# Integrating Autonomous Enterprise Solutions with Docks

- Event: NestGen ’24
- Published: April 5, 2024
- Length: 35:17
- Watch: https://nestgen.org/library/watch/mHct5zfAYA0/

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## About this session

Discover how integrating drone-in-a-box solutions revolutionizes enterprise drone programs. Explore use cases, system integrations, and workflow automation for enhanced efficiency and value. Join Rahul and Achal from FlytBase as they delve into the transformative impact of drone-in-a-box technology on enterprise operations.

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## Transcript

**[0:19]** [Music] with this session our core Focus would be to help you understand and detail about how an inclusion of a drone in a box solution would positively impact the efficiency gen of drone programs at Enterprises I'm Rahul your host and I'll be joined by my colleague AEL who is the director of Business Development at FlytBase his extensive experience in working with system integrators drone solution providers and Enterprises would help him in painting a detailed picture about how a drone in a box program would help an Enterprise in getting more value out of their drone operations before we get started with the session let me lay down some housekeeping rules please put up your questions in the Q&A tab on the right hand side we will address those towards the end of the session and this session will also get recorded and you'll be able to see it soon once NJ NJ is over over our website and lastly

**[1:23]** do not forget to post the favorite section from this session over LinkedIn or Twitter with the # nesen lucky winners would might have some surprises at the end and before I hand it over to achel I would like to thank our title sponsor DJ Enterprise and our gold sponsor sunflower Labs with this achel over to you you may share your screen thank you rul can you hear me yes great hi everybody thank you for joining uh negen and the session specifically let me just quickly jump on that and and share my screen now please tell me once you can see my screen yes Asel it's visible great awesome so thank you so much uh this session is going to be we going to talk about integrating autonomous Enterprise solution with dogs so how dogs have changed the entire world of system Integrations when it comes to drone Solutions we're going to

**[2:24]** Deep dive in Integrations we're going to understand different use cases and how to leverage these documation with all the Enterprise applications that we have today so if you are having a security use case if you have a public safety you have uh uh solar use case construction mining we'll try to cover all of that uh in this session and help you understand how you can integrate that so let's begin with that and let's understand some fundamentals while we look at uh the docking station so this is very key and very important to understand drones so far were never part of an Enterprise infrastructure let that sink in so what how did we use drones we actually went we flew the drones we came back to our office or home and then we would take out an SD card put up that in the laptop or machine and then upload that data to an Enterprise

**[3:24]** infrastructure that could be kind of a software which an Enterprise use where they can see the reports and everything everything sometimes it needs to be processed and then you put that data so there was a disconnect when we were using these drones but now if you look at the right side of it right where when we deploying these docking stations and automated drones specifically the docking stations are part of that Enterprise infrastructure where we are just integrating through the firewall through the command Cent to the command center to the onfield clients to the servers to store the data to pass the video stream to talk to alarm systems video Management Systems it could be yard yard Management Systems talking to some data analysis software so what iot did internet of things did for Enterprise right it became the part of the infrastructure where you're connected to the entire network layer you're talking to the different subsystems in an Enterprise this is how dogs are going to be deployed and we have already seen that in last couple of years of how it has well

**[4:27]** integrated uh with the Enterprise ecosystem so that is where system integration becomes very important we're going to talk about that in a little later but the key remember the thing to remember is drones were never part of Enterprise infrastructure but docks would be and in the sense where they would be part of the entire network entire communication and talking to subsystems and Enterprise uh uh ecosystem feel free to drop your questions on any topic we're going to uh go in multiple details uh in every aspect but in case you have any questions feele free to put it right now uh uh whatever questions comes to your mind and happy to take that at the end of the session so now when we looking at uh deploying automated drones right there are several things it's not just drones and docking stations you need to identify what's my software for flight operations which needs to be compliant so I can use it for deploying a fleet of drones and have

**[5:29]** all the be loss approvals I may need a detect and avoid system because uh that's what is required for to get an approval or integration with UTM adsd weather parachute payloads different kind of sensors you want to integrate with an alarm system or your fence and send the Drone to that location as soon as that alarm is trigger or if you're getting the data you want that it to be in a video Management systems or you have a computer A dispatch like a cad system and you want every data to be synced together there are like millions of components that needs to be integrated and of course then data processing and software so how do we do that how do we integrate all of that uh here with when we deploying these dockin stations so all of this needs to come together and that is where uh we need help from system integrators so this is where system integrators be an external or your internal teams need to be trained upon all of these components where they can integrate the system so where drones were like a product you just take it out of the

