Drone Surveillance System

Aerial security means performing security-aimed monitoring and surveillance operations with the help of airborne vehicles. This kind of activities suggest that human officers (security organizations, law enforcement, police etc.) would be able to remotely monitor and view video and data acquired fro

Project Title

Drone Surveillance System

Project Area of Specialization

Cyber Security

Project Summary

Aerial security means performing security-aimed monitoring and surveillance operations with the help of airborne vehicles. This kind of activities suggest that human officers (security organizations, law enforcement, police etc.) would be able to remotely monitor and view video and data acquired from Drones while planning and evaluating their operations. The spectrum of applications where drones are used for security purposes is vast: scouting and reporting emergencies, monitoring accidents and crimes, surveillance of a certain landscape area, operating in highly busy and pedestrians as well as their tracking from up in the sky, and so on. The project will serve as a bridge to connect actual happening in areas that cannot be navigated easily by security personnel of corporate institution as the Drone will be used to hover and record the actual happening as it transmit to a ground station which records and analyses the events as they streams in, also due its capability of flying over different altitudes the drone can generally be used on areas with rugged terrains or over water bodies for a time dependent on its power capacity.

Project Objectives

The project aims at strengthening the capacity within Alhamd Islamic University to address the societal needs by establishing an interdisciplinary platform for the development and application of autonomous drone systems for a variety of societal sectors. Within the platform, the aim is to connect and tie together established technology development (e.g. robotics, AI, image processing), research application (e.g. remote sensing and the study of cultural heritage) and applications in different societal sectors (e.g. forestry, agriculture, energy, construction, rescue operations) to make them inform of each other in a collaborative learning environment and create new synergies. We also aim to incorporate and integrate user views and perspectives to enable the development of knowledge and innovation directed towards private companies as well as the public sector. The project is expected to result in an increased network of collaborating partners, interdisciplinary grants for research and demonstrable applications for autonomous drone operations in the selected areas

Project Implementation Method

The drone platform implemented follows the specifications of the drone described in the deliverables. which are themselves based on the requirements from the media partners. These requirements are detailed in deliverable. More generally, the design of the drone was established by collecting specifications and wishes from all the partners and sorted by their significance and taking into consideration national and European regulations. Several proposals have been formulated with different compromises. This part will describe the hardware of the drone platform to have an overview of it and a better understanding for the system integration and testing. A more detailed description can be found in the deliverable . The functional requirements of the partners were synthesised and translated into technical specifications. Components were found to comply with these specifications, which resulted in having estimated weight and size of the drone as well as its flight time. After looking to the current technologies, their weight and their prices, it was found that the requirements are diverging: having all the components required in the range of the quality desired is not compatible with the wished price and the size/weight of the drone. The weight and the size of the drone are linked. Generally speaking, the bigger the drone is, the more it can carry and is heavier. The guidelines of the proposals are the choice of the lightest components, the total cost, a flight duration of at least 15 min in an ideal scenario. Different proposals were made and are mainly about different configurations to have different weights and prices. The wish to have high-end components was restrained by the costs of these devices, as the overall drone budget could be much higher than the estimated cost from the description of actions if all these highend components were chosen. The choice of the component was also restrained by the wish to have a not too big drone, and not too heavy drone. 

Benefits of the Project

Remote Monitoring

Drones in security applications contain a unique ability to access distant and difficult to reach locations more quickly than hired personnel. This is particularly useful when staff security is limited within facilities such as large plant operations or areas containing expensive inventory at a distance.

Low Light Operations

The introduction of FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed) and other night vision imaging utilities in addition to their reduction in price over the last few years has removed the limitation of after dark surveillance for security teams. Competitively priced drones come equipped with night vision optics allowing facility security to monitor darkened areas from a fixed location.

Quiet

New drones designed for security often include vibration dampening and brushless motors, cutting the noise levels to roughly half of sound other drones produce. Reduced noise provides a clear advantage when monitoring is called for in response to intrusions at or around a given facility.

Rapid Response

Drone operation provides another substantial benefit when security personnel are called to respond to distant locations. Traditional response taking ten minutes or more may allow an intruding party to exit a scene unidentified, resulting in loss and a missed opportunity for apprehension. Drone coverage in a fraction of that time presents a much greater possibility of evidence gathering and potential arrest.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The project will face this challenge by developing a compositional and integrated

drone embedded reference architecture following the IMA principles, adapted to, and still considering,

the drone resource constraints.

6.2.2.1 Processing Partitioning

The main idea is to place functional modules (applications) on processing modules partitioned with

respect to space (resource partitioning) and time (temporal partitioning). Resource partitioning allocates

memory and I/O resources in a static manner via configuration tables (contracts), which guarantee

protection against any modification from other partitions. Temporal partitioning defines a periodic

sequence of slots, statically organized in a time frame, so that functional modules are periodically

executed at fixed times.

6.2.2.2 Communication Partitioning

Communication between function modules (applications) will be placed on shared networks. Like in

processing partitioning, communication is divided into virtual links, with a bounded bandwidth, dedicated

to the traffic from single applications. This guarantees that no function can use the network beyond its

contract.

Applications implement services hosted on the platform partitions. The platform offers basic services

such as scheduling, communications, health monitoring, among others. In this way, applications can be

potentially moved to new platforms with minimal changes to the code. Similarly, a specific platform can

be used to support multiple different applications with slight changes. This approach requires of course

an important change in the design paradigm for all engineering parties to switch from a pure “top-down”

approach (with upper-level design decisions) to a different approach in which applications must use

existing platform services. This is why engineering tools are needed.

6.2.2.4 Standardized Interfaces

In order to enable this level of portability, it is necessary to harmonize the platform definition and the

API to integrate applications in the partitions of this platform. Standardized APIs enable technology

transparency and avoid any impact on an application either during development or execution.

6.2.2.5 Expected Benefits

By following the above principles, drone surveillance  pursues the following specific objectives:

 Incremental assurance. Applications sharing the same platform can be qualified independently

and changes to one will not impact the assurance achieved by others, as long as the platform

resources allocation is not modified. The scope of re-verification is well-defined and bounded in

case the platform resource allocation and contract are modified. The same applies in case the

platform design is modified (additional services, improved performances, obsolescence

management).

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Media , Security , Telecommunication

Core Technology

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Other Technologies

Robotics

Sustainable Development Goals

Peace and Justice Strong Institutions, Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Required Resources

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