OSA Provides Real-Time Drone Security and Emergency Services

OSA provides real-time drone security and emergency services for better control, precise intelligence gathering, comprehensive situational awareness, and more informed decision making.

Security and surveillance are one of the biggest growth areas in our ever-expanding Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) sector. While it’s a relatively recent addition to enterprise toolkits in many industries, the use of drones to provide aerial assessments of activities on the ground is actually a return to form for the technology, which has seen some of its most ambitious development in defense applications.

The reasons are clear. Aerial vehicles can cover vastly more terrain than slower, clumsier ground-based surveillance systems — which is why they’ve been a key component of military and law enforcement applications for decades. But drones, which are smaller, cheaper, and more efficient than manned-aircraft like helicopters, have very quickly democratized access to aerial security and surveillance and opened up the skies to companies of all sizes across sectors.

Aerial drone services are an ideal tool for upgrading your security force. They are able to “walk” a route more quickly and effectively than a person, moving over obstructions easily and being able to view rooftops. By combining tethered drones to keep consistent surveillance and deployable drones to investigate disturbances, your team will maximize its’ potential to identify and de-escalate problems early on in their timeline. The added situational awareness provided to security forces will help minimize risk to personnel, and thermal tracking software can be used to ensure intruders are apprehended. 

Event Surveillance
Securing events often involves a small task force trying to cover a large area and a lot of people.

There are many benefits of drone security for event surveillance.  Mapping a venue pre-event to create an action plan for security deployment. Using drones to map out a venue will give the team the information they need to place their forces, identify weak points (employee entrances) where sustained surveillance could be beneficial, and help familiarize their team with evacuation routes in case of disaster.

Mixing tethered drones and deployable drones help security respond to all situations quickly and efficiently. By placing tethered drones to provide consistent information from key areas, security is able to keep a birds-eye view of the area, giving a 360° view. Deployable drones can then be used to investigate potential disturbances, reducing the response time and keeping personnel safer.

Additionally, drone use deters intruders. Just as having alarms or cameras can make your event less of a target, security equipped with drones is more of a deterrent for troublemakers.

UAV’s can run a perimeter route faster and more easily. Walking a perimeter is time-consuming, and it can be easy to slip in unnoticed. With thermal imaging, drones are able to spot intruders more easily and move through the route quickly.

Intruder Response
Equipped with thermal imaging, drones are able to not only spot intruders but track them until they can be apprehended.

Using drones helps security forces get closer to intruders without alerting them. Particularly at night, when headlights on vehicles can indicate an incoming team, drones can pinpoint an intruders location and follow discreetly, giving security time to bring in whatever forces are deemed necessary.

Drones can be used to search blind spots and corners, minimizing risk to your people. Not having to confront blind spots in the traditional manner means your team will be able to respond to situations effectively with less injury.

Tracking the intruders just became easier. Using thermal imaging, drones will be able to track intruders through dense undergrowth and obstructions, providing your team with the information required to catch said person.

With drones, response time is much faster. Sending a drone up to the roof of a building or to an outer perimeter can be done in a manner of minutes, so that you can find out what’s going on before it develops into a situation.

Across the drone ecosystem, OSA improves outcomes. We’re all about the joy of delivering value, including vastly improved operational efficiency and ROI for clients, along with better business results for drone pilots.