DJI has sprung another surprise on drone lovers in the form of the compact and versatile, Mavic 2 Enterprise. DJI has added some powerful accessories to the Mavic 2 Zoom to come up with this new powerhouse drone. In this blog post, I will discuss how the combination of the newly added features has significantly UPPED the ability of this new drone – making it possible for you to execute nuanced and creative solutions with ease.

The New Mavic 2 Enterprise Features and Accessories That Everyone Is Raving About

This new Mavic 2 Enterprise will house a 12mp Camera that comes with 2x optical and 3x digital zoom. Now pilots won’t have to fly as close to objects that they’re inspecting.   However, the BIG news here is the ability to carry 3 new DJI accessories that are also controlled through the flight application.  Whether you need to light an inspection area, communicate with other people - otherwise unreachable, or be seen through the darkness of night...the Mavic 2 Enterprise packs quite the punch.

New Accessories: (Remember, controlled by the app)

1. Spotlight; 2400 lumen dual top-mounted light
2. Speaker; 100db top mounted speaker
3. Beacon; Top Mounted Anti-Collision Strobe

Mavic 2 Enterprise – the New Accessories Make Some Creative Applications Possible

The Mavic 2 enterprise is really a compact solution that could work for a wide variety of public safety officers and industrial inspectors.  In order to fully understand the power of a compact solution like the Mavic 2 Enterprise, you must first understand how combination of stated new features and non-stated features brings most of the value to this new drone.

Low Noise Levels Make Operations in Populated Areas Easier

With a quiet drone, that has a 12 megapixel sensor with zoom means that you don’t have to fly far away to keep the noise down and still get a decent image.  The Mavic 2 Enterprise is insanely quiet, like it would be hard to hear in a city at 75’ in elevation. Take that stealthy flight and add zoom, and now we’re getting jobs done easier without constant questioning from concerned civilians.

Mavic 2E is Ideal for Disaster Response

The M2E is the first drone with ground controlled accessories, let alone the first one that can fit in a backpack or even a fanny pack!!!! With features like Occusync 2.0 and the speaker, now first responders can survey a vast number of houses and communicate with stranded hurricane victims.  This will vastly increase the communication in disaster response, and will decrease response time to high value victims and efficiently scout a larger area with less equipment and personnel.

You Can Even Fly in Cold Conditions Now

The combination of these new accessories vastly increases the uses for the Mavic 2 Enterprise.  This new Mavic is now the world's smallest drone with self-heating batteries.  Allowing first responders to get vital information in colder temps.  Typically anyone north of Texas has issues with battery maintenance in colder temperatures, now with this feature if a nuclear plant worker needs a visual inspection of cooling tower 3, in the middle of January, NOW…

They can fly the Mavic 2 E, in the cold at night and get instant answers on what's on top of cooling tower 3.

A Larger Sensor Will Result in a Better Quality Image

While the Mavic 2 zoom does carry the same 12mp sensor and 2x optical zoom with 3x digital zoom as the Mavic 2E, most public safety officers are used to using the Z30 camera on the M200/600 or the Z3 camera on the older inspire 1.  A common complaint from many officers is the ability to smoothly control the Z30 camera to actually distinguish the subject and movement. If you’ve never flown a zoom camera on a drone, you understand how extremely difficult it is to fly when you’re zoomed in so drastically. Since we have a larger sensor, with less zoom, on a quieter drone we should be able to fly closer and eliminate the parallax issues of high intensity zoom… now it should be easier to control the zoom, which gives us a better quality image.

Compact Size Allows You to Access Hard to Reach Areas

It has become clear that many drone pilots want a vehicle they can bring anywhere. They don’t want a big bulky case that ends up taking off the crown molding when leaving the wife for a weekend of work. This TINY drone will fold up into the size of a 20 oz bottle of coke, yet flies with more agility and stability than the old Mavic pro and older phantoms.  Having a small, portable drone is great for those weekend warriors traveling to Puerto Rico, but now having a small drone that can also hold other accessories… groundbreaking.  This smaller drone will also make particular industrial inspections easier.  Inspections like: Tube inspections, pipeline inspections, cooling tower inspections, etc.

Local Encryption Results in Solid Data Security

This Mavic 2 Enterprise marks the very first drone with local encryption.  Yes, the M2E has 24gb of onboard storage, that’s 3 times the normal size of storage.   DJI has actually taken chain of evidence and data security to a whole new level adding:

 “When Password Protection is enabled, users are required to enter their password each time they activate the drone, link the remote controller with the drone, and access the drone’s onboard storage, giving them full, exclusive use and enhanced security. This provides secure access to the drone and its onboard data storage, while protecting that data even if the drone is physically compromised.”