**[6:33]** box and start using it when you're deploying a dock it's entire solution you need a system integration you need a entire solutioning around it in order to leverage it and how would system integrators address this like what do they need and that is where FlytBase platform come into picture where you can integrate all of those pieces of the pule together and deploy the entire solution so if you look at this diagram little bit and this is where we're going to go into detail you can bring any hardware be drones docking station payloads and then you have entire platform which manages flight automation BV loss flight safety data security and compliance and then the workflow manager and this is where we're going to talk about more where how we can build Enterprise workf clowser Integrations how I can integrate apps which are existing like drone deploy above Skycraft Milestone as a data man uh we do systems and so on so there are so many existing apps there are so many systems which

**[7:35]** Enterprises use how can we integrate all of that because you may have different applications a single customer could have a construction site where in the daytime they would want to use a fleet of docking stations to do the entire construction monitoring but then night time they want security and they want the security into to access the data so how do we do that how do we integrate all of these and this is where we're going to talk about where what is required to make these Integrations easy and seamless with docs so let me introduce flings to you so this is an entirely New Concept uh in Flight base where we flinks are the connectors to enable one click Integrations between FlytBase and external apps so flinks allow you to integrate with applications like drone deploy genitech a RoR Maps or any any application that you've been using of your Cho and flings are already made available where you can use existing flings

**[8:37]** where like drone deploy you can just have a single click one click integration with drone deploy and all the flights that you're doing you can Pro post process the data we don't deploy or you can use something like FX 4D to post process data or if you're looking to create a 3D model with a video you can use Sky brows so flinks allow you to integrate flight Bas with an external app plus if you have your own systems where you want to integrate alarms Data proing Systems here is a quick demonstration how where how you can use Uh custom Flink options to create your own integration so this is a quick demo where you can see uh the dashboard and we are in the fling section we are in the my flinks so my flings is where you see all the existing flings that you have now this could be don't deploy gench yes y yes which is yard manual system which which is integrated to your account and now you can go to a Flink library and choose from variety of flinks available to connect to any kind of

**[9:39]** applications so you can see that there are different applications right here plus you can build your own Flink so when you click that it gives you an option to create FL for alarms data processing live data streaming like live video VMS video man systems UTM avoid and so on and you can choose any of those and integrate your own custom application sensors uh to to the flight based platform and uh in then inherently with your docking station so you can create that entire uh automation at later workflow which we'll talk about in a bit and this is where you can see that you can choose the right component and add it and that gets added to my fling section so now you can have that connection of that app with your docum station so let me just take you to uh another New Concept which is called automations so automations allow configurations of automated actions based on certain triggers so

**[10:45]** once your flings are configured now you can use a combination of different triggers and actions so you can set that if I get a say trigger from this particular alarm and I want to send this particular drone you can create that entire automation inside the flight Bas platform and we'll see that in different cases in use uh different use cases that we're going to cover in more detail you can of course find more information regarding this on our website and we'll be sharing more details uh with with the coming sessions and the coming weeks so let's move to the Crux of the session which is how to build Enterprise workflows and let's look at a few use cases so first first one is let's let's take a look at security operations uh what are the things that a Security customer or security system would need so typically if you're looking a project requirement and if you look at the right uh you would get a requirement where customer has a lar site and they are looking to automate

**[11:47]** security operations with dogs uh they want full automated security they may want 24 cross and security they want to integrate uh motion sensors alarms on their site and want to immediately respond as when as the alarm is triggered they may want to have live video in their videoan system like Milestone or gench they also want to maybe have schedule patrols where they want to schedule that mission and detect and Report vehicles uh using an AI technology and whenever a mission is done they may want a PDF report where they can have all the logs of those kind of sessions uh right here uh plus uh they also need compliance where they're flying in the area where they need a parachute so these are like typical requirements which come from your customer and if you're a system integrator or you're you're a part of a system integration team of a big enterprise Enterprise you may have these kind of requirements coming from your internal teams that hey this these kind of solution is something that we're looking at and that is where we want to leverage do stations so

**[12:50]** let's break down this with uh each and every component and see how we can use different flings uh like we just saw in previous slides to solve this problem right are you with me can I have yes in the chat where we have people in the chat just put yes if you're following and have any questions great I see Nick Jason anit yeah thank you so much great let's uh go on uh so let's let's crack this problem so of course customer has a big side they're looking for a dog the first thing that they want is to integrate alarms right and how do we deploy and integrate this kind of solution so the one the first one is automation with alarm system so what you see here is a quick screenshot we're going to see a demo video soon but alarms is one of the flank where you can integrate with your existing alarm sensors now this could be uh your perimeter fence this could be your CC cameras with detections or motion sensors your entire security

