good afternoon everyone my name is Eric
Hernando I actually wear a few hats I’m
a detective with the Holmdel Police
Department I’ve been a volunteer
firefighter for a bunch of years I’m
also home dell’s emergency management
coordinator about a year ago I started
home bells drone program we have that
I’m aware of the first drone program in
the area but like I said it’s only been
up for about a year and so I like to get
out and talk to people about the program
I think it’s exciting it’s new
technology but what I found is that when
I tell people about the program they
kind of get skeptical you know what are
the cops using these drones for I’ve
also found that after just a few minutes
of explaining exactly what we’re using
it for they walk away seeing the value
and the benefit to the community so that
being said I appreciate the opportunity
to speak with you today and hopefully in
the next 15 minutes I can convince you
of the same okay just a little bit about
history drones have been around for a
long time they have military origins and
I would say in the past in the last six
years technology has taken drones to a
whole new level
drones are now able to stay up in the
air for upwards of 20 minutes and the
video that we’re getting from these
obviously aerial photographers and
videographers became interested in them
okay a lot of hobbyist
anyone and the audience have their own
drone anyone okay a lot of hobby drones
out there commercial uses and finally
public safety okay
police departments fire department
search-and-rescue teams who really see
the value of a drone the FAA said that
currently there’s only about a thousand
drones being utilized by police and fire
departments around the nation which only
constitutes about one to two percent of
the total number of public safety
agencies
so just base on that number okay it’s
clear
that drone use by Public Safety is in
its infancy okay but you’re gonna see
that change one of the reasons we love
the drones is the cost factor
hey as you can see up on the screen the
cost to purchase and maintain a drone
versus a helicopter which is basically
what we’re replacing is tremendous okay
I mean vastly of a vast difference
training it only takes a couple months
and five hundred about five hundred
dollars to train a drone pilot where it
takes months and months of training and
thousands of dollars to train a
helicopter pilot finally deployment time
if I get called to a scene I could have
my drone up in the air and transmitting
video in under five minutes if I were to
ask for a helicopter it would be at
least an hour to get that thing there
so I know I’ve been called it a journal
for the past few minutes we actually
refer to it as a UAV which is an acronym
for an unmanned aerial vehicle and the
FAA said it’s basically an aircraft
operated without the possibility of
human intervention either within or on
the aircraft okay so that’s pretty
self-explanatory two types of drones out
there you have a fixed-wing drone which
resembles an airplane and then a rotor
drone or a multi rotor drone which
resembles a helicopter I would say that
99% of drones and public safety or of
the rotor type so this is our drone it’s
called an inspire one it’s made by a
company called DJI they’re out of China
I would say they have the market share
of all the drones out there it’s doing
its little start-up weighs about seven
pounds can maximum altitude of about
1,600 feet does 49 miles an hour and a
range of about 1.2 miles okay so that’s
pretty substantial
as far as flight times we’re seeing
about twenty-two minutes average and
that’s gonna depend on how we fly the
drone all right if we just send it up
and let it hover it’s gonna be able to
stay up there a lot longer if we fly it
around a lot of movement that battery
time goes down some of the parts of the
drone we have a frame
alright the frame is going to depend on
the make and model of the drone that
you’re using okay this particular drone
is a quadcopter okay which means it has
four motors and four propellers right on
the back here you can see blinking green
is the battery that’s the power cell to
power the drone and then finally right
on the front is a 3-axis gimbal camera
and I’ll talk about the cameras in depth
in a minute big part of the system is of
what they call the ground control
station okay this is basically how the
pilot is going to control the drone okay
if we want to take off and land forwards
backwards sideways okay you see the
antennas on the back we control the
drone via the ground control station via
radio waves okay that’s how it works one
of the other things is the video
transmission right there’s a technology
called light bridge and occu sync which
provides real-time again almost
cinema-quality
real-time video from the drone to the
ground control station okay that’s an
actually yeah that’s actually what a
screenshot looks like of what the pilot
is looking at as you can see a pretty
good sized picture there along the top
it’s giving you flight status how many
satellites you’re connected to okay
because it does use GPS to position
along the right side or if there’s any
photographers here exposure for your
camera and video okay and along the
bottom some of the flight information
how far is it from the ground control
power source okay these drones use
lithium polymer batteries they typically
take about an hour to recharge and again
it’s an average about 22 minutes and
