New system makes use of drones to establish unauthorized exercise whereas minimizing invasiveness, offering a dynamic and responsive safety answer for houses and companies.
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian J. McNabb
Alarm.com Inc just 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 info a couple of topic earlier than partaking in actual surveillance, with Alarm.com arguing that drones may present a compelling monitoring answer in houses and business 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 (resembling 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: “Strategies, programs, and equipment, together with laptop applications encoded on a storage gadget, for utilizing a drone to pre-surveil a portion of a property. In a single side, a system could embrace a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit could embrace a community interface, a processor, and a storage gadget that features directions to trigger the processor to carry out operations. The operations could embrace acquiring information that’s indicative of a number of acts of an occupant of the property, making use of the obtained information that’s indicative of a number of acts of the occupant of the property to a pre-surveillance rule, figuring out that the pre-surveillance rule is glad, figuring out a drone navigation path that’s related to the pre-surveillance rule, transmitting, to a drone, an instruction to carry out pre-surveillance of the portion of the a number of properties utilizing the drone navigation path.”
Alarm.com has lengthy been focused on integrating UAV operations right into a broader safety context, first partnering with Qualcomm as early as 2017 to develop “guard canine” drones designed to guard houses and business/industrial property. Extra just lately, they introduced a brand new partnership with Sunflower Labs on an autonomous safety drone answer, designed to permit surveillance over a complete 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 business and the regulatory setting for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the business drone house and is a world speaker and acknowledged determine within the business. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand new applied sciences.
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