UAV Security System Automating Alarm Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional Video Management System (VMS) security systems using stationary cameras and sensors often result in unnecessary dispatch of personnel to validate alarm events, leading to wasteful expenditure of time and money, as well as potential risk to personnel, due to the inability to dynamically adjust the field of view or confirm the validity of alarms.
Innovation Solution
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system that defines flight plans based on API access, captures environmental data, detects security breaches, and automatically activates to perform additional surveillance, allowing for dynamic adjustment of the UAV's field of view and confirmation of alarm validity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If stationary surveillance cameras and sensors are used to monitor security, then continuous monitoring of predefined areas is achieved, but unnecessary personnel dispatch occurs when alarm events are triggered by false alarms or non-emergent elements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an intermediary between the stationary surveillance system and human personnel. When an alarm event is detected, the UAV autonomously flies to the location to verify the alarm, serving as a mediator that eliminates the need for immediate personnel dispatch while maintaining reliable alarm validation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by implementing automated alarm verification through the UAV. The UAV autonomously navigates to alarm locations, captures imagery, and validates alarms without human intervention, allowing the security system to verify alarms independently rather than relying on personnel dispatch.
2Adaptability or versatility
If stationary surveillance cameras with preset field of view are used, then continuous monitoring of predefined areas is maintained, but the ability to dynamically adjust field of view to capture activity outside preset range is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by transitioning from static stationary cameras with fixed fields of view to a dynamic UAV that can physically move and adjust its position and orientation. This allows the surveillance system to dynamically adapt its field of view to capture activity outside preset ranges while maintaining overall system simplicity through automated flight control.
3Reliability
If personnel are dispatched to every identified alarm event for validation, then comprehensive security verification is achieved, but high expenditure of time and money occurs along with unnecessary risk to personnel
Solution Approach 1:
The UAV serves as an intermediary that performs security verification tasks that would otherwise require human personnel. By deploying the UAV to validate alarms, the system maintains reliable security verification while eliminating the need for personnel to physically respond to every alarm, thereby conserving time and resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of personnel dispatch with an automated UAV system. The UAV performs the physical task of traveling to alarm locations and verifying security conditions, substituting human mechanical effort with an automated aerial vehicle that incurs no time or resource loss.
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AI summary
A method includes defining a flight plan of an unmanned aerial vehicle from a rest location thereof to a destination location within a memory of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and capturing, through one or more sensor(s) communicatively coupled to the unmanned aerial vehicle and a server through a computer network, data related to an environment of a specific location covered by the one or more sensor(s). The method also includes detecting, through a processor associated with the one or more sensor(s) and/or the server, a security breach and/or a security threat at the specific location based on analyzing the captured data, and automatically activating, through the one or more sensor(s) or the server, the flight plan on the unmanned aerial vehicle in response to the detection of the security breach and/or the security threat to dispatch the unmanned aerial vehicle to perform additional surveillance of the specific location.