Market status and competition pattern analysis of global industrial UAV industry in 2024
2024-05-16
1. The development of global industrial drones
Early UAV was mainly used in the military field, has been used for target aircraft, reconnaissance, intelligence detection, carrying bombs and so on. Since the 1980s, the United States, Japan and China have explored the application of UAVs in the civilian field. From 2008 to 2014, benefiting from the development of information technology, mission payload, satellite navigation and other technologies, UAVs were increasingly widely used in the military and industrial fields. Since 2014, with the maturity of the UAV industry chain, the rapid development of flight control and navigation technology, the UAV has the conditions of miniaturization, intelligence and low cost, the rapid development of consumer drones, industrial drones in inspection, security monitoring, agriculture and forestry plant protection, mapping and geographic information and other fields at the same time to develop rapidly.
2. Market size of global industrial UAV-related industries
According to the statistics of Frost&Sullivan, the development speed of global industrial drones will exceed the development speed of military and consumer drones, and become an important industry to stimulate the economic development of various countries. In 2015, the global industrial UAV market size was 5.63 billion yuan, accounting for 25% of the global civilian UAV market size, with the maturity of the UAV industry chain and flight control and navigation technology, industrial UAV industry has been rapid development. In addition, the rapid development of industrial UAV products such as vertical take-off and landing fixed wing UAVs has also promoted the growth of the scale of the global industrial UAV industry, and the proportion of industrial uAVs in civilian UAVs has gradually expanded, and the global industrial UAV market size has reached 95.622 billion yuan in 2021. Accounting for 59.56% of the global civilian UAV market. According to the China Drone 2022 annual report, the global civilian drone industry market size in 2022 is about 30.4 billion US dollars, an increase of 15.6% over the previous year. At present, the global industrial UAV market size accounts for 60% of the civilian UAV market size, and the global industrial UAV market size is estimated to reach 122.684 billion yuan in 2022. According to the growth rate and prospects of the industrial unmanned market, it is preliminarily estimated that the market size of global industrial drones in 2023 will be nearly 200 billion yuan. In the next few years, the global civilian drone market will continue to maintain rapid growth, of which industrial drones will become the development hotspot of civilian drones, and the market size will grow rapidly.
3. Regional development pattern of major industrial drones in the world
At present, the United States, East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea), and Western Europe (Germany, Britain, France, Italy) are the three main manufacturing markets for industrial UAVs. Among them, the United States, China, France, Germany and Israel lead the world in R&D and innovation capabilities. The United States is the largest market and the most active investment country for industrial drones, and has a complete industrial drone industry chain. In Western Europe, Germany, Austria and Switzerland have gathered more than half of the world's "hidden champions" companies, extending their manufacturing advantages to the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, such as the evolution of piston engine technology into gasoline or heavy oil aviation engines, flying cars and drones to achieve common development. In East Asia, countries such as Japan, South Korea and China have a strong momentum of industrial drones. Southeast Asia is one of the youngest and most economically dynamic regions in the world today, among which Indonesia is an archipelago country with more than 14,000 islands, and drones are prominent in this region where land and water transportation is not efficient.
4. The layout of the world's major industrial UAV enterprises (enterprise nature level analysis)
Throughout the UAV industry, the listed companies in the UAV industry are mainly military UAV manufacturers, while the civilian UAV industry that started in recent years has not yet entered the intensive period of listing. At present, there are very few public companies of industrial drones, most of which are listed in the over-the-counter market (such as UASDrone), or the drone business has not yet constituted a main source of income (such as Changying Xin Quality), and the market value is small in general and has not reached a profit. The layout of the world's major industrial UAV enterprises is shown in the following figure:
5. The layout of the world's major industrial UAV enterprises (subdivision track level analysis)
Drone Industry Insights evaluated nearly 850 organizations whose core business is providing drone services to third parties. According to DII's assessment, the best UAV companies for mapping and inspection services among the top UAV companies in 2022 include: Aerodyne Group, Terra UAV Company, Cyberhawk, Nordic UAV Company, Field Group. The best drone delivery companies are: Zipline, Wing, Matternet, Manna ero, Flytrex.
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