36Kr learned that recently, Qianlu Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Qianlu Technology") announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan of Pre-A round of financing, this round of financing led by Xintian Venture Capital, seven seas capital with investment. Wang Huaiqing, founder of Qianyun Technology, said that this round of financing funds will be used for marketing channel expansion, product research and development and team expansion.
Founded in 2018, Qianlu Technology is a technology company that develops mobile robots, AI detection algorithms and Internet of Things applications, with more than 60 employees. With the needs of patrol inspection scenarios as the core, Qian patrol technology provides customers with production safety supervision and asset health management solutions by using software and hardware products such as inspection robots, industry application systems, and terminal operating systems.
At present, the main landing scenarios of Qianlu Technology Inspection Solution are concentrated in the power system. The number of power stations in the mainland is huge, and with the acceleration of the construction of the smart grid system, the market demand for power inspection robots continues to increase.
Relevant data show that the market size in 2019 has reached 1.2 billion yuan, and it is expected that the market size of electric power inspection robots will exceed 5 billion yuan by 2023. At the same time, according to the planning of the State Grid and China Southern Power Grid, by 2025, the annual demand for its outdoor inspection robots will reach 2000-3000 units.
In terms of hardware, Qianyue Technology has created an outdoor inspection robot R2R4, an indoor inspection robot R3R2 and a composite inspection robot (special operation robot) P2R4-J. The three robots have basic functions such as autonomous inspection, environmental perception, data acquisition, intelligent analysis, remote control, etc., and are equipped with dual-light PTZ, 3D lidar, ultrasonic probe, gas acquisition sensor and other equipment.
Thousand Patrol Technology inspection robot
Different inspection robots have also been optimized and upgraded for different scenarios, such as the indoor inspection robot R3R2 is equipped with a lifting platform, suitable for indoor inspection scenarios such as power distribution rooms and machine rooms; the composite inspection robot P2R4-J is equipped with a mechanical arm, which is more suitable for depth detection in complex environments.
Qianlu Technology is equipped with "lock shooting in the process" technology on the inspection robot it develops to improve the inspection efficiency of the robot. Wang Huaiqing said that at present, a considerable number of inspection robots on the market need to stop to shoot or measure when inspecting and reading the status of equipment, and the inspection efficiency is low. The "on-the-go lock shooting" technology of Qianyue Technology can ensure that the inspection robot does not stop during operation, and completes the inspection task by locking the shooting through the gimbal camera.
To achieve "lock shooting in motion" needs to solve two problems, one is that the detection equipment (including PTZ cameras, infrared cameras, etc.) needs to be linked with the car body, and the corresponding control algorithm needs to be upgraded; second, the robot itself needs to establish a three-dimensional map of the surrounding environment, rather than only using a flat map to control the travel route.
Wang Huaiqing said that compared with the average of 80-150 checkpoints per hour for a robot, Thousand Patrol Technology can increase this value to 500-1000.
Qianlu Technology has not only made continuous innovation and breakthroughs in robot hardware, but also shifted its deployment strategy from simple robot sales to the landing of inspection solutions, which is the biggest business change of Qianlu Technology in the past year.
Wang Huaiqing said to 36Kr: "The inspection robot is only a specific execution terminal, and the entire digital system needs to analyze, process, and digitally manage and maintain the equipment status, environmental status and safety information in the inspection environment, so as to reflect the value of unmanned inspection." ”
Qianyue Technology has created three intelligent inspection middle platforms of IOT IoT, AI intelligent computing and BI data exploration, as well as system products such as inspection system cloud platform and terminal operating system. These system platforms can not only realize the comprehensive management and free scheduling of inspection equipment, but also allow the system to complete self-training and self-learning according to relevant data, and provide visual analysis and maintenance suggestions based on the actual use of users.
Qianlu Technology intelligent inspection cloud platform
Qianlu Technology believes that in the process of using the unmanned inspection system, the personnel should not continue to bear a large number of basic data analysis tasks, but should intuitively see the inspection results like using a 2C web page, and can freely retrieve relevant data and issue instructions. To this end, Thousand Patrol Technology has strengthened the edge computing capabilities of inspection robots to complete some inspection tasks with high bandwidth requirements (such as video stream analysis).
In addition, the cloud platform of Qianlu Technology can be deployed on the public/private network, and the difficulty of users to get started is reduced, and the device model and data information can be viewed directly through the large-screen information after logging in to the cloud platform. At present, the power inspection solution of Qianlu Technology has landed in multiple substations, and the equipment detection rate is close to 100%; it is also actively expanding other application scenarios such as urban security.
In terms of product production, Qianlu Technology's current robots still have foundry OEM production, but it has considered self-built base production, and it is expected to land 300-500 units this year. In terms of marketing, Qianyue Technology is also actively expanding the channels of agents to expand the scope of the inspection program.