According to data from the AIRT + DRONERESPONDERS 2021 Public Safety UAS Survey, when asked which of the following brand(s) of UAS does your public safety agency or organization currently operate (check all that apply), 90.36 percent (422 of the 467 respondents) claimed to be using DJI drones as part of their fleet.
FREMONT, CA: The leading drone manufacturer, Da-Jiang Innovations, a company headquartered in Shenzhen, China and known by its popular trade name DJI continues to dominate the public safety Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) category as per new research from the Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), the principal 501(c)3 non-profit organization backing the use of unmanned systems for public safety and disaster response and official home of DRONERESPONDERS.
According to data from the AIRT + DRONERESPONDERS 2021 Public Safety UAS Survey, when asked which of the following brand(s) of UAS does your public safety agency or organization currently operate (check all that apply), 90.36 percent (422 of the 467 respondents) claimed to be using DJI drones as part of their fleet.
When analyzing the statistics in more detail, 92.06 percent of law enforcement UAS programs and 92.47 percent of major city public safety UAS programs (representing a jurisdiction with a population of 500K or more) indicate they use DJI.
Meanwhile, according to AIRT + DRONERESPONDERS study, Autel Robotics, an American business based in Bothell, Washington, and owned by Autel Intelligent Technology, based in Shenzhen, China, has taken over the number two spot. 18.84 percent of public safety UAS projects claim to be using Autel drones in their fleet.
In addition, Autel is used by 21.16 percent of law enforcement drone programs and 21.51 percent of big-city drone systems. Skydio, 11.35 percent, Parrot, 9.85 percent, and FLIR, 9.21 percent, round out the top five drone manufacturer names that public safety UAS programs claim to be using. The law enforcement section shows that Skydio's proportion lowers to 10.05 percent, while Parrots' percentage rises slightly to 10.05 percent. FLIR gains a tenth of a percent to 9.52 percent.
Skydio and Parrot increased to 16.13 percent and 11.83 percent in the major cities data group, while FLIR dropped to 6.45 percent. The AIRT + DRONERESPONDERS 2021 Public Safety UAS Survey was done as a self-selecting survey tool aimed towards public safety UAS programs in the United States and worldwide. During the survey's two-week duration, around 600 public safety groups replied. The survey's results and other data will be disclosed in the coming weeks.