Some Creative Uses for These New Epic Tools

1. Using zoom for amazing orbits while lighting the subject? (Will intelligent flight modes be the same from one unit to another?
2. Light Painting with the Mavic 2 Enterprise (don’t know what I mean, check out our class)

Some Unrealistic Creative Uses

Ok, I’m getting a little wild with these ideas, but c’mon I’m a creative at heart.

1. Using multiple M2E’s to strobe a singular subject. Imagine 5 M2E’s flying around a subject, and you could control the strobe and position of each light. This would be amazing in architectural photography.
2. Film with the M2E and spotlight to film subjects with reflective graphics. It is always hard to truly showcase reflective graphics in video or photos, the new M2E would make this a walk in the park.
3. Go let someone into the neighborhood when strobing the new spotlight at the gate.

Who Would Find the New Mavic 2 Enterprise Accessories Extremely Helpful?

1. Police: With a small, easy to deploy device the M2E adds significant value to officers with little room for gear in an already packed vehicle. Mavic 2 Enterprise can be used with prop gages and the light to remote clear rooms, vehicles and obstructions that may be difficult to use.
2. Police: The speaker can be extremely valuable to officers who need to communicate with barricaded suspects from a distance.
3. Firefighters: Communicate with victims in high rises and tall buildings.
4. Inspectors; Using the light to illuminate hard to see areas.
5. Photographers: illuminate a foreground subject while snapping a long exposure of the area behind the subject
6. DSP’s (Drone Service Providers) The beacon makes night time flights even easier for police who need a drone for crowd monitoring with zoom.
7. Photographers: Use beacon to announce position to take amazing sunset twilight shots
8. Pipeline Inspectors: use the M2E with prop cages to fly down large pipes and tunnels with the light
9. Explorers: Using the M2E we could fly this compact drone in small areas to illuminate caves and other dark spaces to light the night.
10. Wind Turbine Inspections: Easier to see wingtip portholes for proper blade ventilation.
11. Police: Crowd monitoring becomes easier as now the police can fly a small drone, which will most likely qualify for flights over people, and have zoom control and be able to communicate with people on the ground via speaker.
12. Police: finding a hidden suspect with the spotlight feature and long distance video transmission
13. Videographers: Filming real estate inside just became easier. If I could fly a drone around the inside of a house with a light, I’d never bring lights or a slider to a house ever again. It’s easy to assume that a slider, camera, tripod and lights would weigh 10-20x what the M2E weighs in comparison.
14. Videographers: Lighting a subject at twilight – I can’t even imagine how cool the shots of wake surfing would be with this drone.

All Seems Good. but yet Few Questions Remain…

There are a few questions that I have in regards to the new accessories we’re seeing from DJI. First off, what is the weight of each accessory, and how will it affect the flight characteristics of the drone itself? When we add weight to the aircraft, we change the center of gravity of the aircraft. And, when we change the center of gravity on the aircraft, we fundamentally change the flight characteristics of the drone itself.  I’m really interested to see how DJI handled this particular problem.

Did they slow down the gains which will force you to stay in GPS “geriatric” mode? Or did they change the max angles for pitch and roll? Or did they not change anything at all? Which means if you try to race the M2E with a light on it – you end up with a dead drone.

It is also very interesting that you can control the accessories from the flight control app itself. This is a huge step, but it also requires additional questions. For example, in the PR release of the M2E we can see that there are 10 commands pre-programmed for the speaker. Well, can we speak over the speaker, or just use the commands? I’m sure it's both, but, hey I had to ask! Could you control the light to strobe, or is it just turn on and off? Sometimes these features are dead-locked and other times it's, “o that’s so silly of course we would do that.”

Could you set the light to strobe at the same rate of emergency vehicles so now I have a way to autonomously open my neighborhood gate when the family drives up? This is a valid question!

What Is the Price of a Mavic 2 Enterprise?

$1,999 USD: Mavic 2 Enterprise comes with the drone, remote, one battery and ALL THREE accessories included.  By the Fly more combo for extra batteries (2), hub charger, car charger, soft carrying case and extra propellers.

Would I Buy a Mavic 2 Enterprise?

That’s actually a really easy question, with the accessories and self-heating batteries alone… drone ops are now even easier in a sub-compact airframe.   So yes, yes I’m getting one, not only to test public safety applications but new creative endeavors as well.

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Comments (2)

• S

  Any word on if they will be releasing a firware update or patch in DJI Assistant 2 that allows us to program one of the buttons on the flight controller to go to manual atti mode (3)? I found that we can use the old 1.1.2 Assistant in debug to adjust some controller settings, but shouldn’t there be an easier more legitimate way of doing this on the M2’s?

  Steven B
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  Hello Steven,
  You have already figured out the easiest way!

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