{"id":1842,"date":"2011-03-30T16:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ipcamerasupply.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2011-03-30T16:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:03:14","slug":"microcopter-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/microcopter-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Microcopter Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20110330\/BUSINESS\/103300331\/Master-s-degree-project-designed-surveillance?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Cimg%7CHome%7Cp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;border: 1px solid black;margin: 3px\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.floridatoday.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=A9&amp;Date=20110330&amp;Category=BUSINESS&amp;ArtNo=103300331&amp;Ref=AR&amp;MaxW=640&amp;Border=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>Rising from the\u00a0ground using eight rotors, a micro-helicopter goes undetected to transmit GPS coordinates and images of sensitive locations to soldiers or SWAT team members ready to strike.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that microcopter surveillance in this age of UAV&#8217;s (unmanned aerial vehicles) being used by the Air Force and Navy doesn&#8217;t sound far-fetched, you&#8217;d be right.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0graduate student at Florida Tech is working on just that for his master&#8217;s degree project.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Master's degree project designed for surveillance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20110330\/BUSINESS\/103300331\/Master-s-degree-project-designed-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Lewis has strapped a smartphone to an Oktokopter<\/a>\u00a0that&#8217;s programmed to send video to a laptop that then calculates the\u00a0GPS coordinates of objects and people:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sounds pretty simple. The complicated part will be merging the video signal with a computer program so the coordinates can be viewed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There are a bunch of mathematical transformations that you have to make,&#8221; said Lewis, a licensed pilot. &#8220;I&#8217;m learning a lot about the geo-referencing program. I didn&#8217;t know a lot of the stuff about latitude and longitude conversions or aerial photography concepts.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lewis&#8217; work will be useful to Radiant Blue Technologies, a small defense contractor with an office and eight employees on East New Haven Avenue. Radiant Blue has funded the work by purchasing the $6,200, battery-powered microcopter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While this project definately has military and law enforcement potential, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20110330\/BUSINESS\/103300331\/Master-s-degree-project-designed-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Peterson of Florida Today<\/a>\u00a0states that unlike UAV&#8217;s it is also being viewed as a low-cost solution\u00a0for &#8220;security and surveillance, building and shoreline inspections, surveying, crop monitoring or inspection of nuclear power plants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising from the\u00a0ground using eight rotors, a micro-helicopter goes undetected to transmit GPS coordinates and images of sensitive locations to soldiers or SWAT team members ready to strike. If you think that microcopter surveillance in this age of UAV&#8217;s (unmanned aerial vehicles) being used by the Air Force and Navy doesn&#8217;t sound far-fetched, you&#8217;d be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/microcopter-surveillance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-intelligent-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/ip-camera-supply\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}