New drone floodlight can illuminate two tennis courts at once

Volarious, a Singapore-based tech company specializing in tethered drone systems, has launched a new floodlight called V-Light. Compatible with the DJI Matrice 30 (M30) drone series, the product provides 20,000 lumens of light that could illuminate some 5,616 square feet of land — the same size as two tennis courts.

The new DJI drone floodlight by Volarious is designed to assist first responders and public safety officials during nighttime emergencies, such as the one that happened in Pakistan last month. Seven children and an adult had to endure a 14-hour harrowing ordeal when their cable car became stranded high over a remote ravine. After one of the cables snapped, the high-risk operation was completed in the darkness of night with help from ground-based flood lights.

“Emergencies and disasters strike unpredictably, often in the dead of night,” stresses Weiliang Zhang, who founded Volarious. “As the Pakistan cable car incident remains a…