Yuneec International

Yuneec is a drone developer and manufacturer. Its website says it was founded in 1999 in Hong Kong, has developed professional drones since 2014, and has offices in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. The site presents Yuneec as a company of ATL Drone, and states that it is the world's largest manufacturer of radio-controlled model aircraft (OEM) and that more than one million drones have been sold.

Drones

• H850: built for inspections, surveys, public safety and fawn rescue, with dual IMU, two RTK antennas, two intelligent batteries, and the ability to land safely with five motors running
• H520E: a hexacopter for emergency services, police, fire brigades, inspection and surveying teams, also used in animal rescue and agriculture

Both use a hexacopter design with payloads that can be exchanged in seconds, hot-swappable smart batteries and dual battery redundancy. An H850 charging case charges four H850 batteries and two T-One batteries at once.

Applications

• Mapping and surveying, with payloads for high-resolution pictures or dense point clouds
• Inspection of wind parks, solar farms and bridges, with high-definition and thermal cameras
• Search and rescue, with thermal cameras and delivery of first aid goods
• Agriculture, using a multispectral camera to assess plant health and locate weeds and pests

Company facts

• Founded in 1999 in Hong Kong
• Professional drone development since 2014
• Founding member and largest drone producer in Dronecode, the open-source drone platform
• Repair, service and maintenance centres in Germany and Switzerland
• States that no data is sent to external servers by its platform