Creepy Neighbor Surveillance Drone

In response to the comments of the form "just install PTZ cameras", I have done an installation like this for a modest-sized site, and it is extremely difficult and time consuming (+ expensive) to install enough cameras to cover the site if you want any chance of actually recognising a face or a numberplate. If all you want to know is: "blob detected at rear gate", it's of course a lot easier, but then you might as well use a PIR sensor.

The problem is mapping a 3D space, where a 'perp' can often face in any direction, onto a series of 2D planes. PTZ cameras only help if they are meticulously programmed to track movement or respond to motion events from other sources, or you have a skilled operator 24x7.

It's even harder if the system needs to work well at night, since it requires either IR or visible light illumination.

I don't know how well this drone+sensors setup would work, but can definitely imagine there is a subset of the market where this would be better than fixed cameras, perhaps a large property where there are multiple entrances and exits, and lots of potential targets. e.g. a farm, where there are long easily traversed boundaries between the property and neighbouring properties.

Just another step down the slippery slope to the Slaughterbot. https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU

How would this deal with strong winds and torrential rain? Probably not good.

They have a video of it flying in a "snowstorm" that's just mild snowfall and hardly any wind.

Also, this thing itself would be a target for thieves. I don't see how this would be beneficial. Static or PTZ cams are easier and more weatherproof.

And yeah creepy. Although not as much as a manually controlled one I guess. As far as I understand this thing icky reacts to motion detected by it's "sunflowers"

Perhaps this is only creepy for people who live in close proximity to those who implement these. I'd be lying if I said I would be perfectly okay with a next door neighbor deploying this. However, I image this being very useful & reasonable for anyone with more than an acre of land.

Always on sensors called "sunflowers"? "The hive"? Did they try to go for the most "dystopian novel"-like names? :D

That opening mechanism of the "Hive" looks really nice, though.

Someone looked long enough at the solution, Drones, and came up with an imagined problem, real time overhead surveillance of your property, to solve.

Why just have sensors and cameras covering the entire property when you can have that as well as real time air surveilence.

It seems interesting.

Not necessarily "creepy" IMHO, only it would most probably cost a zillion dollars to do seemingly the same things a set of cameras would (maybe less false alarms?).

It seems to me like an outdoor version of the Ring Security Drone (Ring Always Home Cam), video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jFN_QEcS4

If my neighbor got this i would call the cops every day until its gone