The Drone in-a-box solution is gaining uprising attention from both the drone industry and the other high-tech industries. Two popular designs are found in the market: the canopy and the sliding cover design, but which one suits the drone in-a-box better?
Drone in-a-box with sliding cover structure
Let’s take a look at the sliding cover structure first. By sliding a pair of separate covers to two sides, a drone charging board is exposed and integrates with a landing platform function. This design is the most adopted one, it’s a classic and robust structure, here I listed the pros and cons.
Drone in-a-box with sliding cover structure
Let’s take a look at the sliding cover structure first. By sliding a pair of separate covers to two sides, a drone charging board is exposed and integrates with a landing platform function. This design is the most adopted one, it’s a classic and robust structure, here I listed the pros and cons.
Pros:
1. Less space and material requires. The sliding cover part of a drone in-a-box hardware requires only a pair of separate covers and a roller (or a pair of a mechanical pulling device).
2. More integrate appearance. As little space is required, the sliding cover makes the whole drone in-a-box look integrated and easy to transport.
Cons:
1. Lower dust-proof performance. Most drone in-a-box systems are for outdoor use, even in a relatively humid environment, dust is unavoidable as the drone take-off and landing would certainly bring. The cleaning work will be annoying especially for the roller design, the pulling design of structure is better in this way.
2. Weaker waterproof ability. No matter how well-sealed the covers are, there still will be some gap, which is big trouble for rainy nights when your drone and the drone in-a-box are outside, while rains are unpredictable.
Drone in-a-box with canopy design
This design is a newcomer and it’s not really a good-looking one, maybe that’s why it’s unpopular (It looks like a big bucket that being misplaced). Same as the last structure, it protects the charging and landing board, and the rest control units. This is its pros and cons:
Pros:
1. Better waterproof and dust-proof performance. The dome design is widely used in ancient buildings for its splendid waterproof performance, this is undoubted. The higher dust-proof performance is contributed to the simple design, no roller maintenance work required.
2. Steady performance. The simpler structure, the easier the working process, which enables a steady performance. Unlike giving two orders to the separated covers synchronously, there is only one order takes to switch on or off the canopy.
Cons:
1. Less pretty. This is a big problem yet there is no solution for it.
2. Not easy for transportation. Due to the drone landing area, at least 60 cm length and width board is required even for small size drones like DJI Mavic. To transport such a big round thing, the supplier must be so headache.
1. Less space and material requires. The sliding cover part of a drone in-a-box hardware requires only a pair of separate covers and a roller (or a pair of a mechanical pulling device).
2. More integrate appearance. As little space is required, the sliding cover makes the whole drone in-a-box look integrated and easy to transport.
Cons:
1. Lower dust-proof performance. Most drone in-a-box systems are for outdoor use, even in a relatively humid environment, dust is unavoidable as the drone take-off and landing would certainly bring. The cleaning work will be annoying especially for the roller design, the pulling design of structure is better in this way.
2. Weaker waterproof ability. No matter how well-sealed the covers are, there still will be some gap, which is big trouble for rainy nights when your drone and the drone in-a-box are outside, while rains are unpredictable.
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This design is a newcomer and it’s not really a good-looking one, maybe that’s why it’s unpopular (It looks like a big bucket that being misplaced). Same as the last structure, it protects the charging and landing board, and the rest control units. This is its pros and cons:
Pros:
1. Better waterproof and dust-proof performance. The dome design is widely used in ancient buildings for its splendid waterproof performance, this is undoubted. The higher dust-proof performance is contributed to the simple design, no roller maintenance work required.
2. Steady performance. The simpler structure, the easier the working process, which enables a steady performance. Unlike giving two orders to the separated covers synchronously, there is only one order takes to switch on or off the canopy.
Cons:
1. Less pretty. This is a big problem yet there is no solution for it.
2. Not easy for transportation. Due to the drone landing area, at least 60 cm length and width board is required even for small size drones like DJI Mavic. To transport such a big round thing, the supplier must be so headache.
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