­mend­ed to con­tact the near­est offi­cial DJI deal­er, or send your con­tact infor­ma­tion through the offi­cial web­site so that you can be con­tact­ed.

The kit will include:

1. Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced
2. DJI Smart Con­troller
3. Accu­mu­la­tor bat­tery
4. 4 × rotors (2CW/2CCW)
5. 2 × spare rotors (1CW/1CCW)
6. M2E Spot­light
7. M2E Bea­con
8. M2E Speak­er
9. Charg­er
10. Adapter for charg­ing con­trol equip­ment
11. Trans­port case

The Fly More Kit will include:

• 2 × recharge­able bat­ter­ies
• Charg­ing dock 220V
• Car charg­er 12V
• USB con­nec­tor
• 2 × rotors (1CW/1CCW)
• Trans­port bag

Specification

Drone

Take­off weight (exclud­ing addi­tion­al pay­load):

909 gr

Max. take­off weight:

1100 gr

Dimen­sions (L × W × H):

When fold­ed: 214×91 84mm
In flight con­di­tion: 322×242×84mm
Air­borne + Spot­light: 322×242×114mm
Air­borne + Bea­con: 322×242×101mm
In flight con­di­tion + Speak­er: 322×242×140mm
In flight con­di­tion + RTK mod­ule: 322×242×125mm

Diag­o­nal dis­tance:

354 mm

Max. prac­ti­cal ceil­ing above sea lev­el:

6000m

Max. take­off speed:

21.6 km/h (S‑mode)
18 km/h (P‑mode)
14 km/h (S‑mode with pay­load on board)
14 km/h (P‑mode with pay­load on board)

Max. sink rate:

Ver­ti­cal:
18 km/h (S‑mode)
14 km/h (P‑mode)
Cir­cling:
25 km/h (S‑mode)
14 km/h (P‑mode)

Max. hor­i­zon­tal flight speed (with­out wind):

72 km/h (S‑mode)
50 km/h (P‑mode)

Max. flight time (with­out wind):

31 min (at a con­stant speed of 25 km/h)
28 min (with installed RTK mod­ule)
29 min (Bea­con on)
30 min (Bea­con off)
24 min (Spot­light on)
28 min (Spot­light off)
27 min (Speak­er on)
28 min (Speak­er off)

Max. wind speed for the imple­men­ta­tion of a con­fi­dent flight:

10m/s (scale 5)

Max. tilt angle:

35°(S‑mode)
25° (P‑mode)

Max. angu­lar veloc­i­ty:

200°/s (S‑mode)
100°/s (P‑mode)

Oper­at­ing range tem­per­a­tures:

-10°to 40℃

Satel­lite posi­tion­ing:

GPS+GLONASS

Hov­er Accu­ra­cy Range:

Oper­at­ing range fre­quen­cies:

2.400GHz — 2.4835GHz
5.725GHz — 5.850GHz

Trans­mis­sion pow­er (EIRP):

Built-in stor­age capac­i­ty:

24GB

Camera

M2EA thermal camera

Matrix:

Uncooled microbolome­ter VOx

Focal length:

Approx. 9mm
35mm for­mat equiv­a­lent: Approx. 38mm

Per­mis­sion:

640×512 at 30Hz

Dig­i­tal zoom:

16 × mul­ti­ple

Pix­el Pitch:

12 µm

Spec­tral range:

8–14µm

Pho­to for­mat:

R‑JPEG

Video for­mat:

MP4

Method of mea­sure­ment:

Spot meter­ing, Area mea­sure­ment

FFC:

Automatic/Manual

M2EA visual camera

Matrix:

1/2″ CMOS
Num­ber of effec­tive pix­els: 48 mil­lion

Lens:

FOV: approx­i­mate­ly 84°
24mm (equiv­a­lent to 35mm for­mat)
Diaphragm: f/2.8
Focus: 1 m to ∞

ISO range:

Video: 100–12800 (auto)
A pho­to: 100‑1600 (auto)

Dig­i­tal zoom:

32 × mul­ti­ple

Max. image size:

8000×6000

Pho­to modes:

Inter­val: 2/3/5/7/10/15/20/30/60s
Panora­ma: Sphere

Video shoot­ing modes:

4K Ultra HD: 3840 × 2160 at 30fps
FHD: 1920×1080@30fps

Pho­to for­mat:

