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2020-06-07

Keeping a Close Watch

Threod performs surveillance flights to detect emergency state violations and monitor borders

In Järva County, Estonia, the Police, together with specialists from the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences and Threod Systems, recently practiced the possibilities of using drones, and for the first time, flights were made over the cities with the Eos C aircraft specially adapted for surveillance.

Due to the spread of COVID-19, it is prohibited to gather in public places in the country. People are allowed in the streets in a group of two and the distance should be over 2m.

Police are constantly patrolling the streets but being able to see with a “birds eye” view would be a real advantage. It was, therefore, decided to launch this joint project and to use Threod drones to help investigate the cities for violations.

With Threod’s Eos C unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) organisations can investigate large territories; it’s flight radius is up to 100 km combined with a flight time of many hours in the air.

Threod’s mobile command centre built into a custom mini van was used for the operation. It is equipped with necessary communications solutions, enables convenient operation of the UAV and the payload, as well as receipt of live video stream and data processing software, that ensures prompt decision-making. The operation was successful, and cooperation will continue.

Monitoring Borders

The 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Defense Forces recently supported the Police and Border Guard Board by monitoring Estonia’s southern border with a Stream C UAS, produced by Threod Systems to enable the detection of illegal border crossing attempts.

The Defense Forces launched Threod’s unmanned aircraft near Antsla to conduct surveillance rounds over the closed southern Estonian border due to the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. The flight was conducted in order to test the ability of the Defense Forces, the Police and Border Guard Board to share air footage and act upon the data gathered.

In order to carry out the operation, a mobile communication centre had been set up in the vicinity of the airport in the village of Lusti, from where the aircraft was launched. Then the image and video data gathered by the UAV was analysed and processed.

The Stream C UAV is able to ascend to a height of over three kilometres, has a petrol engine and can stay in the air for up to eight hours, sending real-time video stream to the control centre that is over a hundred kilometres away.

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