flight time we keep about eight of them
so we keep swapping them out and we can
charge them on scene cameras okay we can
actually interchange the cameras on
these drones most of the time we have
what they call a daytime zoom on the
drone and that’s gonna be again a three
axis gimbal which allows for stable
video that’s gonna take video anywhere
between 720p and 4k which is cinema
quality bottom right you have a thermal
camera we use this a lot for our
search-and-rescue missions that’s
obviously going to give you a thermal
picture if you have a bad guy who’s in a
field his heat signature is always gonna
be different from the background and
that’s how you get the picture the FAA
they obviously have control of all civil
aircraft and they do have say in any
drones used by Public Safety when I
apply for a program I have to get FAA
approval any town that wants to have a
program has to get FAA approval they
have pretty strict guidelines on
training and guidelines on use I told
you that my drone could go 1600 feet in
the air the FAA says I can only go 400
feet above ground level
in addition okay I told you can go 1.2
miles away again the FAA says that I
have to operate the drone was within
visual line of sight I have to make sure
I can see the drone at all times so I
can’t send it to miles away and operate
it right finally I have to use visual
observers okay just two more sets of
eyes on the drone and make sure it’s
safe so what type of missions do we do
we conduct this is just kind of a
snapshot of some of the missions that we
do and I’m going to show you
in a minute that kind of demonstrates
what kind of missions we go on but I
think more importantly is I want you to
realize what we’re not doing with the
drone right everyone wants to know you
know or the cops gonna spy on us with
this drone and the answer is absolutely
not
we will never send the drone up to just
do random surveillance in your
neighborhood you know check out what
you’re doing in your backyard the drone
will always be used for mission specific
reasons okay so if you take one thing
away it’s not to spying on anybody okay
so I’m gonna play a video and it’s
pretty cool it actually shows the UAV in
action and I’ll kind of narrate as it
[Music]
okay suspect apprehension okay a guy
robbed the bank
all right he flees into the woods we’re
probably gonna deploy the thermal camera
and we’ll be able to see where that
suspect is going day or night and direct
officers to apprehend that something
okay we have the capability of that to
attach searchlights
onto our drones okay again suspect
apprehension rescue search and rescue
here’s the first example of the thermal
technology or clear kind of see how the
person stands out against the background
because we’re detecting the heat
okay another example you have suspect
standing there I know if you can see it
with the long gun he really stands out
there’s different settings on the
thermal camera but the drone directs the
police officer in and he’s able to make
the apprehension we actually can lift
things with our drone our drone can lift
up to eight pounds in this example
they’re lifting a life jacket someone
that can’t be reached
we’ve lifted cellphones to a barricaded
subject there’s a lot of uses for
lifting okay
search-and-rescue team is using the
drill to lift align to a victim and here
firefighters are lifting a SCP a bottle
a breathing apparatus bottle to a
firefighter
okay again search-and-rescue I think
this is a down south and some flooding
throws will be in use down there to
locate victims who expanded on their
rooms or in trees here they’re using
their day like samurai would probably
have my thermal camera out for this
mission okay this is just a view of what
the Joe looks like there’s like fire
monitoring it’s used okay especially
wildfires incident commanders can put
the drone up and see where the fire is
which way it’s going and that will help
them direct their resources to the right
spot and the void people get hurt
[Music]
you will see I mean the perspective you
get is amazing
[Music]
I know they’re showing this fire video
with a date on camera but a lot of times
we use our thermal camera for fire
scenes it can actually help you see hot
spots in the structure right again the
fire chief on location can redirect his
water speeds the more officials put out
and a minute till show what a fire looks
like from a thermal camera tremendous
asset
[Music]
so yeah there it is that’s a thermal
view of a fire you can see it really
stands out
as you could actually see up in the top
right-hand corner where it’s a lot
hotter where the red skip the orange
gets really great kid you can see hot
spots here
I know FDNY just bought a couple real
nice drones where this is that purpose
[Music]
right on the emergency management side
if there’s a disaster emergency matters
want to know what type of damage there
is flooding our houses destroyed we
could send a UAV up in the air get
really good damage assessment
this looks like another
that’s our inspired one they’re being
used all over the world I heard about a
story they’re actually using upon the
beach by the lifeguards and they’re
actually dropping life preservers out to
drowning victims so I mean the uses are
endless so hopefully you’ve taken away
that we’re not going to be using them to
spy on you and it’s actually gonna be a
really great thing for the community
thank you very much [Applause]