JPEG

Video for­mat:

MP4

suspension

Mechan­i­cal range of rota­tion angles:

Incline: ‑135° to 45°
Turn: ‑100° to 100°

Oper­at­ing range of rota­tion angles:

Incline: ‑90° to 30°
Turn: ‑75° to 75°

Sta­bi­liza­tion:

3‑axis mechan­i­cal (tilt, roll, pan)

Max. con­trol speed:

120°/s

Angu­lar vibra­tion range:

±0.005°

Sensory system

Obsta­cle recog­ni­tion direc­tions:

Left/Right, Top/Bottom, Front/Rear

Front sen­sors:

Rear sen­sors:

Upper sen­sors:

Accu­rate mea­sure­ment range: 0.1–8m

Low­er sen­sors:

Side sen­sors:

Work­ing con­di­tions:

Intelligent flight battery

Type of:

Lithi­um Poly­mer 4S

Capac­i­ty:

3850mAh

Volt­age:

15.4v

Max. charg­ing volt­age:

17.6V

Pow­er:

59.29Wh

Net weight:

297gr

Charg­ing tem­per­a­ture range:

+5℃ to +40℃

Max. charg­ing pow­er:

80W

Charg­ing time:

90 min

Ways to acti­vate bat­tery self-heat­ing:

Manual/Automatic

Tem­per­a­ture range for self-heat­ing:

-10℃ to +6℃

Max. self-heat­ing time:

500s

Max. heat­ing pow­er:

55W

Oper­at­ing range tem­per­a­tures:

-10℃ to +40℃

Remote Control

Oper­at­ing fre­quen­cy range:

2.400–2.483GHz
5.725–5.850GHz

Max. sig­nal trans­mis­sion dis­tance:

Trans­mit­ter pow­er (EIRP):

Mem­o­ry:

ROM 16GB + microSD for expan­sion

Video out­put port:

HDMI port

Built-in bat­tery:

Work­ing Current/Voltage:

1800mA/3.83V

Bat­tery life:

from built-in bat­tery approx. 2.5 h

Oper­at­ing tem­per­a­ture range:

-20° to +40℃

Remote con­trol dimen­sions (L × W × H):

Intel­li­gent flight bat­tery:

main con­nec­tion: 17.6V 3.41A or 17.0V 3.53A USB: 5.0V 2.0A

RTK module

Dimen­sions:

69×69×59mm

Port type:

micro USB port

Posi­tion­ing Accu­ra­cy:

RTK FIX
1 cm + 1 ppm (hor­i­zon­tal)
1.5 cm + 1 ppm (ver­ti­cal)

M2EA Spotlight

Dimen­sions:

68×60×41mm

Port type:

USB Micro‑B

Work­ing range:

30m

Max. pow­er:

26W

Illu­mi­na­tion:

FOV 17°, Max: 11lux, 30m straight

M2EA Speaker

Dimen­sions:

68×55×65mm

Port type:

USB Micro‑B

Max. pow­er:

10W

Deci­bel:

100dB at 1m

Bitrate:

16 kbps

M2EA Beacon

Dimen­sions:

68×40×27.8mm

Port type:

USB Micro‑B

Pow­er:

1.6W

Con­trolled range:

5000m

Inten­si­ty:

Min. angle: 55cd
Light inten­si­ty: 157cd

SD cards

Sup­port­ed SD cards:

Sup­ports microSD card up to 128GB with UHS‑I speed rat­ing of 3.

Other

Notes:

Appearance

hybrid camera

It is a key com­po­nent includ­ed in the main pack­age of improve­ments for the com­mer­cial ver­sion of the portable drone. The devel­op­er equipped the M2EA with a new even more pow­er­ful hybrid cam­era, built on a tan­dem of two sen­sors for real­iz­ing simul­ta­ne­ous ther­mal and high-res­o­lu­tion visu­al shoot­ing.

Thermal photography

The built-in high-res­o­lu­tion ther­mal matrix sup­port­ing point and vol­ume tem­per­a­ture mea­sure­ment meth­ods will allow cor­po­rate users to quick­ly deter­mine the cur­rent state of objects and make informed deci­sions based on the data obtained on site. In the arse­nal of the ther­mal cham­ber: max. res­o­lu­tion: 640 × 512 at 30Hz; tem­per­a­ture mea­sure­ment accu­ra­cy ±2°C; 16x dig­i­tal zoom.

