Considering the level of technology powering an automated industrial drone, it isn’t hard to imagine that one would make for an excellent addition to your industrial security. These drones fly without a pilot for both scheduled and on-demand missions, they perform their own maintenance like battery charging and swapping and changing sensors, and they’re always ready to respond. If you’re wondering exactly how security drones can impact your organization’s security, there are a number of reasons they are about to become an inexorable part of nearly every industrial organization’s security plan, and the next four are some of the biggest.
#1. Your CCTV system is good, but it isn’t perfect
Considering the cost-efficiency of CCTV systems and the wide swathes of visibility they provide, CCTV security systems are frankly quite good in most industrial settings. They do have a couple of significant downfalls, however. One is the blind spots they suffer from, and another is that though some systems have moving cameras, they really aren’t dynamic solutions.
Industrial security drones are the perfect complement to CCTV systems because they provide visibility into all the areas that aren’t reached by CCTV, like behind objects, around structures and in tight spaces. Industrial security drones are also a dynamic security solution that can react to emerging or suspected situations to provide additional awareness wherever necessary, whenever necessary, including intruder detection and tracking.
#2. Not all your facilities are centralized
When you have uncentralized or even remote facilities, sites or assets, it can be either cost prohibitive or logistically impossible to include those sites in your standard security plans and protocols, and it can seem unreasonable to station security personnel so far from your main operations.
These are the types of sites that are made for industrial drone security, particularly the kind provided by automated drones that can fly both VLOS and BVLOS missions without requiring a pilot. Having an automated drone flying regularly scheduled and on-demand security rounds at these facilities provides your security team with a dynamic and responsive security tool, one that can provide essential information in the event a security or police response is required
#3. You worry for your security personnel
Security personnel in industrial facilities face a number of risks. Intruders, thieves, terrorists and saboteurs have the potential to strike at any industrial site, not to mention the risks that stem from equipment, emissions, falls and other hazardous conditions.
It isn’t reasonable to think that most industrial organizations can simply eliminate security personnel due to the risks they face. Most sites and facilities require a human response on a regular basis. However, an industrial drone can fly ahead of your security personnel to any emerging or unfolding incident and immediately begin transmitting the kind of essential information that gives personnel the upper hand when approaching dangerous situations.
For example, when entering a room where an intruder is hiding, instead of attempting to search the room themselves to locate the suspect who may or may not be armed, an industrial drone can transmit the intruder’s exact location as well as his actions and any visible weaponry through a live video feed.
#4. There are high stakes for your emergency response
Maybe it goes without saying that there are high stakes for any emergency response. However, with the kind of materials and equipment in use in many industrial facilities, many incidents have the potential to become disasters, and they have the potential to do so quickly.
When a situation is unfolding, responders need to know exactly what the problem is, where it is, and how it can be fixed before it reaches a critical stage. The visibility into these issues that can be provided by an automated drone that is always ready to fly at a moment’s notice can be the difference between life and death and the difference between a minor issue and a catastrophe.
Automatic security upgrade
Upgrading an industrial security system used to be a daunting proposition, one that would require major equipment and infrastructure upgrades and the accompanying costs. With an automated industrial drone for security an organization can improve nearly every aspect of its security with just one smart solution that – for the most part – takes care of itself. If that isn’t an automatic upgrade, what is?
