A German security management software company has been exhibiting ‘event-based autonomous drone flight’.
If a perimeter intrusion detector sends an alert to a control room, what if the perimeter is so large that it takes time to send a guard to the scene to investigate? Hence the appeal of a drone with a camera (and perhaps a thermal imaging camera, for use after dark), feeding the video stream back to the control room. The Physical Security Integration Management (PSIM) software company ela-soft has integrated its GEMOS PSIM platform with OPTEX‘s fibre optic fence sensors, Fiber Sensys PIDS and OPTEX REDSCAN and IP PIRs (passive infra-red detectors). If a sensor detects an intrusion on the perimeter line, an alarm will be triggered onto the command and control platform, and a human operator can launch the video surveillance drone to the GPS location of the intrusion.
The GEMOS PSIM will send the command to the drone to take off and fly to the site of the intrusion. The camera will start wirelessly streaming the video to the control room so the security staff can assess the situation. After mission accomplished the drone goes back to land. The GPS coordinates are pre-loaded onto the site map and when the intrusion occurs, the PSIM platform knows which GPS coordinate to use for piloting the drone. The operator can see if the drone scares off the intruder, and monitor from a dashboard the drone for height and battery power.
ela-soft showed their product most recently on the Optex stand at Intersec 2017 in Dubai. Also in January the firm was among firms showing integration with the Milestone Systems video management software, at the Milestone Kickoff event at its offices in Copenhagen.