Visual shooting

The visu­al cam­era has received no less pow­er­ful poten­tial, allow­ing you to seri­ous­ly expand the effi­cien­cy of the drone. Unlike its pre­de­ces­sor, it is built on a 48MP 1/2‑inch CMOS matrix. Enables 4K/FHD video record­ing at 30fps with 32-card dig­i­tal zoom capa­bil­i­ty (Loss­less zoom: 4x).

The devel­op­er notes that 4x loss­less zoom is only avail­able for FHD mode.

Imaging modes

To ensure max­i­mum per­for­mance, the oper­a­tor can dis­play the received video image on the main screen of the con­trol equip­ment in three modes: Ther­mal / Visu­al / Ther­mal + Visu­al.

RTK module

To achieve the most accu­rate posi­tion­ing, the M2EA sys­tem can be retro­fit­ted with an RTK mod­ule. RTK tan­dem will allow cor­po­rate users to cre­ate up to 240 way­points for autonomous detailed inspec­tions regard­less of the com­plex­i­ty of the envi­ron­ment.

The RTK mod­ule is not includ­ed in the stan­dard pay­load pack­age and must be pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly.

OcuSync 2.0

The sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of Ocu­Sync dig­i­tal video trans­mis­sion tech­nol­o­gy allows you to switch between 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz fre­quen­cies based on the lev­el of chan­nel con­ges­tion. Pro­vides more inter­fer­ence-resis­tant con­nec­tion, FPV dis­tance up to 10km, video stream qual­i­ty up to 1080p, down­load speed 40Mbps and best laten­cy up to 120ms.

DJI Smart Controller

Anoth­er equal­ly impor­tant inno­va­tion that came to the com­mer­cial series of Enter­prise drones. Portable mul­ti­func­tion­al con­trol equip­ment with a built-in ultra-bright 5.5‑inch 1080p dis­play that pro­vides a clear dis­play of infor­ma­tion dis­played even in direct sun­light. In addi­tion to the pre-installed DJI Pilot appli­ca­tion, it also sup­ports third-par­ty appli­ca­tions for indi­vid­ual tasks. Comes with the stan­dard kit.

Max. flexibility in operation

Light­weight and portable, the M2EA can be launched in less than a minute. To achieve max­i­mum effi­cien­cy when per­form­ing flight mis­sions, the devel­op­er increased the speed of ascent and descent.

Food

The pow­er sup­ply of the Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced has remained unchanged from its pre­de­ces­sors. The drone is equipped with an intel­li­gent four-cell (15.4V) lithi­um-poly­mer bat­tery with a capac­i­ty of 3850mAh 59.29Wh. Pro­vides a max­i­mum flight time of 31 min­utes (the result was obtained in calm, at a con­stant hor­i­zon­tal flight speed of 25 km/h). Charg­ing time is approx­i­mate­ly 90 min­utes.

Heating

Tra­di­tion­al­ly for a com­mer­cial series of drones, the pow­er has received a self-heat­ing func­tion. It can be acti­vat­ed both auto­mat­i­cal­ly and man­u­al­ly when the ambi­ent tem­per­a­ture is between ‑10°C and +6°C and the cur­rent bat­tery lev­el is above 50%. To acti­vate the self-heat­ing func­tion of the switched off bat­tery, it is nec­es­sary to press and hold the bat­tery pow­er but­ton for 5 sec­onds. If the bat­tery is installed in the drone and turned on, the func­tion will be acti­vat­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly.

Payload

Based on the pos­si­ble appli­ca­tions of the drone, the devel­op­er stan­dard­ly equips the Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced with three pay­load options:

1. M2E Spot­light — dou­ble spot­light with a bright­ness of 2400 lumens. Imple­ment­ed for mis­sions in low vis­i­bil­i­ty con­di­tions. Spot­light is indis­pens­able in search and res­cue, as well as in inspec­tion.
2. M2E Speak­er — loud­speak­er with a max­i­mum sound pres­sure lev­el of 100dB (at a dis­tance of 1m). Allows the pilot to play voice mes­sages when nec­es­sary in order to main­tain direct com­mu­ni­ca­tion with peo­ple in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty of the drone. It can work in two modes: 1. Play­back of voice mes­sages (up to 10 voice mes­sages) pre­vi­ous­ly record­ed using the DJI Pilot mobile appli­ca­tion. 2. Trans­mis­sion of voice mes­sages in real time. Indis­pens­able dur­ing res­cue oper­a­tions and emer­gen­cies.
3. M2E Bea­con — Designed to meet US Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) stan­dards. The main fea­ture of the Bea­con is a bright flash­ing strobe vis­i­ble at a dis­tance of 4.8 km. Pro­vides addi­tion­al air­space aware­ness for oth­er pilots fly­ing near­by, allow­ing for safer mis­sions in low light or at night.