Hernando I actually wear a few hats I’m
a detective with the Holmdel Police
Department I’ve been a volunteer
firefighter for a bunch of years I’m
also home dell’s emergency management
coordinator about a year ago I started
home bells drone program we have that
I’m aware of the first drone program in
the area but like I said it’s only been
up for about a year and so I like to get
out and talk to people about the program
I think it’s exciting it’s new
technology but what I found is that when
I tell people about the program they
kind of get skeptical you know what are
the cops using these drones for I’ve
also found that after just a few minutes
of explaining exactly what we’re using
it for they walk away seeing the value
and the benefit to the community so that
being said I appreciate the opportunity
to speak with you today and hopefully in
the next 15 minutes I can convince you
of the same okay just a little bit about
history drones have been around for a
long time they have military origins and
I would say in the past in the last six
years technology has taken drones to a
whole new level
drones are now able to stay up in the
air for upwards of 20 minutes and the
video that we’re getting from these
obviously aerial photographers and
videographers became interested in them
okay a lot of hobbyist
anyone and the audience have their own
drone anyone okay a lot of hobby drones
out there commercial uses and finally
public safety okay
police departments fire department
search-and-rescue teams who really see
the value of a drone the FAA said that
currently there’s only about a thousand
drones being utilized by police and fire
departments around the nation which only
constitutes about one to two percent of
the total number of public safety
agencies
so just base on that number okay it’s
clear
that drone use by Public Safety is in
its infancy okay but you’re gonna see
that change one of the reasons we love
the drones is the cost factor
hey as you can see up on the screen the
cost to purchase and maintain a drone
versus a helicopter which is basically
what we’re replacing is tremendous okay
I mean vastly of a vast difference
training it only takes a couple months
and five hundred about five hundred
dollars to train a drone pilot where it
takes months and months of training and
thousands of dollars to train a
helicopter pilot finally deployment time
if I get called to a scene I could have
my drone up in the air and transmitting
video in under five minutes if I were to
ask for a helicopter it would be at
least an hour to get that thing there
so I know I’ve been called it a journal
for the past few minutes we actually
refer to it as a UAV which is an acronym
for an unmanned aerial vehicle and the
FAA said it’s basically an aircraft
operated without the possibility of
human intervention either within or on
the aircraft okay so that’s pretty
self-explanatory two types of drones out
there you have a fixed-wing drone which
resembles an airplane and then a rotor
drone or a multi rotor drone which
resembles a helicopter I would say that
99% of drones and public safety or of
the rotor type so this is our drone it’s
called an inspire one it’s made by a
company called DJI they’re out of China
I would say they have the market share
of all the drones out there it’s doing
its little start-up weighs about seven
pounds can maximum altitude of about
1,600 feet does 49 miles an hour and a
range of about 1.2 miles okay so that’s
pretty substantial
as far as flight times we’re seeing
about twenty-two minutes average and
that’s gonna depend on how we fly the
drone all right if we just send it up
and let it hover it’s gonna be able to
stay up there a lot longer if we fly it
around a lot of movement that battery
time goes down some of the parts of the
drone we have a frame
alright the frame is going to depend on
the make and model of the drone that
you’re using okay this particular drone
is a quadcopter okay which means it has
four motors and four propellers right on
the back here you can see blinking green
is the battery that’s the power cell to
power the drone and then finally right
on the front is a 3-axis gimbal camera
and I’ll talk about the cameras in depth
in a minute big part of the system is of
what they call the ground control
station okay this is basically how the
pilot is going to control the drone okay
if we want to take off and land forwards
backwards sideways okay you see the
antennas on the back we control the
drone via the ground control station via
radio waves okay that’s how it works one
of the other things is the video
transmission right there’s a technology
called light bridge and occu sync which
provides real-time again almost
cinema-quality
real-time video from the drone to the
ground control station okay that’s an
actually yeah that’s actually what a
screenshot looks like of what the pilot
is looking at as you can see a pretty
good sized picture there along the top
it’s giving you flight status how many
satellites you’re connected to okay
because it does use GPS to position
along the right side or if there’s any
photographers here exposure for your
camera and video okay and along the
bottom some of the flight information
how far is it from the ground control
power source okay these drones use
lithium polymer batteries they typically
take about an hour to recharge and again
it’s an average about 22 minutes and
flight time we keep about eight of them
