In the past years, we have solved many security challenges by adding more people utilizing simple technologies to secure our critical infrastructure. At the same time, robotics has concurred to automation of production lines and indoor facilities; we have continued to solve our outdoor challenges by deploying more people and adding more security cameras. But the time has come to change how we approach outdoor security tasks like perimeter patrol.

Now drones & robots are here to help automate simple security tasks like perimeter patrol and monitoring of extensive facilities. Drones and robots are here to patrol outdoors, while we can keep people indoors to monitor automated perimeter patrols.

Most drone operations are performed by an operator close to the drone and in the visual line of sight.

“Getting eyes on the ground and eyes in the air to monitor our critical infrastructure is a manpower-intensive task that we need to automate by implementing smart technologies like Drone and robot guards to monitor and get insights before we risk sending in people. With the Lorenz Control Room software, you can be far away from the drone, monitoring from the control room or even monitoring many drones in operation simultaneously from one centralized control room. All drones and robots can be monitored with real time streaming in the control room, allowing experts to contribute even though they are hundreds of kilometers away, observing and helping people on the ground”, Skaarup said.

Protecting our critical infrastructure with intelligent technologies like drones and robots is the way to automate our security processes and keep the infrastructure intact to the benefit of all EU citizens.