**[13:54]** system could be connected where alarm fling can continuously listen uh to these uh triggers which are coming and then you can take the right action so let's look at this in in a detail where we have this demonstration video uh so just to help you uh familiarize with with with the dashboard here uh you you can see that the operator is right now config configuring the entire Mission this is like a daily operation uh where operator was using and doing uh his or her daily job but if you notice on the right side there are a couple of notifications which has already come so while you are doing a schedule patrols where you're flying that you could already have alarms coming in uh from your Ed uh any alert system that has been established so if you look quickly here you'll see that okay I have multiple alarms which have come here and if I click on that you're able to see where it has come from so there could be a

**[14:58]** sensor or something uh camera which has been placed which detects that now now using this you can create an automated workflow where you can have set any particular drone dog to respond to that particular thread it can be either done manually or it could be fully automated using the automation that we just uh spoke about a little bit earlier so you can see that the dock is opening and uh uh the Drone is there you can see the live video feed uh from the Drone and the Drone would be quickly launched and respond to that alarm so whenever we looking at these kind of applications right servicing alarm on a big side is very expensive uh there has been use cases from oil and gas to construction where somebody has to go and drive there to see what has happened and in some cases even there are false alarms where you end up going there and you find nothing and of course that takes a lot of resources and

**[15:59]** ultimately is a is a cost Factor uh whereas when when there is a real threat it is important to quickly send a First Response based on the data that you're getting uh from the situation awareness of the Drone data that you have so the Drone quickly respond to that location then of course you can take a manual control and look around or what are the things which are going on this was a short demonstration but this is where you can integrate as I was talking about where this could be your uh sensors or the fence and all the pipeline construction site and you can send the Drone there and once the uh mission is done you can trigger return to home and drone would come back and land now let's go to the next piece where the next one is we talk about BMS integration so now we are flying this but of course you may have a large team the customer may have the large team where they want the data to come in their existing video man solution and in this case as we

**[17:01]** saw in the problem statement the customer wanted integration with something like Milestone which is a very popular video management solution so flight B allows uh you to uh have those kind of Flink Integrations uh where you can get all that data uh inside uh your video man solution so be live video streaming live map you can leverage this flings and either create a custom Flink or use a offthe shell Flink to integrate uh a video man solution so in this dashboard you'll see that you're getting the live video feed from CCTV cameras and I'll just quickly take forward where you can start seeing live video feed from drones as well great so we have solved the two problems that the customer had and this is how uh we we did it now the another problem statement the customer had is having live video stream so detecting different things in different uh areas depends on the use

**[18:02]** case uh in this case if you're looking to detect vehicles uh you would need the right Flink an AI module a Flink with a AI app or AI detection software which has been trained now this could be done for a traffic monitoring system this could be done for uh uh detecting a people pedestrians that could be detected for a crack corrosion or it could be even Wildfire detection kind of scenario so in this one you would see that the Drone would take off uh you can see that it has taken off from the doc station and we have a Flink which is connected to a partner who does uh video traffic analysis and counts Vehicles so now you can pass on that data process the data and get back that data uh into the platform where you can see the live video feed and all that all of that on on the same dashboard so this is what flings enable you uh to get

**[19:05]** there now let's move to the next bed where sorry I probably have jumped slide okay right I I see a question where uh what if you like a PDF report and this is something where uh we would talk about in detail in one of the slides let me take those questions a little bit later but this is how you solve the entire problem and you can get the entire uh information of the security inside uh the security operations let's move to Public Safety and let's look at certain use cases there so when you're looking at a public safety use cases police departments are looking to leverage a fleet of automated drones for crime prevention and secetary ins surveillance the require integration with the computerated dispatch to deploy drones with alarms with live in your feed very similar to what we saw in security they

**[20:07]** require a system where they can manage multiple team and automated drone Fleet for respective regions they also have a way to need a way to communicate during the live operations how do you talk they talk to each other and since the operations and data captured are critical and sensitive they require higher highest level of data security where they need no dependency on internet so so probably they're looking for an on promise solution here so how do we crack this problem and how do we integrate such a solution let's go deeper into this so like we integrated uh with uh the alarm system using the same flank or using a custom flank we can integrate with that computer Ed dispatch where we can get all of that data into the system uh where as soon as they have an accident or they have any kind of incident uh which has been reported from from uh the cad system we can set up an automated alarm where we can send the Drone to that particular location like we did in that previous video