The RTK mod­ule is not includ­ed in the stan­dard pay­load pack­age and must be pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly.

*Mount­ing place for a pay­load inter­faced with the drone via a micro USB port and two mount­ing screws.

DJI AirSense

DJI AirSense is a tech­nol­o­gy that pro­vides an addi­tion­al lev­el of safe­ty when pilot­ing in crowd­ed air­space or in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty of com­plex mis­sions such as fire sup­pres­sion, dis­as­ter recov­ery, infra­struc­ture mon­i­tor­ing. At the heart of the AirSense sys­tem is a built-in receiv­er that allows you to receive real-time alerts from near­by air­craft about their cur­rent loca­tion via ADS‑B sig­nals *. All received data is reflect­ed on the built-in dis­play of the con­trol equip­ment through the DJI Pilot mobile appli­ca­tion.

*ADS‑B (Auto­mat­ic depen­dent sur­veil­lance-broad­cast) or ADS‑B (auto­mat­ic depen­dent sur­veil­lance-broad­cast) is a tech­nol­o­gy that allows both cock­pit pilots and air traf­fic con­trollers to observe air­craft move­ments with greater accu­ra­cy than pre­vi­ous­ly avail­able and receive aero­nau­ti­cal data.

APAS

APAS (Advanced Pilot Assis­tance Sys­tem) is the result of DJI’s exten­sive research to cal­cu­late the opti­mal flight path. The APAS pilot assis­tance sys­tem auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjusts the tra­jec­to­ry of fly­ing around obsta­cles encoun­tered in the path of the drone, there­by ensur­ing ease of use of the UAV and max­i­mum safe­ty. APAS cre­ates a route in real time, which allows the drone to plan in advance pos­si­ble flight paths.

Password protection

The “Pass­word pro­tec­tion” func­tion allows you to exclude unau­tho­rized access to the drone and the built-in stor­age, the capac­i­ty of which is 24GB. When the func­tion is enabled, pass­word authen­ti­ca­tion will be per­formed every time the air­craft is acti­vat­ed, the con­trol equip­ment is paired with the air­craft, and when the built-in stor­age data is accessed via a PC. All data remains pro­tect­ed even if the drone is phys­i­cal­ly dam­aged.

In addi­tion, M2EA users with high data secu­ri­ty require­ments can take advan­tage of DJI’s Local Data Mode. Acti­vat­ing the mode stops any com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the paired mobile device and the Inter­net, thus pro­vid­ing addi­tion­al secu­ri­ty guar­an­tees for oper­a­tors involved in crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture, gov­ern­ment projects, or oth­er more com­plex tasks.

GPS timestamping

GPS time­stamp­ing is a func­tion that fix­es the time, date and loca­tion of each record­ed image (GPS coor­di­nates), there­by guar­an­tee­ing the inde­pen­dent reli­a­bil­i­ty of the received data, which can lat­er be used in legal pro­ceed­ings.

Discreet mode

“Invis­i­ble” mode, which turns off all the on-board illu­mi­na­tion of the drone for the imple­men­ta­tion of mis­sions that require unno­ticed move­ment, espe­cial­ly at night.

DJI Pilot

A time-test­ed mobile appli­ca­tion devel­oped specif­i­cal­ly for cor­po­rate users, which allows you to max­i­mize the poten­tial of the com­mer­cial ver­sion of the drone laid down by the man­u­fac­tur­er. Pre­set by default in DJI Smart Con­troller soft­ware.

Mobile SDK

With a wide range of third-par­ty mobile appli­ca­tions, cor­po­rate users can unleash the full poten­tial of the drone and thus find solu­tions for spe­cif­ic tasks. The Mobile SDK enables per­son­al­ized mobile app devel­op­ment for the Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced.

