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Agreed, I too had this same idea! So many security guards are paid to patrol parking lots. This could be cheaper and way more effective.
by ohitsdom 10y ago
Agreed, I too had this same idea! So many security guards are paid to patrol parking lots. This could be cheaper and way more effective.
- ThomPete 10y agoCould even be used as first responder to even figure out if you needed to send someone. With infared and camera it would be very easy.
- dragonwriter 10y agoSecurity guards are paid to patrol parking lots because experience has shown that the presence of human security guards patrolling the parking lots reduces crime, even compared to comprehensive and visible remote monitoring with obvious (and advertised) cameras. I'm not sure putting the cameras on drones changes the psychology that leads to this effect.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoOn top of that, I wonder if its effectiveness will be impacted by the fact that destroying a drone and attacking/killing a human have different, legal consequences. Crooks sabotage equipment a lot more than they attack people. Quite a few ways to shoot down or disrupt drones appearing online. Might go from hearing how crooks spraypainted cameras to how they paintballed the slow-moving, predictable drone.
- ThomPete 10y agoSure but there are many other situations for instance first responder which allow for best allocation of human guards by being able to better monitor where they should be.
- dragonwriter 10y agoOh, sure, and I don't mean to imply that security drones don't have plausible value in some circumstances, I was just addressing the one specific and significant aspect of the "security guards paid to patrol parking lots" scenario...
- gmarx 10y agoWhat they need is a bad-ass looking ground robot