“As an alternative 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 may work within the case of retail theft: If the safety crew at a retailer like House Depot, for instance, noticed shoplifters depart the shop, then the drone, outfitted with cameras, might be activated from its docking station on the roof.
“The drone follows the folks. The folks 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 may go to the corporate’s safety crew, nevertheless it is also mechanically transmitted on to police departments.
