Russian developer of cargo drones OKB air solutions received a grant to develop devices from the national technology initiative by the sum 244 mill rubles. The grant aims to develop unmanned aerial cargo platform vertical take-off and landing SKYF and launch of small-scale production.
OKB air solutions will have to finalize the drone and its control systems. The system will have to learn to fly around obstacles consistently to fly in various conditions and at various altitudes, given the wind and the roughness of the surface.
SKYF will be adapted for the needs of agriculture. It will appear SKYF in the delivery of goods. It will mainly be designed to operate in Northern conditions. To do this, the drone will be equipped with protection against icing and long-range communication system.
The company plans to sell not the drones themselves, but their flight hours. Thereby it will be possible to lower the threshold of entrance for users. And they will not be sold to the end customer, but to its contractors.
The team is working on a platform product, on the basis of which you can create unmanned aerial vehicles of different modifications to solve various problems. The company can eventually take a serious position in a number of markets - from agriculture to logistics and rainfall stimulation.
To date, the platform SKYF is not comparable in cost and performance of alternatives among unmanned aerial vehicles. The maximum capacity of the drone is up to 250 kg/551funts. At a load of 50 kg UAV can fly a distance of 350km/217.5 miles for 8 hours.
SKYF has a unique aerodynamic design that allows you to separate the functions of lifting and control screws. Due to this, the drone can already use the internal combustion engine energy directly without an expensive electrical circuit of the serial hybrid. This provides the necessary consumer properties of the device, allows to reduce its cost and achieve mass implementation.
- Analysis of the market, including feedback from potential customers, showed that, for example, for the effective solution of logistics tasks requires a range of 200-300 km. At the same time, there is a whole range of tasks where a load capacity of 50 kg is required while in the air for 6-8 hours.
In particular, SKYF can be engaged in the logistics of postal items in remote areas, delivery of medium cargo to ships on the road or on the go, as well as delivery of food, spare parts and measuring equipment to oil and gas and other fields.
The compact size of the platform 5,2x2,2 m, allows it to be transported in a standard shipping container, and pre-flight preparation takes about 10 minutes.
All operations are fully automated, the flight task is protected by cryptographic signature and approved at the Central control center. This prevents the platform from running in potentially hazardous areas and directions.
To date, the platform SKYF is not comparable in cost and performance of alternatives among unmanned aerial vehicles. The maximum capacity of the drone is up to 250 kg/551funts. At a load of 50 kg UAV can fly a distance of 350km/217.5 miles for 8 hours.
SKYF has a unique aerodynamic design that allows you to separate the functions of lifting and control screws. Due to this, the drone can already use the internal combustion engine energy directly without an expensive electrical circuit of the serial hybrid. This provides the necessary consumer properties of the device, allows to reduce its cost and achieve mass implementation.
- Analysis of the market, including feedback from potential customers, showed that, for example, for the effective solution of logistics tasks requires a range of 200-300 km. At the same time, there is a whole range of tasks where a load capacity of 50 kg is required while in the air for 6-8 hours.
The market for cargo drones is large There are already other large companies successfully selling commercial drones. Yamaha has produced 2,400 helicopters-type UAVs for the agricultural market. DJI, a Chinese drone manufacturer with $10b market cap, will build 100 after-sales service centers for drones in agriculture, will be the first platform in the field of unmanned freight logistics, using smart contracts and open to all comers with calculations on their own.
The platform will maintain a register of events taking place with the drone.
Each entry has a specific cost and will depend on the type, frequency and complexity.
Since the number of users and entries in the registry will increase, and tokens have a fixed amount, their cost will increase. SKYFT token will be presented on the exchanges, and its owners will be able to receive a percentage of each entry in the registry.
SKYFchain is an open blockchain platform for keeping registers of all key events that occur with the cargo robot and its interaction in the logistics chain. Each transaction is recorded on the platform. Each record has a cost that depends on the type and frequency and complexity of the transactions and is denominated in the traditional currency. At the same time, all calculations within SKYFchain will be carried out in SKYFT tokens, as required by the logic of the smart contract.
Since the number of participants and the number of transactions in the platform will increase, and the number of tokens is fixed, the cost of the SKYFT token will increase. SKYFT tokens will be freely quoted on major cryptocurrency exchanges. In addition, holders of SKYFT tokens will receive their share of the value of each transaction made within the SKYFchain platform.
Traditional cargo logistics is one of the most difficult industries.
It is highly dependent on the human factor, in the process of transportation used a lot of manual labor.
To further increase its expansion, companies will have to change the freight industry itself.
Further optimize the market of traditional logistics simply nowhere.
Most of the proposed improvements allow to reduce only a few tenths and sometimes hundredths of a percent of spending, or slightly reduce the time it takes for delivery.
It SKYFchain who will bring together all market participants based on the distributed system. This will remove a lot of problems, ranging from the approval of the delivery route for robots, ending with the calculation of insurance and payment.
This approach will not only reduce transaction costs, increase the transparency of logistics schemes and calculations, but also increase the speed and quality of cargo delivery.
Within 5 years ARDN Technology plans to invest over 50 million U.S. dollars for ransom of the market SKYFT tokens that will go on the further development of SKYFchain. The issue of SKYFT tokens corresponds to the international legal regulation of the blockchain to the maximum extent.
Pre-ICO: 01-31.03.2018
ICO: 01.05-15.06.2018
Token: SKYFT
Price: $ 0.065
Total tokens: 1 200 000 000
The purpose of the pre-ICO: $2 million ICO minimum goal: $5 million Final target: $ 30 million Minimum investment: 3000 SKYFT
Bonus
Pre-ICO (51.3 million tokens) + 40% 25 million tokens + 30% 20 million tokens +20% 20 million tokens +10% 20 million tokens +5%
The distribution of tokens:
44% - ICO 15% - development of a network 10% - community development The 9.5% reserve 1.5% - bounty 20% - team
Allocation of funds:
45% - research and development 25% - marketing 24% - operating expenses and corporate development 6% - legal and administrative expenses
Website : https://www.skyfchain.io/
White Paper: https://fpivc.box.com/v/SKYFchainWhitePaper