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  • 기자명 Jung Hyun Ko
  • Tech & Bio
  • Published 2020.08.28 04:15

[100 Companies in Pangyo, the Silicon Valley in Asia] BluezenDrone, an industrial small unmanned aerial vehicle system solution company

-Positioned as Korea's leading PX4 platform technology development company
-Secures PX4 platform from industrial system drone production to entertainment

According to MOLIT, the global drone market is expected to grow from 7.2 trillion won in 2016 to 43.2 trillion won in 2022, and to 90.3 trillion won in 2026. In Korea, drones are increasing in demand, and they are being used in various areas from the delivery of pages to monitoring natural disasters like forest fires, red tide, and earthquakes, and even public safety and transportation. Also, as the COVID-19 pandemic is continuing for a longer period, drones are being brought up as a perfect means of non-face-to-face businesses. The core competitiveness to gain an advantage in the drone market is system technology. In Korea, BluezenDrone, a company specializing in the development of the industrial drone system, is challenging the global market with innovative technology.

BluezenDrone is a member of the large open-source flight stackPX4-based dronecode for commercial use, and it is a PX4 platform technologydevelopment company representing Korea. BluezenDrone, which has establisheditself as a company specializing in industrial drone technology solutions,continues to research and develop unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology, andit is engaged in various drone businesses.

Its business targets are finished industrial dronemanufacturers, drone-based public and commercial service providers, andindustrial drones and drone operators for commercial systems. It is closelycooperating with finished industrial drone manufacturers to develop hardwareand software for special devices such as flight control devices and missioncomputers and various technical solutions for the stability of drone systems,and it is supplying them to finished product manufacturers.

BluezenDrone has actually participated as a system developer inthe development of drones for delivery to islands and mountains of the KoreaPost. It has also participated as the technology solution developer in themission computer development project for disaster drones used for forest firemonitoring and extinguishing and controllers and software development projectfor hydrogen-fueled drones. Through this, BluezenDrone has been building itstechnological power as a specialist in industrial system drone, unmanned aerialvehicle system parts/solutions, drone development test equipment, andentertainment drone system.

BluezenDrone is developing and supplying customized industrialsystem drones with reliability and safety to achieve the mission of unmannedaerial vehicles required in various industrial sites. It is using the optimizedindustrial system drone design and verified industrial system drone reliabilityand safety to support drone control and remote system and industrial siteoperation and maintenance system. The major industrial system drones suppliedby BluezenDrone are SD-SX8, a high-wind-resistant, high-moving system drone,SD-MH6 and SD-MX4t, all-weather long-term endurance-type system drones, and SD-MH6t, all-weather multi-task system drone.

With this, BluezenDrone supplies its own core parts like LTEintegrated communication modules for drones and power redundancy andintelligent power management module to companies that manufacture finishedproducts. It has acquired FCC (KC certification R-REM-BZD-pixhawkR)certification and secured the performance required by the industrial system,building the most complete system drones required in the industrial field.  BluezenDrone is also running an industrialdrone parts online shop (www.sysdronemall.com) for faster customer service tobetter accommodate customer needs.

Also, BluezenDrone is developing and supplying hardware testequipment and software verification equipment for system drone development suchas indoor flight tester, motor comprehensive tester, integrated drone systememulator, and battery performance tester for integrated drones. Also, toprovide a new paradigm in the drone industry market, it is supplying variousevents and experience-based entertainment game systems like drone clay shootinggame system, drone survival game system, and drone carnival game system.

BluezenDrone is a company that was spun off in 2018 from Bluezenestablished in 2011. It aims to develop and supply core parts of the industrialdrone system (flight control system, communication system, safety/reliabilityenhancement device, etc.). It has recorded 1.1 billion won in sales as of 2019,and it is currently participating in a number of technology developmentprojects with private companies as well as national R&D projects to lay thefoundation for the drone industry.

As the mother company Bluezen started its business in Pangyo, itwas natural for BluezenDrone to be based in Pangyo as well. BluezenDrone CEOEom Seong-yong said, "What's great about Pangyo Techno Valley is thatthere are many IT companies with excellent technology and there are many goodhuman resources as well. It is the perfect place to open up a business in thesense that it has great accessibility to Seoul."

“We want to attract investment in additional development andmarketing manpower to fully activate the communication-related servicebusiness,” said Eom. On the mid-to-long-term strategy and business goals, hesaid, “We would like to increase the market share of core parts and developvarious additional service businesses by technology advancement. By applying itto the existing telecommunication business, we would like to expand the businessscale.”

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