ZenaDrone 1000
ZenaDrone 1000 is ZenaDrone large autonomous UAV for agriculture, inspection, security and logistics. It is designed to carry sensors or payloads, operate over wide areas and support field workflows such as crop monitoring, surveillance and delivery trials.
Facts
- Company: ZenaDrone
- Product type: UAV
- Status: Production Model UAV
- Website: https://www.zenadrone.com/features/
Market context
Medium-size autonomous VTOL drone for industrial, agricultural, surveillance and defence cargo workflows.
- Target environment: Agricultural fields, industrial sites, security missions, critical-infrastructure corridors and defence field logistics.
- Workflow context: Autonomous aerial surveillance, inspection, mapping, crop monitoring, multispectral data capture and cargo support.
- Customer context: Industrial operators, agricultural users, drone-service providers, security teams and defence customers.
- Deployment model: Product-led drone platform with DaaS/service positioning and Blue UAS pathway activity.
- Commercial maturity: Third-generation production-model drone with official production-model announcement and Blue UAS cybersecurity-validation milestone.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on regulatory approval, mission payload selection, support coverage, certification progress and verification of performance claims in customer operations.
- Market position: Larger multifunction UAV in ZenaDrone’s portfolio, above the smaller IQ inspection/inventory drones.
- Adjacent products: Flytrex Sky2, Matternet M2, Dufour Aero2, Black Widow
Audience
Industrial operators
Workflow
Autonomous aerial surveillance, inspection, mapping, crop monitoring, multispectral data capture and cargo support.
Capability
VTOL unmanned aircraft, Autonomous drone operations
Deployment environment
Agricultural fields, industrial sites, security missions, critical-infrastructure corridors and defence field logistics.
Specifications
- Aircraft Class: Medium-size autonomous VTOL quadcopter
- Vtol Mode: VTOL quadcopter design with eight rotors
- Payload Capacity Kg: 40 kg
- Propulsion: 100-volt propulsion system in third-generation production model
- Airframe: Aerodynamic carbon-fiber body with foldable carbon-fiber propellers
- Camera Payloads: 4K camera for high-definition images and video
- Sensor Payloads: Multispectral sensors for temperature, lighting, depth, terrain mapping and field-data capture
- Autonomy Model: Pre-scheduled automatic flight plans using mobile or web-based flight-planning software
- Mission Profile: Aerial surveillance, inspection, monitoring, data gathering, agriculture, security, search and rescue, power-line services and defence cargo applications
- Certification: Advanced into the cybersecurity validation phase of the U.S. DoD Blue UAS pathway
- Flight Time Minutes: Up to 60 minutes autonomous flight time for defence reconnaissance and surveillance missions min
Tags
- Peer Group: Defence VTOL UAV, Industrial mapping drone
- Capability: VTOL unmanned aircraft, Autonomous drone operations
- Deployment Environment: Outdoor field environment
- Customer Segment: Defence customer
- Commercial Stage: Commercial product
Timeline / Research
- 2025-02-25 - Production Milestone - ZenaDrone finalizes third-generation ZenaDrone 1000 production model - ZenaTech said subsidiary ZenaDrone finalized the third-generation design of the ZenaDrone 1000 as the production…
Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2025-02-25 - ZenaDrone finalizes third-generation ZenaDrone 1000 production model
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