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SYNNEX Japan has signed a distributor agreement with VFR and announced that it will start accepting reservations from December 7, 2021 for inventory sales of ACSL's domestic industrial drone "SOTEN". In addition to SOTEN, companies considering introduction will be provided with a dedicated virtual trainer system and a drone pilot training program using toy drones through the company's dealers.
By mounting a camera on "SOTEN", it can be used for infrastructure inspection, etc.As the use of industrial drones increases in the inspection and logistics scenes, government agencies are moving to recommend domestic drones. In addition, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is aiming to realize unassisted out-of-sight flight (level 4) in the manned area in 2022 (Public-Private Council for Environmental Improvement for Small Unmanned Aircraft "Toward the Industrial Revolution in the Sky" Roadmap 2021 "). In order to respond immediately to growing needs, it is necessary to sell the standard model industrial drone in stock instead of selling it by contract production, which is common in domestic industrial drones.
SOTEN has been selected for the "Safe and Secure Drone Fundamental Technology Development" project, which is openly recruited by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), with the aim of developing high-performance, high-security compact drones. completed. It is a drone that has been mass-produced by utilizing the results of the development support by the Japanese government.
▼ SOTEN (ACSL) https://product.acsl.co.jp/product/post-369/
Examples of utilization scenes include infrastructure inspections and site confirmation / exploration in the event of a disaster. The image shows the drone during the disaster investigation (example conducted by PF2).The virtual trainer system dedicated to SOTEN was jointly developed by three companies, Rikei, ACSL, and VFR. It reproduces disaster sites that are difficult to train in reality in virtual space, and raises drone maneuvering skills in it. Can be done.
The drone pilot training program is a hybrid online and offline plan for corporate enterprises. Half of the programs that have been conducted in the field for four days will be available online. The course schedule is the toy drone "VFRee-T01" that will be sent in advance for the first two days, and training and lectures will be conducted according to the manual, and for the second half two days, practical training will be conducted at a base location where drone operation in cooperation with VFR is possible. To carry out.