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after 43 arrests. Mr Brown noted that the Metropolitan Police has a larger and longer distance aerosol that helped them to cut the crime rates by 38.5% between February and May this year. Mr Brown concluded by providing
examples of other uses and applications, including those against trespassing (small beads on the floor mark shoes or tyres); waste crime (such as a partnership with the Environment Agency to mark waste bales that ‘dramatically reduced’ incidents); public order (an adjusted paintball gun can be used to mark rioters); and canine detection (sniffer dogs have been trained to detect and find marked property).
Drone applications
Iprosurv’s Shane Jones said that the last decade has seen huge advances in technology and stability, and that there are expected to be 76,000 commercial drones in the UK by 2030, with 629,000 people employed and a market value of £42.5bn. The UK is by far the biggest importer, with 33.9% of the market, and ‘significant increases’ mean more licences are required, as applications are seeing a 52% year on year growth, though Mr Jones highlighted the issues facing the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which licenses commercial drones for use. He was also keen to state differences
between the commercial drones the company uses and ‘hobby’ drones, with the former being geofenced to prevent them reaching important locations, unlike the latter. Commercial drones can cost between £5,000 and £120,000, while hobby drones can be purchased for less than a few hundred pounds. Insurance is a small ‘but changing’
market with $6.5bn of the global sector, and Mr Jones discussed the company’s main customer brackets, including utilities such as power stations, oil rigs, wind turbines and train networks. Its drones look for defects with thermal cameras, but no data is analysed by the company unless requested, Mr Jones calling the drones the ‘tool in the box’. Potential insurance uses include claims
footage, post claims, surge in terms of floods, contractor auditing, pre risks and escape of water, while ground penetrating radar could also prove useful.
Construction uses include land mapping
of large sites, facilities and project management, site auditing, overlaid project updates and analytics, with ground levels studied via mapping.
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The drones map thousands of pictures
taken within the software, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) featuring built in algorithms to detect corrosion or faults. A 3D model allows access to each individual image and the option to comment and see volumetric measurements, while a cost analysis tool and building algorithm are available. AI can also flag up points of interest or anomalies, though is more effective with newer sites. In terms of ‘near future impact’, the ‘future depends on you’, Mr Jones said, showcasing diverse uses including defibrillator drones, drones flying blood samples, and a solar powered drone providing 5G internet. The European Aviation Safety Agency will, from July 2019, require drones over £250,000 to be registered, and Mr Jones outlined regulations and tests to pass for operators. The company’s Greg Gladwell added
that drones are becoming ‘quicker, better and cheaper’, with new use cases or users each month in ‘unexpected guises’. For insurers, drones can refly over areas ‘at different times for different perspectives’, provide mid claims inspections to ‘keep on track’ and final claims inspections to ‘see how it has gone’. He warned that technological changes are ‘happening now’, this being a risk for insurers not involved, as the industry is ‘picking up pace’
William Roszczyk is editor of Fire & Risk Management. For more information, view page 5
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