Jani Hirvinen

Hirvinen is also one of the first ones developing small private sector professional level UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).

According to him, we are facing Planet 5.0, an era transforming us to work and live differently in terms of logistics, transportation and human interaction.

He started to work with Universal Omni-place 4621A machines at a company called Point Production Ltd in Hyvinkää, Finland.

In late 2010 Hirvinen released[6] that hit markets really hard and introduced many new techniques that are now in use on most multicopter airframes.

[7] He specializes on electronics, robotics, sensor networks, telemetry systems, IoT, Drones (air, land, sea).

Scientists like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and a Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli have greatly inspired Hirvinen.

Tesla Roadster has become an artificial satellite of the Sun, human-sized robots achieve difficult parkour moves, and we have witnessed the beginning of unmanned technology on retail level.

It has put the delivery systems under new type of pressure, because humans cannot handle fast and economically efficient volumes anymore.

Hirvinen predicts that because of all the new technology, we will soon be working and living differently in terms of logistics, transportation, and human interaction.

jDrones is an R&D company, and it creates and designs small autonomous UV devices that operate on the ground and in the air.

It is an on-screen display (OSD) system which makes it possible to fly a drone with flight data instruments visible on the screen.

[10] jDrones is also a founding member of the Dronecode Project that is hosted under the Linux Foundation and serves as the vendor-neutral home for PX4, MAVLink, QGroundControl, and the MAVSDK.

President, Wang Jun, deputy general manager of Vanke Real Estate, Chairman of the company, Mr. Li Xuhong, and Mr. Jani Hirvinen attended the signing ceremony.

The appointment ceremony for the newly added expert members of the Shenzhen UAV Industry Association in 2017 was also carried out.

Xue Yonggang, Guo Wei, Jia Hengdan, and Jani Hirvinen were hired as members of the expert committee.

Among other activities, the event consisted of a themed conference (Power of the Age), 18 forums, 15,000 square meters of international exhibitions, and a global drone contribution awards ceremony.

With the theme of “No Man System, Wisdom Drives the Future”, more than 40 heavyweight speakers, including well-known academicians, industry elites and entrepreneurs, were invited.

In the event, leaders, experts, and entrepreneurs from more than 10 countries and regions gathered together to discuss how UAVs can nurture new industries and open up new markets in the era of artificial intelligence, and to inspire new kind of kinetic energy to promote the healthy and orderly development of the global drone industry.

[22] In the forum, one of the keynote speakers was Jani Hirvinen, who gave an update on various developments and trends in the UAV industry.

The organizing committee had invited internationally recognized UAV experts and scholars from the United States, Britain, the European Union, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Japan, Korea and Israel, along with 100 other countries and regions.

Approximately 3000 UAV industry organizations, global experts, entrepreneurs, well-known advisory bodies and financial institutions were presented in this major annual UV event.

"[25] Coinciding with the world congress, the International Unmanned Systems Open Source Developers Conference focused on issues like non-GPS navigation, object avoidance, UAVCAN hardware system, how to build industrial solutions with drones, airborne LUA script, TECS debugging, new challenges and opportunities in drone group control and intranet, on how to apply Ardupilot to a new field - ChibiOS/HWDEF, on how to use lidar on drones, the application and future of cloud drones, new multi-rotor navigation controller based on S-curve, and to creating an open software and hardware platform, and an ecosystem suitable for different industries (UAV + load).

[26] Organized on 23 June 2019, the first China (Huizhou) International UAV Application Development Forum was held in Huizhou, focusing on the theme “Determining Vision and Technology to Create the Future.” The forum invited 16 countries (regions) including China, the United States, Japan, Australia.

There organizers of this unique conference and forum were the Party Golog Prefecture Committee, and the Qinghai Province Sports Bureau.

[30] The 2019 International Drone Development Summit, one of the special events of the 2019 World Internet of Things Expo, was held in China's Wuxi on 6 September 2019.

[31] In 2005, Hirvinen moved to Thailand, where he still has his home and drone assembly line in Bangkok's Prawet district.

Sinclair ZX80.
According to Hirvinen, UVs will lead us beyond Earth.
jDrones is located in Bangkok's Prawet District.
Hirvinen at Langfang in May 2019.
Hirvinen giving a keynote speech in Chongqing.
Golog Prefecture in China.