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Interviewer:
A bit of midnight oil and forgotten years on 14942AY, a wide crowd still pumping out here. The Henty Machinery Field Days is a lot of good people here as the jingle says and of course you can get your tickets for tomorrow at hmfd.com.au. We're still here with Nick Smith from dronesforhire.com.au. Now you've got a couple of local places where you're actually setting up some of these drones right now.
Nick Smith:
Yeah we do. We have some customers, a lot of interest coming from the Aubrey -Rodonga area and we have customers operating in Bethanga, Tulangata, Gandharing and some of those areas surrounding those places as well.
Interviewer:
A couple of beautiful locations. Now tell us about your setup day if we're interested in some of these amazing drones.
Nick Smith:
Yeah sure so with every spray drone that we supply we include a full setup day with customers and that enables or ensures that they're using it confidently and so on the setup day we include preparation for spraying, helping to plot out their missions on their particular piece of land so we can understand by visiting their property we can understand their country and their terrain and help guide them about the best way to use the spray drone for each section of their property. So we include a full setup day and we also do mapping on that day as well so we can map out sections of their property and focus on the highest priority areas that the customers have for spraying weeds that are otherwise hard to reach.
Interviewer:
Fantastic you keep talking about I guess these hard to get to areas and I mean it's why these drones are the best option instead of your quad bikes and all those sorts of things that can be quite dangerous.
Nick Smith:
Yeah 100% so spray drones have really become famous for spraying in areas that are hard to access so very steep terrain gullies, rocky areas you know traditionally the farmers have always used things like quick sprays but they can be very hard work because you're walking up and down hills all day. Quad bikes can be quite dangerous because obviously when it gets steep they can roll over and be a hazard. and helicopter operators are good, but they have less precision and accuracy and they're often booked out because everyone wants to book them at the same time. So spray drones have very effectively resolved those problems and offered what we think is a more optimal solution for spraying difficult access areas.
Interviewer:
Absolutely. Tell us a little bit about the spot spraying as well.
Nick Smith:
Yeah, so if you have, say for example, Blackberry on steep terrain, you're not necessarily or quite often not using the drone in a way you would fly an RC car or an RC helicopter, so you would actually map the area first and then draw circles around where the Blackberry is and then the spray drone will go off and only spray those circled areas automatically on its own.
Interviewer:
That's fantastic, isn't it?
Nick Smith:
Yeah, so it's not manually flying the drone when you're doing spray drone work.
Interviewer:
Stuff way over my head, but it might not be, of course, over some of the farmers in this region who can come out and find a little bit more about dronesforhire.com.au and grab one of these amazing sprays. In terms of inquiries or anything like that, Nick... the best place to grab you is of course at the website.
Nick Smith:
Yeah, yeah, that's right. So it's dronesforhire.com.au. We're the largest drone site in Australia. We've been operating for 10 years and we focus on agricultural drones. And yeah, if you're at the Henty Field Days, come and have a look at our stand. Otherwise have a look at the website and I'm very happy to chat with anyone who's got country like that and has a problem spraying their weeds.
Interviewer:
Nick Smith, thank you very much for joining us. I feel like I'm a drone expert now after the last hour or so. Thanks for joining us on 2AY and enjoy the rest of the Henty Machinery Field Days. Thanks very much, Panda.
From a distance it looks like almost any other drone
But a larger black panel on a prototype developed by an Auckland startup makes this one a little different, in a big way.
"We're one of the few companies in the world to deliver this technology for light-based energy transmission," said Aquila CEO and co-founder William Jeremijenko.
It's light that is invisible to the eye.
But they're using it to charge the drone while it flies, opening the doors for a raft of possibilities in the future.
"You can imagine having this on agricultural sites or mining sites where you got a love moving platforms." Jeremijenko told 1News
"They need an energy source and you can have that energy supplied continuously by beams of light"
The ultimate goal. as he puts it, is to make an "internet of energy" - a network of satellites to send power from where it's generated to where it's needed.
Eventually they hope to send power to electric planes flying internationally.
"So with this directed energy capability you can all of a sudden create these networks that can serve any imaginable application." Jeremijenko said.