**[21:07]** that we saw so using the same Flink we can now easily do a cad integration and we have already seen this so I'll skip this uh for now and the next thing they would need is is the site management where they would need multiple docking station in different sites they have a large team where they want to manage and then they do not want to share the data or they want a specific team to focus on a specific area so this is where site management helps where they can create multiple site assign a dog or multiple dogs to that site assign a different team to that so entire team can coordinate effectively uh through through the dashboard and this is where the entire organization Management in FlytBase helps you where you can create the teams you can set the roles and manage the entire team uh through your admin console then they had a very unique requirement where they wanted to do audio chat so when you look at the flight B dashboard flight B allows you to have the entire

**[22:12]** team chat so once you have created your Aug you have created the site you have uh filled in the people you uh you have the dogs connected to it you can easily chat with the people who are flying uh the drones and you can communicate you can share the control and manage the entire operations very important for Public Safety then you have the entire live video management where you can even inest the data from external CCTV cameras so FlytBase allows you to have that uh flinx where you can connect with video streaming coming from third party sources and you can get that CCTV inside FlytBase if you're looking to use FlytBase for Public Safety so with that let's quickly look at another use case uh which is into construction mining so typically when you're looking at a constru construction or mining site the key importance is of course the data processing uh today you would go and fly the drones manually or you just do uh an semi-automated mission where you plan it on

**[23:16]** your app uh and then you have to go on that side and fly the Drone but now when you're adopting drone dogs how do you automate all of that entirely as well as the data process in because you're no longer getting the data out from the Drone and then putting in the cloud manually to process the data so how to get that thing automatically done and that is where uh where we have a drone deploy fling so drone deploy which allows you to postprocess data and create create 3D models and it's one of the best reality capture platform in the market so what you see here is uh the entire uh operation where you have a dog uh you are planning the mission now you can either have a Flink of mission sync so you can sync the mission from any other software if you have any complicated Mission or anything which you have pre-planned already so you can see that the operator is planning the mission inside FlytBase and uh then it going to launch that current Mission specifically with a particular

**[24:20]** dog and you can schedule it where you if you want to have specific reports at specific day and time the Drone would automatically fly and process the data so now you can see that the Drone is in up in the air and as we have set the grid Mission the Drone is going to collect that data and uh make it available so this is a very straightforward part of course this is something what dog has been designed for but what happens to that data is something which which has been a manual process again where you would have to maybe push it on an AWS and then uh take it manually integrate it manually uh with any other software to Pro process it but now this is where flings come to the picture where you can seamlessly have that mission sync with uh drone deploy with the Drone deploy Flink and it would automatically pass on all that data that you just collected with the platform and process it using flight

**[25:22]** base uh using tone deployers sorry so now you have that data going to don't deploy and the mission that we just flew uh you would be able to create the entire uh 3D map of that site which is very important for a construction or a mining usit so it is that easy where you can integrate with uh any existing apps using Flink you can also take a brief look at the vehicle detection and track Hall uh tracking Hall tracks which is very important for specifically uh mining kind of use cases where you want to have live video feed coming in and you have live detection of uh the vehicles which are moving now we did vehicle detection in one of the use cases but in this case it's slightly different because drones could be flying on a perimeter or flying in a particular area and then you want to quickly note down what

**[26:24]** kind of vehicles are you seeing on the mining side and then you want to send that data to your or one of the mining software that you're using so flings allow you to create that workflows uh that connections with the apps and then automations allow you to create that workflows where you can automatically send that data now let's look at one more use case ver is traffic monitoring so so far we have covered security we have covered Public Safety we have covered uh construction mining let's look at traffic monitoring as well so these kind of use cases which are uh occurring throughout the world where a government or customers are looking to have automated drone technology integrated with their local command control centers where they can integrate with things like WS or local traffic management solution so they can respond to those kind of accidents or traffic jams really quick and this is

**[27:25]** where we can use similar flings that we spoke about so instead of now integrating alarm system or integrating a cad we can integrate with a traffic management system like w which can give us a traffic alert so we have now a vas Flink we have a alarm Flink again you can use a custom Flink and integrate that application like we saw in the previous videos and then uh you can have the entire modules for example we have a data from Sky which allows you to post process that data and find entire patterns in that data of traffic monitoring you can send that drone to that particular area collect that footage and have the entire live analysis done of how the traffic is doing at that particular Junction and this is uh done by from one of our partner data from Sky similarly you can of course have the module that we just saw of traffic monitoring where you can do those kind of live monitoring as well and count vehicles uh for uh

