Ansur BirdEye, a new company wholly-owned by Ansur, will continue Scandicraft’s development work, in conjunction with Ansur’s real-time remote monitoring technology, to provide security services and companies operating in remote areas with a cost-effective and reliable way of monitoring operations, a statement said.
Ansur BirdEye microdrones are small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be used to monitor a wide range of circumstances, including crowds, facility perimeters and remote pipelines or power cables.
Combined with Ansur’s ASIGN technology, which enables the real-time, rapid and reliable transfer of high definition images and video, and other sensory information, the UAVs are the equivalent of using a manned aircraft but at significantly lower cost, the company says.
Dr. Harald Skinnemoen, chairman and managing director of Ansur, said: “We have been working with Scandicraft on a number of projects, including the real-time inspections of power lines for Trondheim Energi, one of Norway’s main power suppliers.
“This acquisition puts us in a position to develop the UAV’s real-time monitoring capabilities further and we have already had interest from police, military and security companies.
“There is no question that the interest in Ansur BirdEye derives from the fact that we can now provide the same quality monitoring as traditional methods, such as helicopters, but at a very small fraction of the cost.”
Modem or phone
The integration of ASIGN into Ansur BirdEye UAVs, which are manufactured by Microdrone GmbH of Germany, involves attaching either an ICE modem to the UAV, or an Android mobile phone.
Using the modem, images are transmitted from the UAV’s camera using the CDMA 450 MHz frequency.
However, an Android phone can send the data either through the mobile phone network or via satellite. This means real-time data is available in remote areas where there is no terrestrial network, or in circumstances when the terrestrial network has been disabled.
Of particular interest to security companies, Ansur BirdEye UAV’s can be used to provide real-time perimeter monitoring.
The microdrones are stored in specially designed hangars, which can be positioned in sensitive areas.
When an alarm is triggered, the UAV launches automatically, in under 90 seconds, and flies to the relevant location, transmitting visual data throughout the flight. It returns to the hangar once the mission is complete.
This means a situation can be monitored without delay and security personnel need be deployed only if necessary.
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