21-02-2016, 02:07 PM
Was at a utility convention in the US, and some of the exhibitors were commercial survey or UAV vendors.
The displayed commercial-grade equipment was incredible the chopper in the pics was powered by fuelcells, and would fly for hour. The pic of the tv screens, is a shot inside a large van used as a mobile surveillance command centre. Basically this thing rocks up to say a school shooting (seriously, that was the example they used!!). A 40foot extendible pole comes out the top of van, with aerials, tv cameras on it, it launches a handful of multi rotors all with hirez cameras, that go to fixed locations/alt and become viewing platforms. All the video comes back to the screens in the van, so within 10mins of arriving on scene every angle they want is covered, the tech and video quality was amazing. most of the multis could stay on station for 45-90mins, single charge. The left most one on the table (pic) guy said could operate in upto 55mph winds and was worth about US$70k... serious tech!
The displayed commercial-grade equipment was incredible the chopper in the pics was powered by fuelcells, and would fly for hour. The pic of the tv screens, is a shot inside a large van used as a mobile surveillance command centre. Basically this thing rocks up to say a school shooting (seriously, that was the example they used!!). A 40foot extendible pole comes out the top of van, with aerials, tv cameras on it, it launches a handful of multi rotors all with hirez cameras, that go to fixed locations/alt and become viewing platforms. All the video comes back to the screens in the van, so within 10mins of arriving on scene every angle they want is covered, the tech and video quality was amazing. most of the multis could stay on station for 45-90mins, single charge. The left most one on the table (pic) guy said could operate in upto 55mph winds and was worth about US$70k... serious tech!