# [Case Study] DJI Dock Deployment For Urban Smart Transportation - Event: NestGen ’24 - Published: March 4, 2024 - Length: 25:39 - Watch: https://nestgen.org/library/watch/eCX6nmxFJMc/ > The transcript of a recorded NestGen session, for reading or for use with an AI tool. It comes from the video's > captions; automatic captions can mishear names and terms. ## About this session Watch how DJI Docks are deployed country-wide to regulate traffic, provide real-time analytics, and decrease congestion. To know more, visit: ===== Subscribe to FlytBase YouTube - Follow Us On - LinkedIn - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - ## Transcript **[0:20]** this is one of the first sessions of Nan 2024 and what are we going to speak about I am really excited for this session because this is really close to my heart I have seen the disruption in the nested technology space in the last one and half years since the DJI doc was announced since the DJ do has announced the adoption of drone in a box technology has multi-folded multiple Enterprises across the globe I using the DJI DOC for different applications the fact that you can integrate these docs into your existing Enterprise ecosystem really gives Enterprises and you know different partners the the ability to deploy it for multiple applications now what are some of the applications that people are deploying these docs for well the sky is the limit honestly because you're able to integrate these docks into your existing infrastructure you can think of different use cases from inspection dfr to surveillance security Etc but one of the most interesting use cases **[1:27]** in the last year that we have seen at FlytBase and also across the globe is the DJI doc deployment for urban smart Transportation well wow Urban smart Transportation sounds like a heavy word for sure what does that mean what how can the doc help solve for smart Transportation how can the dog help solve for accidents how can the dog solve for uh Collision reporting well honestly I don't know that's why I'm here my name is Kos karney and I'll be your moderator for the the next 30 minutes I don't know the answers to these questions but I know who does we have on our panel ebo solution engineer latam from DJI Enterprise and Daniel DEA CTO di from Sky drones these guys are the experts in the space they have done the these kind of deployments of the dogs for smart Mobility themselves they know what they're talking **[2:28]** about and we're really excited to learn from them so maybe I'll get started with the introductions without any further Ado firstly I would like to introduce IBU ibotu from DJI Enterprise has working experience in telecommunication industry for over two years in Mexico and power industry for two years in Colombia ebo is committed to exploring the industry applications and segmentation scenarios of drones in to field with DJI Enterprise dealers in latam all he always keeps the vision of continuing to promote the progress of human civilization and enriching our daily lives it's an honor having you with us ebo so maybe you can wait for the audience and give a quick hi yeah yeah thanks awesome next we also have Daniel DEA from Dr from Sky he has been the CTO at Dr from Sky from since 2017 Dr from sky is an authorized DJI Enterprise dealer covering Dominican Republic they offer a wide range of aial solutions to large enterpr in the region Daniel you can say a wave and give a hi hi **[3:35]** awesome before we let our speakers explain the topic and go deeper into the topic I just want to set some housekeeping rules please again use the Q&A tab for your questions let the questions keep flowing we will have a dedicated Q&A session in the end to answer all your questions I'm your moderator and I'm making notes of all the questions and we'll make sure to cover most of them next the session is being recorded and will be shared with uh will be published soon so if you want to share this across to your colleagues to your customers please feel free to do that also we have a dedicated Booth dedicated booths of DJI in the Expo section so do feel free to drop by the Expo section explore the DJI Booth along with other booths also feel free to take screenshots of the session post the post the screenshots on LinkedIn share your thoughts share your feedback don't forget to add the hashtag NestGen the top three posts will receive special new NestGen hampers **[4:37]** wow we don't we all love gifts such events are impossible without their patreons without their sponsors so we would like to personally thank DJ Enterprise as the title sponsor and the goal sponsor sunflower Labs that is it from my side thank you so much uh I will hand over to ibotu for the remaining of the presentation so let's get set started with the session over to you EV yeah sure let's see you can already see screen right yes we can perfect I will just go ahead thanks friends from Flav and another time to welcome all the participants and audience from all over the world I'm EO Solutions engineer for the region of Latin America and DJ in DJ Enterprise today we invited our deer who has delivered in an interesting project of large scale Digi do deployment with a total of over 20 units to manage the urban smart transportations **[5:41]** due to the limited authorization from the end user we would like to share the integrated solution and workflow