“As a substitute of a 911 name [that triggers the drone], it’s an alarm name,” says Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now directs Flock’s drone program. “It’s nonetheless the identical kind of response.”
Kauffman walked by way of how the drone program would possibly work within the case of retail theft: If the safety crew at a retailer like Dwelling Depot, for instance, noticed shoplifters go away the shop, then the drone, outfitted with cameras, may very well be activated from its docking station on the roof.
“The drone follows the individuals. The individuals get in a automobile. You click on a button,” he says, “and also you observe the automobile with the drone, and the drone simply follows the automobile.”
The video feed of that drone would possibly go to the corporate’s safety crew, nevertheless it is also robotically transmitted on to police departments.