so we keep swapping them out and we can
charge them on scene cameras okay we can
actually interchange the cameras on
these drones most of the time we have
what they call a daytime zoom on the
drone and that’s gonna be again a three
axis gimbal which allows for stable
video that’s gonna take video anywhere
between 720p and 4k which is cinema
quality bottom right you have a thermal
camera we use this a lot for our
search-and-rescue missions that’s
obviously going to give you a thermal
picture if you have a bad guy who’s in a
field his heat signature is always gonna
be different from the background and
that’s how you get the picture the FAA
they obviously have control of all civil
aircraft and they do have say in any
drones used by Public Safety when I
apply for a program I have to get FAA
approval any town that wants to have a
program has to get FAA approval they
have pretty strict guidelines on
training and guidelines on use I told
you that my drone could go 1600 feet in
the air the FAA says I can only go 400
feet above ground level
in addition okay I told you can go 1.2
miles away again the FAA says that I
have to operate the drone was within
visual line of sight I have to make sure
I can see the drone at all times so I
can’t send it to miles away and operate
it right finally I have to use visual
observers okay just two more sets of
eyes on the drone and make sure it’s
safe so what type of missions do we do
we conduct this is just kind of a
snapshot of some of the missions that we
do and I’m going to show you
in a minute that kind of demonstrates
what kind of missions we go on but I
think more importantly is I want you to
realize what we’re not doing with the
drone right everyone wants to know you
know or the cops gonna spy on us with
this drone and the answer is absolutely
not
we will never send the drone up to just
do random surveillance in your
neighborhood you know check out what
you’re doing in your backyard the drone
will always be used for mission specific
reasons okay so if you take one thing
away it’s not to spying on anybody okay
so I’m gonna play a video and it’s
pretty cool it actually shows the UAV in
action and I’ll kind of narrate as it
[Music]
okay suspect apprehension okay a guy
robbed the bank
all right he flees into the woods we’re
probably gonna deploy the thermal camera
and we’ll be able to see where that
suspect is going day or night and direct
officers to apprehend that something
okay we have the capability of that to
attach searchlights
onto our drones okay again suspect
apprehension rescue search and rescue
here’s the first example of the thermal
technology or clear kind of see how the
person stands out against the background
because we’re detecting the heat
okay another example you have suspect
standing there I know if you can see it
with the long gun he really stands out
there’s different settings on the
thermal camera but the drone directs the
police officer in and he’s able to make
the apprehension we actually can lift
things with our drone our drone can lift
up to eight pounds in this example
they’re lifting a life jacket someone
that can’t be reached
we’ve lifted cellphones to a barricaded
subject there’s a lot of uses for
lifting okay
search-and-rescue team is using the
drill to lift align to a victim and here
firefighters are lifting a SCP a bottle
a breathing apparatus bottle to a
firefighter
okay again search-and-rescue I think
this is a down south and some flooding
throws will be in use down there to
locate victims who expanded on their
rooms or in trees here they’re using
their day like samurai would probably
have my thermal camera out for this
mission okay this is just a view of what
the Joe looks like there’s like fire
monitoring it’s used okay especially
wildfires incident commanders can put
the drone up and see where the fire is
which way it’s going and that will help
them direct their resources to the right
spot and the void people get hurt
[Music]
you will see I mean the perspective you
get is amazing
[Music]
I know they’re showing this fire video
with a date on camera but a lot of times
we use our thermal camera for fire
scenes it can actually help you see hot
spots in the structure right again the
fire chief on location can redirect his
water speeds the more officials put out
and a minute till show what a fire looks
like from a thermal camera tremendous
asset
[Music]
so yeah there it is that’s a thermal
view of a fire you can see it really
stands out
as you could actually see up in the top
right-hand corner where it’s a lot
hotter where the red skip the orange
gets really great kid you can see hot
spots here
I know FDNY just bought a couple real
nice drones where this is that purpose
[Music]
right on the emergency management side
if there’s a disaster emergency matters
want to know what type of damage there
is flooding our houses destroyed we
could send a UAV up in the air get
really good damage assessment
this looks like another
that’s our inspired one they’re being
used all over the world I heard about a
story they’re actually using upon the
beach by the lifeguards and they’re
actually dropping life preservers out to
drowning victims so I mean the uses are
endless so hopefully you’ve taken away
that we’re not going to be using them to
spy on you and it’s actually gonna be a
really great thing for the community
thank you very much [Applause]
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