designed for the project and some experiences On the Dark Side selection design and Survey during a massive deployment so Dr from sky is our deer since 20 14 the dealer Works closely with Public Safety and Enterprise customers in Central America since the official lunch of DJ do one for Global Market in 2023 the dealer has delivered over 40 dogs among them over 20 for the urban smart Transportation project as one of the first members initiating the usage of join in a box solution since 2020 they already implemented over 2,000 flights of Doc missions in the case study today we want to show you a comprehensive solution designed for Enterprise customers of traffic management let's welcome Daniel TCO of Dr from Sky to share us their valuable experience on the doc Solutions Daniel so yes just go **[6:47]** ahead hi good morning all um here we can see the Jour application for smart transportation we can see Monitor and managed traffic uses also for law enforcement and also for emergency using responses as we can see here in the three pictures so um the duck solution for oror smart transportation we use um FlytBase or fly hop in this case we have a heat map on the on the command center and we can deploy the drones from there and we can be using the drones to to to gather data um live data and also be sending this information back to the to the correspondence enforcement and law and law communities also we can use this uh for emergency responses if we have a um let's say a case that is in a drone closy we can also deploy the Drone right away tap to fly and **[7:54]** have the eyes on the skies as we see with the with FlytBase in this case we can also create missions and we can also create report based on the based on this missions we are deploying right away as we see as as is when we are doing this type of um projects we have to gather and and work closely with the clients we need to know we need to explain to them that um this is new technology right so we we were we were covering area from 2 km radius with dock we were we were covering 20 intersections per Dock and the dock or drone we arrive in 3 minutes from the places um on on a 3 kilm radius with with um one dock we we cover more than a 100 accidents in in a year year basis as we see in the pictures here let's say that the dog is here one dog is **[8:56]** here and we we can cover this area the other dogs we cover this area with that with that we can cover the the whole the whole area um when we are doing also um this deployments it's good to it's good to go with the Drone have a experienced pilot go first with the Drone and map that out we we go with the RC plus and we send the Drone the furthest it can go and then we go back to the office and and do a our radius and we can see where's the the latest point the Drone can go and go back and and figure it out um do like a a heat map between that thing between the the area so we know what is the the best spot to the Drone can go and why not can go because in any case we send the Drone filter but we cannot control the camera and things like that so um this is a good **[9:56]** good opportunity and good thing to do when we are doing this type of deployment and also is recommend to is recommended to have um a to have a large building to the duck to be in a large building because you will cover more area if you have the dock in a in a lower building with a lot of infrastructure you won't cover many as as you were thinking also you see in in this picture of the at your at your right oh you pass uh as you see in this picture at your right um let's say this is the drun this is drug radius as as this we have a heat map distributed and and we work with with that flow um before doing the missions um we were we were um just uh brainstorming on having this thing and this is the the best work that that we can get from the dj. **[10:57]** one um before before using dock solution we were using pilots on site and visal observers for two to 5 hours daily and it was so hard to maintain um concentration on them or or just um how do you say it to to maintain like a persistent because weather here is super hot and alsoo it drains and things like that and from now that they use uh DJI Dock and duck solution it's more easy because they they are using the drones from the computer in in the command center it's more we have a more responsive and more um get a more precise flight than before when we were using matric 200 or matric 30 um on the q& feel free to to ask anything um based on this solution **[11:58]** and I'm happy to to answer your question also with Jibo awesome thank you Daniel thank you Evo any questions from the audience feel free to ask questions [Music] please if not I have a few questions that I'd like to ask uh Daniel any particular reason why 3 kilometers radius was chosen by trial and error or how did you come to that number okay so DJI Doc is 7 kilm right but you know this the 7 kilm are based on on perfect perfect um environments so when we are deploying this in cities uh we have a lot of communications cell towers and a lot of um um signals that when you are using maybe the remote controller flying at at 33 you will have more range but when you have a dog the dog is stationary there and you have a lot of **[12:59]** uh um buildings and things like that so it it will cut on half the S kilm we can go let's say four or five