I’m helping out my local police department and Sheriff’s Office to find drones for use in their operations. Currently, they have no drone. I’ve been told as a member of LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) that there are two drones available in 6 counties (2 of the counties own them but are shared with others) for emergencies. No one in the Sheriff’s office or Emergency Management Agency are FAA 107 Pilots. Since the agencies do not have this important tech in their arsenal, guess who gets called? Me. I’m not upset about it because I know them all quite well and am more than willing to serve, but I think they would do better to have their own. In the last week alone I been out for tornado damage and a body search in one of the rivers.
After having live service of a drone, which proved much better than the demonstration they were shown by a salesman (the drone took off and crashed into the brick jail! It was very embarrassing for the guy.), they are ready to look for a drone and training, and asked if I could help them.
Of course money is always a concern in small towns and the sparsely populated county.
Their purpose is like most others in the Law Enforcement arena - search & rescue, river searches, surveillance over large events, and possibly being able to send a drone up as a first responder to emergencies, Fire, and flooding. This county is very flat in Ohio. You can see for a great distance at 400’ in the air.
They would like to be able to:
Budget: Mavic 2 Enterprise Duel, case, Fly More + batteries, Care Refresh, several 128GB MicroSD Cards, iPad Mini 5, Apple 4k TV (for airplay during flight), 55” 4K TV, ASUS RT-AC68U router,
Budget 2: Mavic 2 Enterprise - the camera can zoom and would be helpful for searches.
Best: Matrice 210 v2, Zenmuse Z30, 55” 4K TV, ASUS RT-AC68U router,
The budget system is great because it has the thermal Camera built in which is great for searches, spotlight and the speaker. Unfortunately the camera doesn’t zoom and it’s only 12MP.
I also think the DJI Flight Hub software is included and can program the flights in a computer. The Mavic 2 folds up and stores so small that it can easily be kept in a cruiser, even the charging station can be mounted with 4 batteries, then quickly deployed to an area. You can easily get both "budget" drones for much less and get good features and gives a backup.
The high end system will cost upwards of $40,000 and there are several advantages, but I’m not sure it’s worth it: water resistance for less than ideal conditions, 30x zoom lens - it looks really good, The drone also has the ability to change out the camera and have multiple cameras. The liability here is it’s size. It pretty much requires two people to unload and setup to fly.
This is my initial thoughts that I know works.
Can the feed from Airplay - or another be recorded to be able to look back later? I don’t think the iPad Mini 5 can record and Airplay at the same time.
The processor in the Mini is very good and now the screen has some kind of anti-glare coating. It’s also 10% brighter than the 4.
I know the goggles can also connect to the TV but I don’t think the signal is that great for much distance.
Is there a better option for sending the video signal to the TV and recording?
I want to know your thoughts and recommendations on these?
After having live service of a drone, which proved much better than the demonstration they were shown by a salesman (the drone took off and crashed into the brick jail! It was very embarrassing for the guy.), they are ready to look for a drone and training, and asked if I could help them.
Of course money is always a concern in small towns and the sparsely populated county.
Their purpose is like most others in the Law Enforcement arena - search & rescue, river searches, surveillance over large events, and possibly being able to send a drone up as a first responder to emergencies, Fire, and flooding. This county is very flat in Ohio. You can see for a great distance at 400’ in the air.
They would like to be able to:
- Program/Setup flights from a computer for immediate searches already programmed for places like the rivers.
- Pilot outdoors while sent to their portable command center with a large screen TV
Budget: Mavic 2 Enterprise Duel, case, Fly More + batteries, Care Refresh, several 128GB MicroSD Cards, iPad Mini 5, Apple 4k TV (for airplay during flight), 55” 4K TV, ASUS RT-AC68U router,
Budget 2: Mavic 2 Enterprise - the camera can zoom and would be helpful for searches.
Best: Matrice 210 v2, Zenmuse Z30, 55” 4K TV, ASUS RT-AC68U router,
The budget system is great because it has the thermal Camera built in which is great for searches, spotlight and the speaker. Unfortunately the camera doesn’t zoom and it’s only 12MP.
I also think the DJI Flight Hub software is included and can program the flights in a computer. The Mavic 2 folds up and stores so small that it can easily be kept in a cruiser, even the charging station can be mounted with 4 batteries, then quickly deployed to an area. You can easily get both "budget" drones for much less and get good features and gives a backup.
The high end system will cost upwards of $40,000 and there are several advantages, but I’m not sure it’s worth it: water resistance for less than ideal conditions, 30x zoom lens - it looks really good, The drone also has the ability to change out the camera and have multiple cameras. The liability here is it’s size. It pretty much requires two people to unload and setup to fly.
This is my initial thoughts that I know works.
Can the feed from Airplay - or another be recorded to be able to look back later? I don’t think the iPad Mini 5 can record and Airplay at the same time.
The processor in the Mini is very good and now the screen has some kind of anti-glare coating. It’s also 10% brighter than the 4.
I know the goggles can also connect to the TV but I don’t think the signal is that great for much distance.
Is there a better option for sending the video signal to the TV and recording?
I want to know your thoughts and recommendations on these?