**[28:27]** certain use case in the traffic monitoring so that is it from my side hope I was able to give you a quick insight into flinks and uh how you can do these kind of system integrated system integration and why it is important why you're deploying these stocks because there's so much complexity in terms of the different use cases different pieces that needs to be connected and if you have any more questions you can reach out to us at contact flight.com or learn at flight b.com great thank you so much and we'll be opening up for questions uh here that was really great achel so you started your presentation with uh saying that drone cannot drones cannot be a part of Enterprises at that scale but this presentation was a clear Insight on how a drone in a box solution would help with an endtoend workflow and help Enterprises scale their drone operations so I hope it served uh informative to the audience who was viewing the

**[29:28]** session we can take up a few questions there are quite a few so I believe people found it quite informative so the first question was that I I'll ask you is in regards to the deployment option so what was seen was about the web based version of FlytBase but but is it possible to have it deployed locally right so we had one of the requirements uh already there in one of the presentation where U the C customer wanted everything to be on air gap solution or on promise so FlytBase is modular where it can be easily deployed on a private server on promise server and can also work without internet so if you want to leverage it over intranet yes you can use FlytBase on that all right so the next question is regarding the alarm flow. you show so when the Drone responds to an alarm and reaches a location

**[30:29]** wherein the Intruder is being viewed on the with the live video feed what does the Drone exactly do does the operator have the authority to plan if it can follow or track or can hover around the Intruder so this is where automations coming to picture what do you want the Drone to uh do at that particular location and that is where you can go and start a search pattern you can do a orbit you can have a manual control with a choice Tech you can just go there click picture and come back and land so automations allow you to create these kind of workflows uh which which could which would be required for a certain use case all right and the other question is regarding flinks so you showed a detailed explanation about what Integrations are possible but are there any prerequisites of an application for it to be integrated with FlytBase uh no there are no prerequisits uh these are very uh easy apis and web hooks uh so depending upon what kind of application you have you can use the

**[31:31]** right flings and integrate your application with FlytBase all right and the last question for the session would be what are some of the necessary considerations a company or Enterprise or any drone solution provider must have before deploying a docking station so of course uh there are multiple things where first when you're deploying a doc uh you need to choose a a platform where you can do all of these system Integrations uh right where you can integrate with different components otherwise uh lot of uh customers I mean now I see that a lot of customers who have now adopted dog for one use case they're expanding to multiple use case so you need a platform where you can integrate all of that rather than just using it for one application or one software so you need that base layer where you can integrate all of this you would also need something where you can do be loss Integrations uh right so you can make it compliant data security is biggest concern because now since it has becoming it is becoming the part of Enterprise infrastructure how do you secure

**[32:34]** the data right uh and be that it compliant that is where certifications come into the picture like so 2 type 2 gdbr ISO 270001 as well as different Enterprises have different uh requirements there then you would of course need uh a team which can provide you an Enterprise support right because as you're deploying this there will be of course uh lot of uh questions lot of things around where you need somebody who can handhold you uh and that is where uh we spoke about flight based academy uh today in the keynote we talk about how Enterprise support is required and how flight B has been handholding our partners so that is something which which is required uh for for specifically deploying dogs uh and making sure that you have something which is reliable and scalable I also see some of the questions so IR has asked if what content customer would like to have in PDF report so that totally depends on the use case again iring where uh

**[33:38]** they are prob looking at the entire maybe a Telemetry report where when the Drone flew what was the height all due the basic stuff uh maybe a quick snapshot of the map uh they were looking for uh what what was the reason was it an alarm or somebody took it so basically the entire uh summary of that particular uh Mission uh and it you it may depend on several use cases that what they're looking in that kind of PDF report I also see a question from Nick so or if you have multiple dogs on a site can they link together and communicate so they respond to True triggers at the same time yes really great question there uh so yes that can be done uh that is something which uh which is still working Pro R where you still do not have those many dogs deployed on a certain side it's still a growing piece of technology and deployments but certainly uh you can integrate a single alarm with multiple dogs and have uh

**[34:41]** drone reach there and then of course you can have a deconfliction or a collision avoidance systems where to make sure that those two two drones are not colliding midair so all of those things need to be taken in consideration if certain kind of use cases are being deployed thank you so much for AEL for sharing your insights so that is it from our end uh thank you so much everyone for tuning in for this session there are multiple sessions which are lined up and some have started now so I request you all to join those and get uh to understand more about drone in box operations