but cameras and things like that will will will not um move us smooth or things like that because signal interference so when you are three or four kilometers you can operate the Drone fully 100% that's why awesome let's say if we are in in in in open areas and things like that you can go more fitter uh and you don't have this type of lack but um on U cities it's recommended to have 3 kilm got it I have a follow-up question on that but we have a few questions from the uh in the chat box yeah so abishek chatter just asked what is the failure rate of the solution what can be improved to improve this so so what is **[13:59]** the failure rate and how can we improve the failure rate failure rate is so low to be honest failure rate is low low low I think um the only thing that that can help like can prevent this is using in the future 4G deployments private 4G deployment maybe will will help it if if in any case uh your country have a good 4G or 5G solution it will be better because you can also control the Drone in in fed from the Drone further from the dock you can control the Drone or control the camera that this is the things that that you face like this type of um of failures but to be honest I I I will use 4G in any case that it will be a back up or things like that I will prefer to have a um radio frequency uh control over over the Drone awesome that makes sense so to summarize very low failure rates but in case to you know to increase redundancy you would want **[14:59]** to have you know 4G connection yeah exactly we have uh one more question so from Irving Jang thanks could you please share with us how to manage a huge Fleet which platform and how many operators is there a is there a colleague to monitor at all times so is there a colleague who's is there a person who's monitoring the first question is yeah so go ahead yeah yes um on this large of Fe need uh experienced Pilots to be honest and you will need a command center you will also need um people that know exactly how how this works and you will need a like a like um a command a commander that will guide all these plights and and and checks like uh monitors all the flights it's a it's complex to be honest but um you will it needs years of experience to have this build us today so every every day you are learning new stuff and things like that and you also would need you need also to work closely with the **[16:03]** with the authorization like uh civil authorization of the country to to deploy things like that right and that brings us to the next question which is from Lefteris ratus what about regulations so you mentioned that you need to work with the Civil Authority so what about regulations how do you get the regulations yeah since um this is uh dock solution is so new you have to uh like uh invite the The Regulators to to to see the solution you have and things like that and they will give you um special like a special authorization to see how this works because maybe new new people in the future will also want to to have these things in in in in their field so since this tun new is good to to invite them and and and show them what you're working on so they they are fully uh uh aware and authorize you on on these deployments right so to to summarize education awareness show them the solution build confidence and that helps with the regulations yes **[17:05]** awesome a question from NES palar how accurate is the landing repeatability inside the dock any specific case when the Drone is not able to land inside the dock and fail saves we have for that maybe Daniel anyone could answer yeah go ahead yeah sure um the Drone have a fail safe in any case uh it doesn't land or it doesn't open the latch it will go to a a safe location that when you're deploying the Drone you will you will set up the safe location the Drone also use rtk technology that it have a 1 to two cm um fail when it's going I mean uh error when it's going to do the landing to be honest we never experience um no landing on on the dock never um we have also test before this we have also test like to block the the Drone latch and things like that to see what happens and the Drone goes every time to the to the safe location it's a you know very persistent sort of a drone they always want to land **[18:07]** back huh yeah yeah they always want to land back they try hard but it's it's always works good yeah I what I hear is you actually tried intentionally to make sure that the Drone does not land back and it still landed back yeah yeah we tried many many things uh your team um back in FlytBase know well we try many things on on these things because we were one to be aware but they work policy awesome awesome uh we have another question from uh NES palar uh does the dock uh does the dock and all the internal systems including the camera installed on the dock U so are they live are they 24 cross 7 how often does the dog go offline only the dog go offline if in any case uh you don't have internet because uh the dog have um batteries inside that can last uh DJI says 5 hours but I have seen them for more than 12 hours um just to have like uh camera view and things like **[19:08]** that but if if it it if if in any case is it's there's no power on the on the on the on the dock and no internet it will last for 12 hours or more awesome uh a question from Michal or Michael regarding 4G 5G connection is