The use of drones continues to increase, and with worldwide sales expected to exceed $223 billion by 2034, it’s clear this technology has expanding applications.
In the security industry, drones are becoming an indispensable component of security approaches, having specific use cases in outdoor locations and being equipped with unique functionalities to support other systems.
Explore the top benefits of drones for surveillance to learn how this technology can secure your business by monitoring outdoor locations, responding to threats, and complementing existing security solutions.
What Are Surveillance Drones?
Surveillance drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) built to monitor vast areas from a bird’s-eye view through high-quality images and videos.
Most consumer drones have standard features such as adjustable cameras, lights, and rechargeable batteries. However, security drones are specially designed to monitor and protect business facilities and outdoor events.
For example, a surveillance drone from American Security Force is equipped with advanced features, including:
- Thermal imaging cameras for night surveillance
- High-zoom optical cameras for detailed monitoring
- Video stabilization for clear and smooth footage
- Alarms and strobe lights to alert personnel and deter intruders
- Encrypted data transfer for secure communication
Security drones can also be integrated with additional security solutions, such as standard surveillance cameras and access control systems, making them more versatile and useful than regular drones.
What Are the Top Benefits of Drones?
Investing in a security drone for your business can provide the following benefits:
- Flexible surveillance: Without a need for infrastructure or to be permanently installed, drones can be deployed on short notice to accommodate evolving or unpredictable security needs.
- Quick response: Drones can be launched to assess incidents quicker than patrol guards, allowing fast responses to urgent situations.
- Panoramic footage: With 360-degree HD cameras, drones can easily detect threats and eliminate blind spots.
- 24/7 monitoring: Deploying surveillance drones at night to monitor areas, even in low-light conditions, enables round-the-clock protection.
- Reduced risk: Drones can oversee remote, unreachable, or hazardous areas to reduce personnel risk and business liability.
- Real-time data: Security drone cameras provide uninterrupted live feeds to facilitate timely decisions and actions by on-duty personnel.
- Tracking capabilities:Drones can identify and track individuals and movements to aid targeted responses, even in highly crowded areas.
- Cost-effective protection: Drones cover large areas with little oversight, requiring fewer employed guards and saving business costs associated with manpower and infrastructure maintenance.
Where Can Surveillance Drones Be Deployed?
Surveillance drones can be deployed in almost any outdoor facility and are most impactful in monitoring areas such as:
Why Choose American Security Force’s Surveillance Drones?
American Security Force offers industry-leading, innovative, and patented security drone systems that offer additional benefits for businesses, including:
Fully-Automated Monitoring
Our patented system increases the effectiveness and efficiency of security drones by enabling each deployed drone to receive and execute fixed flight paths at predetermined or random time intervals.
Through this technology, businesses can reduce the risk of human error in surveillance and maintain constant security with reduced costs due to lower operating expenses.
Self-Docking and Charging
We offer an automated drone docking station that allows drones to return automatically to charge once a certain power level is detected. The surveillance drone deploys again when fully charged, enabling uninterrupted surveillance without manual intervention.
This independent charging process ensures drones are always ready for deployment and further reduces the reliance on human operators who would otherwise need to connect drones to power sources manually.
Improved Safety Features
Our drone base systems are designed with longevity in mind.
We’ve equipped them with safety and resilience features to ensure smooth operation without issues, even in challenging or unexpected conditions.
Through state-of-the-art technology, our drone bases can:
- Monitor wind speed and command the drone to return in the event of high winds.
- Use humidity sensors to command return in case of snow or rain.
- Automatically alert the end user (such as the security manager) of decisions to return or prevent launch due to severe weather conditions.
- Alert the end user about poor battery health.
- Alert the end user if heat or motion is detected near the base.
- Command drone to fly closer to the base if communication signal quality is poor.
- Prevent charging when drone batteries are full.
- Monitor the main power supply and send alerts for disruptions to the base’s power source.
These additional features and capabilities increase the reliability of our drones, extend their lifespans, and reduce downtime, making the systems more financially efficient.
Streamlined Coordination
Patrol and posted guards from American Security Force are trained to coordinate with the drones and respond directly and precisely to their detections.
The drone system also supports two-way communication, facilitating direct interactions between personnel at different locations. This capability helps security teams coordinate seamlessly to make more informed decisions when managing threats or responding to incidents.
Multi-Layered Protection
When deploying our security drones, we consider the optimal locations for their patrol by assessing the positioning of other surveillance systems and pinpointing potential blind spots that can be covered by the drone’s flight path.
We also identify the GPS locations of existing security systems, such as alarms, motion sensors, and cameras.
When a part of the security system is triggered, it sends a command to the drone or drone base. The drone flies to the GPS location of the triggered systems and records video and audio of the area, sending a live feed to the end user’s smart device or computer.
The surveillance drone will continue to record until the user commands it to return to the base or if the battery runs too low.
Our drones and their sophisticated, autonomous features complement existing security systems you may have in place, providing enhanced surveillance to detect intrusions, facilitating swift responses by personnel, and identifying potential intruders to prevent repeat incidents.
See the Benefits of Surveillance Drones First-Hand With ASF
If you’re looking for constant, high-quality surveillance to safeguard equipment, individuals, and property, our drones are the ideal solution.
Contact us today for more information and find out how we can protect your business through our specialized drones and other advanced security technology.
