New system makes use of drones to establish unauthorized exercise whereas minimizing invasiveness, offering a dynamic and responsive safety resolution for properties and companies.
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian J. McNabb
Alarm.com Inc lately secured a brand new US patent (numbered US2023005256) to facilitate drone-based pre-surveillance of buildings. Pre-surveillance is a course of designed to establish key details a few topic earlier than participating in actual surveillance, with Alarm.com arguing that drones may present a compelling monitoring resolution in properties and industrial properties, monitoring the actions of people on/close to the property with out changing into overly invasive.
Equally to how Alarm.Com’s video analytics companies work with their cameras, the UAV-based pre-surveillance system is designed to establish unauthorized actions (reminiscent of an unauthorized particular person in a loading space after hours) and permit the safety operator to react dynamically, with out over-reacting to licensed exercise.
The complete summary reads as follows: “Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for using a drone to pre-surveil a portion of a property. In one aspect, a system may include a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit may include a network interface, a processor, and a storage device that includes instructions to cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include obtaining data that is indicative of one or more acts of an occupant of the property, applying the obtained data that is indicative of one or more acts of the occupant of the property to a pre-surveillance rule, determining that the pre-surveillance rule is satisfied, determining a drone navigation path that is associated with the pre-surveillance rule, transmitting, to a drone, an instruction to perform pre-surveillance of the portion of the one or more properties using the drone navigation path.”
Alarm.com has lengthy been desirous about integrating UAV operations right into a broader safety context, first partnering with Qualcomm as early as 2017 to develop “guard dog” drones designed to guard properties and industrial/industrial property. Extra lately, they introduced a brand new partnership with Sunflower Labs on an autonomous safety drone resolution, designed to permit surveillance over a whole property with minimal intervention.
The unique patent launch is obtainable right here. Extra info on Alarm.com is obtainable right here.
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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory atmosphere for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the industrial drone house and is a world speaker and acknowledged determine within the trade. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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