And the hope is it can be done within a decade, helping along by AUD $3 million recently secured in funding.
Making it large-scale and safe
"The reason why no-one has done this yet is because it is just that hard." fellow co-founder Nelson Smith told 1News
"There are dozens of really difficult technical problems that have only recently become fundamentally soveable."
A lot of people have tried, Smith said.
their solution involves a "lighthouse" module that can direct a beam of light to a receiver, in this case on the prototype drone.
The receiver is in effect a specialised solar panel that can work with the specialised light.
It can deliver more than what solar can.
The "Lighthouse" module on the drone
"So think of autonomous aerial vehicles, or boats, or submarines just staying forever, that's the goal" Smith said.
"The biggest reasons we can't transition to renewables is electrical propulsion just isn't good enough yet"
"However if we can charge things mid-flight suddenly all those barriers just evaporate"
The team is working to make safety a key part of the whole design.
"For me to put it in front of people , it has to be safe... we have to be so confident that it's not even going to hurt a bird, let alone a person." said Smith "And it's working beautifully so far"
Potential game changer
The drone in flight
Victoria University sustainable energy professor Alan Brent told 1News a number of companies are working on the technology.
"It's definitely a potential game changer in the power", he said.
He said serving communities in difficult terrain in difficult times could be key winners.
"Definitely for communities in topography that's very difficult to install and maintain lines if we have disasters, or earthquakes, or cyclone events - they won't disrupted using this kind of technology" he said.
Cushla McGoverin from the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies calls it "solar power, amped up"
"If you don't have to bring your drone down to charge it every few hours? The potential advantage of that is massive." She said.
"In events like disaster events when you're trying to find things, agriculture is starting to use drones - it's just massivem the potential applications"
Hey guys,
We had perfect weather for our Maryborough QLD demo in March 2023. And a fantastic site that has cotton, cane and pineapple plantations. We demonstrated the T40 over cane , showing that there is no yield loss when using it – no compaction or damage to the tops of the cane that you get with boom sprayers. Guests could also see the strong penetration into the cane thanks to the T40’s large coaxial rotors pushing the droplets down and circulating them around inside the cane for creating exceptional efficiency.
We also demonstrated targeted spot spraying (for weeds such as Giant Rats Tail) and also manual and manual plus modes for spraying the edges of the nearby dam.
And we demonstrated the Mavic 3 Multispectral, Mavic 3 Thermal, and had the T10 there and discussed its suitability for spraying isolated gullies and small patches of weed.
Guests were able to see a good run down of Terra too thanks to the large LED screen and an hdmi out from the RC and the laptop.
Thanks to all for a great day out.
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Here is a quick spec comparison between the DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral and DJI Phantom 4 Multispectral.
For sure, it is definitely an upgrade in almost all aspects.
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| DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral | DJI Phantom 4 Multispectral | |
| Release | 2022 | 2019 |
| Price in AU$ | $7800 | $7000 |
| Take-off Weight | 951g; 1,050g (max take-off weight) | 1,487g |
| Foldable | Yes | No |
| RGB Camera | 4/3 CMOS; 20MP | 1/2.9" CMOS; 2MP |
| Multispectral Camera | 4 Bands: Green, Red, Red Edge, Near Infrared; 1/2.8" CMOS; Each camera, 5MP: | 5 Bands: Green, Red, Red Edge, Near Infrared, Blue; 1/2.9" CMOS; Each camera, 2MP |
