Drones
Security and innovation are increasingly important in an ever-changing world. Swisscom Broadcast focuses on digital approaches to physical security and, with its perimeter protection using automated drone flights, is launching an efficient solution on the market.
Various security measures and systems are usually deployed to protect the perimeter of mission-critical production facilities and large sites. The key objectives of perimeter protection are to prevent unauthorised access, identify potential threats and stop intruders from entering protected areas. In practice, this primarily means the use of video cameras and/or security officers, sometimes with dogs.
The perimeter protection solution of the future, which is already here, is digitised and deploys drones. You decide whether drone surveillance flights are scheduled or triggered by events.
How does event-based drone surveillance work? A video camera, photoelectric sensor or other sensor triggers an alarm which launches a drone. It automatically flies from its dock and, thanks to our ground risk assessment, takes the safe route to the alarm location. There it verifies whether the alarm was triggered by a human or, for example, a nocturnal animal that poses no threat to the perimeter. Depending on the result of the AI-assisted image analysis, the Operation Control Center either avoids a false alarm or alerts the police or security service who then deal with the attempted crime.
BernExpo is a pioneer in innovation and digitisation. So it will not come as much surprise that it was also the first Swiss company to implement Swisscom Broadcast’s automated perimeter protection. A drone currently flies over the BernExpo site four times a day. All drone flights are operated beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) by the Swisscom Operational Center and monitored via screen.
Authorisation from FOCA is required to fly drones commercially without visual contact. To obtain this authorisation, strict conditions must be met. These include the requirement that the drones always have a secure connection. Swisscom Broadcast has specific tools and platforms to calculate and predict the quality of our mobile communications for each drone flight path. In addition, the risks on the ground and in the air must be minimised. Thanks to aggregated anonymised Swisscom mobile phone data, we can predict the density of people on the flight path. Using our Airscout solution, we can monitor the airspace to prevent collisions with other aerial vehicles.
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