Price and availability

The new DJI Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced is cur­rent­ly avail­able for pre-order. Deliv­er­ies will begin in the first quar­ter of 2021. Price: $6240. To pur­chase, please con­tact your local DJI Enter­prise part­ners.

FAQ

Drone

Q. What is the dif­fer­ence between M2E Advanced and M2E Dual?
A. M2EA is opti­mized for rapid deploy­ment in a vari­ety of indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions. The ther­mal res­o­lu­tion has been improved to 640×512 pix­els, and the visu­al cam­era res­o­lu­tion is 4 times bet­ter than the M2E Dual. Also, an RTK mod­ule has been added and flight char­ac­ter­is­tics and way­point flight mode have been opti­mized.

Q. Is the M2EA water­proof?
Oh no. Please do not fly in rainy/snowy weath­er.

Q. Is there an opti­cal zoom on the M2EA visu­al cam­era?
Oh no. The M2EA visu­al cam­era sup­ports 32x dig­i­tal zoom.

Q. Does M2EA sup­port chang­ing cam­eras? Can I change the cam­era to a cam­era from M2E series drones?
A. Cam­era inter­change­abil­i­ty is not cur­rent­ly sup­port­ed.

Q. Will the ther­mal cam­era take pic­tures when the M2EA is doing an auto­mat­ic way­point, map­ping mis­sion, or 3D mis­sion (Oblique Mis­sion)?
Oh yeah. Dur­ing these mis­sions, two types of images (visu­al and ther­mal) will be stored on the SD card.

Control equipment

Q. Can the remote con­troller from Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise or Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Dual be used with Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced (M2EA)?
A. The DJI Smart Con­troller is com­pat­i­ble with all three mod­els. But the remote con­trol from M2E/M2ED is not sup­port­ed by M2EA.

Software

Q. What appli­ca­tion is M2EA com­pat­i­ble with?
A. DJI Pilot (Android ver­sion) and third-par­ty apps devel­oped using the DJI MSDK.

Q. Can I mea­sure tem­per­a­ture on ther­mal images tak­en with M2EA in post-pro­cess­ing?
Oh yeah. More infor­ma­tion about post-pro­cess­ing soft­ware will be com­ing soon.

Q. How many way­points can I set in a mis­sion?
A. Thanks to the way­point flight mode opti­miza­tion, you can set up to 240 way­points per mis­sion.

Q. Will M2EA sup­port the iOS ver­sion of DJI Pilot?
Oh no.

Q. Can I add a time stamp water­mark to pho­tos tak­en by M2EA?
A. Yes, this is only sup­port­ed on vis­i­ble light pho­tographs.

Q. How do I ini­ti­ate a firmware update on the M2EA?
A. 1. Con­nect to a com­put­er and use DJI Assis­tant 2 for Mav­ic to update the firmware for the air­craft and remote con­troller; 2. Launch updates in the DJI Pilot app.

Q. Does FlightHub sup­port M2EA?
Oh no.

Q. Can I use M2EA for aer­i­al pho­tog­ra­phy?
A. The M2EA was not specif­i­cal­ly designed to meet the accu­ra­cy require­ments of aer­i­al pho­tog­ra­phy, but you can use vis­i­ble light or infrared cam­eras to cap­ture images in map­ping mis­sions in the DJI Pilot app.

Accessories

Q. Which Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Series acces­sories are com­pat­i­ble with the M2EA?
A. Flight case, ship­ping bag, speak­er, spot­light, bea­con, extend­ed port cov­er, bat­ter­ies, pro­pellers, charg­ers and charg­ing sta­tion.

Q. Does the M2EA fit into a flight case with the RTK mod­ule installed?
Oh yeah.

Q. Is the RTK M2EA mod­ule com­pat­i­ble with Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise and Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Dual?
A. The RTK mod­ule is only com­pat­i­ble with M2EA and does not sup­port use with M2E or M2ED.

Q. Is PPK sup­port­ed on M2EA?
Oh no.

Q. Can the M2EA be used with the D‑RTK 2 mobile sta­tion from the Phan­tom 4 RTK or from the Matrice series?
A. M2EA is not cur­rent­ly com­pat­i­ble with the D‑RTK 2 mobile sta­tion. Please con­nect to the NTRIP net­work.

Video

Com­par­a­tive review DJI Mav­ic 2 Enter­prise Advanced vs Autel EVO 2 Dual.