| Max Flight Time | 43 mins | 27 mins |
| Operating Temperature | -10°C to 40°C | 0°C to 40°C |
| Transmission Distance (CE) | DJI O3 Enterprise; 8km | DJI OcuSync; 5km |
| Controller | DJI RC Pro Enterprise smart controller with built-in screen | P4 SDK Remote Controller. No built-in screen: Additional smart device is required. |
| Modular | Yes | No |
| Multispectral Camera Bands | Four bands: Green (G): 560 ± 16 nm; Red (R): 650 ± 16 nm; Red Edge (RE): 730 ± 16 nm; Near infrared (NIR): 860 ± 26 nm; | Five bands: Green (G): 560 nm ± 16 nm; Red (R): 650 nm ± 16 nm; Red Edge (RE): 730 nm ± 16 nm; Near-infrared (NIR): 840 nm ± 26 nm Blue (B): 450 nm ± 16 nm |
| Image Sensor | 1/2.8" CMOS; Effective pixels: 5MP | 1/2.9” CMOS; Effective pixels 2.08MP |
| Lens | FOV: 73.91° (61.2° x 48.10°) Equivalent focal length: 25 mm Aperture: f/2.0 Focus: Fixed Focus | FOV (Field of View): 62.7° Focal Length: 5.74 mm (35 mm format equivalent: 40 mm), autofocus set at ∞ Aperture: f/2.2 |
| Gain Range | 1x-32x | 1x-8x |
| Shutter Speed | Electronic Shutter: 1/30~1/12800 s | Electronic Global Shutter: 1/100 - 1/10000 s |
| Max Image Size | 2592 x 1944 | 1600 x 1300 |
| Image Format | TIFF | TIFF |
| Video Format | MP4 (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264) | N/A |
| Video Resolution | H.264 FHD: 1920 x 1080@30fps Video content: NDVI/GNDVI/NDRE | N/A |
| Max Video Bitrate | Stream: 60 Mbps | N/A |
| mage Sensor | 4/3 CMOS; Effective Pixels: 20MP | 1/2.9" CMOS; Effective Pixels: 2.08MP |
| Lens | FOV: 84° Equivalent focal length: 24 mm Aperture: f/2.8 to f/11 Focus: 1 m to ∞ | FOV: 62.7° Focal Length: 5.74 mm (35 mm format equivalent: 40 mm), autofocus set at ∞ Aperture: f/2.2 |
| ISO Range | 100-6400 | 200 - 800 |
| Shutter Speed | Electronic shutter: 8-1/8000 s Mechanical shutter: 8-1/2000 s | Electronic Global Shutter: 1/100 - 1/20000s |
| Max Image Size | 5280 x 3956 | 1600 x 1300 |
| Image Format (Visual) | JPEG/DNG (RAW) | JPEG |
| Video Resolution | H.264: 4K: 3840×2160@30fps FHD: 1920×1080@30fps | N/A |
| Max Video Bitrate | 4K: 130Mbps FHD: 70Mbps | N/A |
| Video Format | MP4 (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264) | N/A |
| Flight Time | 43 minutes | 27 minutes |
| Max Speed | 33.5 mph (Normal Mode); Flying forward: 46.9 mph, flying sideways: 44.7 mph, flying backwards: 42.5 mph (Sport mode) | 31 mph (P-mode); 36 mph (58 kph) (A-mode) |
| Ascent Speed | 6 m/s (Normal Mode) 8 m/s (Sport Mode) | 6 m/s (automatic flight); |
| Descent Speed | 6 m/s (Normal Mode) 6 m/s (Sport Mode) | 3 m/s |
| Operating Temperature | -10°C to 40°C | 0°C to 40°C |
| Transmission System | DJI O3 Enterprise | DJI OcuSync |
| Transmission Distance (CE) | 8km | 5km |
This is our final T30-centric spray drone demo day. We have just started shipping T40’s and expect to be focussing more on it for future demos. We used the DJI Agras T30, Phantom 4 RTK, and RTK mobile station, and Terra Ag. software.
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In this demo, we show the T30 flying from point to point, simulating automated spot spraying of individual blackberry clumps. At each point, the T30 does a 360-degree yaw (pirouette), in order to saturate each blackberry clump. Using the settings in the controller, Oscar has set how many liters of liquid to spray at each point, which the T30 executes based on yaw speed and flow rate.
Another successful spray drone demo at the Murrumbateman Field Days, NSW 2582.
Oscar and Nick had a very enjoyable couple of days showcasing spray drones at Murrumbateman. Plenty of interested growers who simply can't get their spray booms across the saturated ground. The weather on the 2 days was perfect and the turnout was amazing - this was the first year the show has been back on since covid.
Great to meet local families and discuss where drone technology is at the moment.
