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DJI Enterprise announcement: the new dual sensor thermal DJI Zenmuse XT2 camera and DJI Skyport SDK adapter – live coverage

DJI Enterprise will make an announcement at 11:15 am PST and we will cover the event live here on DroneDJ.

DJI Enterprise announcement

11:59 am PST – DJI concludes the event with the following message: Before we end the #LiveTweet and share more information on the Zenmuse XT2 and Payload SDK, we invite all industry players to join us at #AirWorks2018 on Oct 30th.

11:56 am PST – DJI M210 drone platform is now more versatile than ever with the Zenmuse XT2 and Payload SDK.

11:54 am PST – DJI just opened up their commercial drone platform to third-party developers.

11:50 am PST – DJI presents examples of companies that have worked on integrating the new DJI Skyport already; Sentera and SlantRange.

11:49 am PST – DJI introduces the DJI Skyport adapter that will allow third-party developers to integrate any tool onto the M200 DJI drone series.

11:47 am PST – DJI introduces a Payload SDK so that other manufacturers and developers can bring their solutions to the sky with DJI drones. Awesome!

11:45 am PST – What would happen if DJI drones were no longer limited by the limited number of payloads that were produced by the Chinese drone-maker?

11:42 am PST – Arnaud Thiercelin, head of Developer Technologies and US R&D at DJI, takes the stage.

11:38 am PST – The Zenmuse XT2 will work on the following DJI drone models; M200, M210, M210 RTK and M600 Pro. DJI Pilot app works today for Android users and for iOS sometime in April.

11:33 am PST – Lei Bennet, Director of Product Strategy and Development at @flir takes the stage!

11:32 am PST – DJI announces a new product as the next step in their long-running relationship with Flir, the new dual sensor thermal camera, the Zenmuse XT2. Watch out Parrot!

11:28 am PST – The drone industry eco-system is already getting filled in with different industry players in the various segments.

11:27 am PST – DJI does more than manufacture drones. The company focusses on creating the foundation for the commercial drone industry by engaging in the drone ecosystem.

11:25 am PST – FAA reported that there were 73,000 commercial UAV pilots in 2017 in the US alone. DJI will work to provide the appropriate tools for these commercial drone pilots.

11:23 am PST – DJI will focus on drone technology that will improve performance, accessibility, affordability, and flexibility to enable drones to become widely adopted.

11:20 am PST – Jan Gasparic, Head of Strategic Partnerships at DJI takes the stage.

11:18 am PST – The event is taking place at the Menlo Park Fire headquarters indicating that DJI enterprise’s solution may have something to do with first aid responders?

Many people have been wondering this morning what time the announcement would be made. Finally, around 1:30 pm EST, DJI Enterprise tweeted that the DJI live-tweet session will start at 11:15am PST.

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Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Main Writer at DroneDJ, where he covers all drone related news and writes product reviews. He also contributes to the other sites in the 9to5Mac group such as; 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, 9to5Toys and Electrek. Haye can be reached at haye@dronedj.com or @hayekesteloo 


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