Millennials just want the best photos in their Instagram feed. They think of and use a drone as a machine where they can attach a camera to capture aerial shots of parties, music festivals, beautiful places they travel to, and the like.
More than a drone being associated to a tool that can immortalize life's best memories, one should also know that a drone can serve a better purpose.
This world has not been the safest place to live in as trying to achieve zero crime rates is always an arduous pursuit. It is good news that a crime-fighting drone has already been developed.
TechCrunch reported that Aptonomy, a company that specializes in security and unmanned aerial vehicles, introduced a crime-fighting drone that is called "the self-flying security guard".
Aptonomy has built its systems on top of a drone often used by movie-makers, the DJI S-1000+, a camera-carrying octocopter. Other impressive hardware attributes of the self-flying security guard are a new flight controller, a second computer to power day-vision and night-vision cameras, bright lights, and loudspeakers.
More importantly, the drone has artificial intelligence and navigational systems that allow it to fly low and fast, avoiding obstacle in structure-dense environments, and detecting human activity or faces in the area anonymously.
By getting into the Aptonomy interface, a user can click on a point on a map to send out a drone to a particular location, then watch that flight in real time or review a recording of it later.
PoliceOne has mentioned ways how drones can help the police to fight crimes. According to them, drones can be used for surveillance and crowd monitoring, among others.
Stakeouts are a common police activity. This involves hours of watching and waiting. By using drones, the police are now able to see places and things that fixed cameras cannot reach. More so, places like the middle of a field which has no vantage point to conduct surveillance without being seen can be now be reached by drones and give the police the opportunity to get a solid view of the scene.
Monitoring large events requires a great deal of manpower which makes it undeniably expensive. As a wise alternative, the usage of drones gives police departments a wider field of monitoring over a large area. Drones' capacity to zoom into areas of interest gives the police the ability to remotely assess a threat.
The invention of drones has done the fight for crimes good. There are a lot more ways for the police to utilize the drones and its effective use still and will only rely upon how they are managed.