there any available solution for DJI dog for European Union EU uh Jibo can can help me with that question yeah right now I think with those places without inter internet connection you are using H starlink right for the 4G signals no no no he means um on 4G connection on the Drone if we were doing we are using forg based on drone uh yeah yeah but I mean right now in this case uh for the 4G solution you are if it takes to use the 4G solution you are using those from uh Sterling right for the dog no no no that that Sterling is only for the dog uh **[20:12]** yeah it's only for the dog but meanwhile if you want to use those uh solutions for the drones uh literally officially we still don't do not support with our own 4G Dango but you can actually find some ecosystem Partners who are designed their own dongles of 4G for example those from T in China and also other partners all over the world actually you can find it in our DJI developer uh official website to find which are the systems already qualified by our DJI Enterprise yeah awesome so uh to summarize not dj officially does not have a product for it but there are Channel Partners doesn't their partner yeah that's it awesome so Michael maybe you can go to the website that ebo mentioned and you can find for yourself uh one more question um is how is the fight flight path planned how do we make sure that the Drone operates safely in cases of significant terrain height variations and tall **[21:16]** buildings so I think Daniel this would be very relevant to you because in a urban atmosphere that there might be a lot of buildings that you would have to plan according to yeah um depending on the area we have Set uh fight height and also the the DJI Dock and FlytBase also fly Hub have a follow terrain function when you're you're doing a mission to to fly so it will gather um information on the terrain and and we also uh correct their their height and that's based on on on the Fly hop and now fly based on solution also if when when we are doing the the surveying we check what what is the the highest building things like that and we can also map that out on the on the on the map that we use as uh as as the flying map we can put like how buildings and and I put annotation there so on the pilots know what what is the highest building things like that and **[22:17]** and and and to summarize to know where what is the area that he can go fur and things like that awesome got it that makes sense uh is there any so one more question uh we still have 5 minutes so we can take two three questions yeah is there any any emergency measures like flight termination system uh FTS or parachute provided by DJI um I think Jibo can also help him with that uh pares and things like that are third parties um product that you can also bought there are a lot of Solutions in in in the market and the other one what was the other question uh uh yeah flight termination system so emergency measures are you able to terminate flight mid-flight uh if anything goes wrong yeah yeah yeah you can you can Dominate and also the Drone have um safe location that he can go in any case uh the Drone have a problem or something like that got it so that also answers krishna's question which is any fail **[23:18]** safe option during the flight uh that also answers left's question uh bhabar bhab prakash is asking does har weather affect the Drone and the dock system so maybe I'll rephrase that have you faced any issues because you mentioned earlier that weather plays you know weather's very harsh in Dominican Republic have you faced any issues with respect to weather and because of the weather the Drone not flying um maybe the only issue that I face is if it's uh there's a lot of uh High win or if it's raining uh so hard the Drone won't won't uh go but it's it's it's also safe measurement that the Drone is is built that is it doesn't go if if in any case it's rain or or high winds um are happening so it's good to it's good to have this prevention because in any case the the pilot is not aware of high wi and things like that the Drone and he will send the Drone or in any case the Drone goes out and the winds start happening when it's going out the the **[24:21]** the dock will the the Drone will go back to the dock and and land safely awesome so there are enough fail saves uh in extreme weather conditions for the Drone to not fly and if mid-flight that happens they' fly back to the location yeah it will go it will do it uh right away we'll go back to the Dr awesome so one last question before we sum up and summarize is uh you mentioned Daniel in the start that apart from you know smart Mobility or you know traffic monitoring you can also use it for emergency response the DJI doc so is it possible to dispatch drones to a site of emergency through an integrated sort of workflow are you able to integrate with external systems to do that yeah you you will have to have um it personel on your on the the company that knows well uh how to integrate these things and you can integrate it uh also with FlytBase and um you will have you will also need to to have data to to **[25:21]** to to put it on on that system so the the the FlytBase system or the doc system on understand it and and from that point you can also work that out but it it this will take time and and you will have to work with other entities that provide these things