mtlumby2d Chapter 383 Cost
Chapter 383 Cost
When the research team representatives saw that Bai Yuan had designed this advanced drone program while she was still in high school, they thought that she was interested in drone technology and usually focused on theoretical knowledge and technology research and development.
In order to make people happy and to highlight his own professional qualities, he talked to Bai Yuan about many technical and theoretical issues, and taught him everything he knew.
Bai Yuan also learned a lot of new knowledge through this, and her understanding of drone technology has deepened. This has solved many of the doubts she had when writing code before, and she also took the opportunity to humbly ask for a lot of advice.
After a few conversations, both sides were very happy chatting and had a great time.
When the time was almost up, the representative of the research team asked indirectly about the most critical issue of this trip - cost.
After all, their primary purpose in developing technology is to make money, use advanced technology to seize the market, expand their own company, and reach the peak of their lives.
In this case, it is very necessary to consider the cost of drone manufacturing.
It doesn't mean that having the latest codes and programs can make the most advanced drone.
If the hardware of the unit itself is not good, no matter how good the code and program are, they will not be able to run properly on the equipment. The more complex the program, the higher the requirements for the hardware itself.
The difficulty of the drone show on the school anniversary day lies not in the changing colors, nor in how to issue commands to the drone to complete the transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and from static to dynamic patterns.
The difficulty lies in how to make thousands of drones fly at the same time without affecting each other, and how to ensure that each machine can execute commands accurately.
This not only requires a new set of algorithms, but also requires improvements in drone sensing, signal and other aspects.
For the current research team, these are the difficulties that have not yet been overcome, and are also one of the main directions for their acquisition of patents.
The unit structure itself is not a trade secret. The drones used in the show were all stored in the school warehouse. If the research team wanted to find them, they could naturally get them through connections within the system. As long as they disassembled them inside and out, they would be able to find out everything.
At that time, Bai Yuan assembled the first drone by himself, and he still has a deep impression of it. Therefore, he did not spend much time and fluently described everything in detail, from the structure and shell to the built-in engine, and even the model and specifications of the battery used.
Every time Bai Yuan said something, the research team representative's expression became stiffer and his face darker.
By the end, the smile on the research team representative's face changed from sincere at first to awkward now. It was difficult to maintain it, and the smile was about to fade to gray, and he looked extremely depressed.
"This……"
The representative of the research team adjusted the legs of his glasses, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with shame:
“Isn’t the cost too high?”
The unit configurations that Ms. Bai mentioned are all the top-level configurations that can be bought in the domestic and international markets. The amount of money behind each one makes him feel shocked, not to mention that some of them are custom-made and even have a separate production line.
A drone with this kind of crew configuration can't even fly in the sky.
Even if it is military grade, there will be no problem if it is used directly on the battlefield.
It is certainly good to assemble drones in this way, and the power of money is certainly strong, but in this way, the cost of production will directly increase infinitely.
Representatives of the research team roughly estimated that the cost of each drone is at least over 80,000 yuan.
The current civilian drones on the market only cost one or two thousand yuan at most, and the higher-end ones only cost ten or twenty thousand yuan.
The cost of assembling a drone by Bai Yuan is four times higher than the selling price of others. Add to that the market operation, transportation costs, labor costs, etc. In order to make a profit in the end, a drone must be sold at a high price of at least 140,000 yuan.
So the question is, who would be willing to spend such a huge amount of money just to buy a drone?
If we want to achieve the same scene as the drone show on the school anniversary day, we need to purchase at least 2,000 drones at the same time.
Even if it is just used for leasing or outsourcing drone shows, and charged by the show, the price is shockingly high, and the profit is not even half of the original drone.
No matter how you calculate it, this deal is bound to be a loss-making one.
At this time, the research team representative thought of another thing.
A rough calculation shows that there are about 2,000 drones used in the school celebration. Based on the price of 80,000 per drone, 2816, hiss——
The expression on the research team representative's face became stiff and defensive again.
It was not until then that he truly realized the value of this drone show.
An hour and a half performance, every second is burning money!
No wonder Yangwen had to avoid mentioning the school's name when reporting the news.
“It’s not that expensive actually.”
Bai Yuan originally wanted to say this.
Many of the machine parts are purchased through her own channels, and the prices are lower than those on the market. Some are made in her own factory, so she only needs to calculate the labor cost.
The total cost of more than 2,000 drones is only more than 50 million yuan. For her who only wants the final effect, it is a completely acceptable price.
Moreover, the budget approved by the school is sufficient, so there will be no financial concerns at all. At most, it will be a little cumbersome.
The Student Union has been busy working overtime recently to prepare financial reports, and the more than 2,000 drones themselves account for a large proportion.
But for businessmen, the lower the cost, the greater the profit margin. From many perspectives, the cost is indeed a bit high.
If the research team still uses the combination of Bai Yuan's unit, it will certainly be a high-tech product, but it will be tantamount to completely giving up the mid- and low-end market, which is obviously contrary to their philosophy.
It can be said that this unit has no other disadvantages except that it is expensive, but expensiveness is also a fatal disadvantage.
This is also one of the reasons why Bai Yuan thinks that the program code he designed is ordinary and indeed very simple.
With top-level unit configuration as the framework, the performance itself is far ahead of other products, so there is no code that cannot be supported and no program that cannot be run.
Bai Yuan had previously thought about whether it was possible to make certain improvements and upgrades to the program code without relying on the configuration conditions of the unit itself, so as to reduce budget costs and make the student union's financial reporting easier.
But in the end it failed as expected.
The reason for the failure was that she did not have a deep understanding of drones.
People who have only read a few books can never compare to the professionals who actually do research day and night in the laboratory.
Time, hard work, and talent, these three things are never possible for a person to achieve outstanding results that others can only dream of.
The same is true for Bai Yuan.
Just like she had before, she had to practice her piano skills day after day for years before she could stand on the same playing field with those gifted people in the music academy who had been exposed to music since childhood.