Matrice 200: Professional Drone From DJI

On Feb­ru­ary 21, 2019, DJI Inno­va­tions announced the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of Matrice 200 series drones.

Introduction

The pro­fes­sion­al Matrice 200 was unveiled by DJI Inno­va­tions at the Mobile World Con­gress in Barcelona in ear­ly 2017. The drone is designed to per­form pro­fes­sion­al tasks, such as inspec­tion of ener­gy facil­i­ties (pow­er lines, wind tur­bines, oil plat­forms), check­ing the crit­i­cal con­di­tion of infra­struc­ture (bridges, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions tow­ers), pub­lic safe­ty (search and res­cue, fire haz­ard mon­i­tor­ing).

Drone DJI Matrice 200 received the fol­low­ing dimen­sions: 71.6 × 22 × 23.6 cm, with a weight of only 3.80 kg.

The lineup

Matrice 200 is offered in three series:

1. M200 — with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of hang­ing one cam­era from the bot­tom of the drone
2. M210 – with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of hang­ing up to 2 cam­eras from below and one from above
3. M210 RTK — RTK (Real Time Kine­mat­ics) mod­ules are added, which sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve the posi­tion­ing of the drone with an accu­ra­cy of one cen­time­ter.

Appearance

Foldable design and protection

The M200 is fold­able for ease of trans­port and is IP43 ingress pro­tect­ed (pro­tect­ed against exter­nal sol­id objects up to 1mm in diam­e­ter and against water in the form of rain where spray falls ver­ti­cal­ly or at an angle up to 60° to the ver­ti­cal).

Sensors

The drone is equipped with more than 20 sen­sors, some of which dupli­cate each oth­er in order to increase the reli­a­bil­i­ty and sta­bil­i­ty of the drone. Equipped with opti­cal vision sys­tems on the front and sides of the drone, as well as on top, in the form of an infrared sen­sor to facil­i­tate flights under bridges or com­plex struc­tures.

Food

I got two bat­ter­ies work­ing in series and pro­vid­ing a flight dura­tion of up to 38 min­utes depend­ing on the pay­load and bat­tery type (6S 4280mAh and option­al 7760mAh LiPo will be offered).

cameras

On the front of the drone is a head­ing FPV cam­era (as on the Inspire 2), which allows you to sep­a­rate the duties of the oper­a­tor and pilot. For shoot­ing, the M200 is equipped with well-known cam­eras: the Zen­muse X4S and X5S, the Zen­muse XT2 ther­mal cam­era devel­oped by FLIR, and the Zen­muse Z30 cam­era with a 30x opti­cal zoom.

Additional features

• All series received the DJI AirSense func­tion, which works on ADS‑B type trans­ceivers. This transpon­der sig­nal receiv­ing sys­tem pro­vides real-time infor­ma­tion exchange (cur­rent posi­tion, air­speed, alti­tude, etc.) with both air traf­fic con­trol sys­tems and oth­er air­craft.
• The M200 is com­pat­i­ble with the DJI GO 4/DJI Pilot/DJI GS GO apps. DJI Pilot, in turn, can work with DJI FlightHub (data exchange func­tion via cloud tech­nolo­gies from DJI) — allows real-time shar­ing (for per­son­nel or con­trol cen­ters, etc.) to var­i­ous types of infor­ma­tion received from UAVs. Allows every­one to see the video feed from the drone’s cam­eras, where the drone is locat­ed, con­trol its sta­tus, track the flight direc­tion, make flight cor­rec­tions and con­trol the cam­eras on board.
• The video stream from the drone’s cam­eras is trans­mit­ted in real time in FHD res­o­lu­tion of 1920 × 1080 pix­els at a dis­tance of up to 7 km via the Light­bridge 2 video link.

Price

All three DJI Matrice 200 series are avail­able for order on the man­u­fac­tur­er’s web­site. There are no cur­rent prices, since each solu­tion is indi­vid­ual and is pre­pared based on the pref­er­ences of the client.

On Feb­ru­ary 21, 2019, DJI Inno­va­tions announced the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of Matrice 200 series drones.

A photo

Pho­to with drone DJI Matrice 200.