WingtraOne compared to senseFly eBee X

The eBee X from Sensefly is one of the most sold surveying drones on the market. Learn how to convince your customers that the WingtraOne is superior.

Company: senseFly, a Parrot company

UAV: Ebee X

Summary

• Mature company (founder of senseFly joined Wingtra as COO in 2018)
• Recent management changes
• COO fired, head of production fired, all founders left
• eBee X completely re-designed product, re-launched in late 2018
• Fixed-wing technology with belly landing and hand launch
• Airframe and unprotected camera have limited life time due to belly landing
• Users face risk of propeller cuts
• Needs open space to be operated, risk of crash on every landing
• Belly landing responsible for 70-90 percent of customer’s issues
• Hand-launch limits payload capacity
• Max camera resolution is 24MP (vs. 42MP of WingtraOne)
• 3x less accurate than WingtraOne
• From personal feedback: serious product quality issues (see user experience below)
• Endurance extension is not available yet due to regulatory problems (dual-use good)

Detailed comparison

User experience

The video and images below have been sent to us by a user after they completed eight flights in a mining environment.