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Survey: Public Safety Sector is Embracing Drones

Incident management, rural communications among most cited use cases.

Survey: Public Safety Sector is Embracing Drones

By RBR Staff | February 19, 2020

ATLANTA – Almost 30% of public safety professionals surveyed by the International Wireless Communications Expo reported they are currently using drones in their operations. The responses were part of an overall industry insights report about the industry’s use of critical communications ahead of the IWCE event in late March in Las Vegas.

The survey was sent to system users from the first responders, public safety, transportation, utilities, oil & gas, education, real estate/construction, as well as others allied to the industry, including consultants and integrators, dealers, distributors and manufacturers. The 597 responses were used to benchmark current technologies used by these professionals and highlight technical challenges for the industry (click here to download the entire report). Respondents were also asked questions about 5G, smart cities, cybersecurity, women in technology, communication tools, and FirstNet.

How are Drones Being Used?

TypeTotal responsesPercentage
Rural communications15526%
Incident management14724.6%
Delivery service13422.5%
Survey disaster areas11719.6%
Tower safety11419.1%
Building inspection or site evacuation11118.6%
Instant coverage9816.4%
Find missing people9415.8%
Land management6811.4%
Insurance companies (to assess disaster area)6310.6%
Not applicable12220.4%
Other223.7%

“Drones have been one of the most compelling technological developments to hit the critical communications industry in recent years,” said Stephanie McCall, IWCE program director. “We wanted to understand how the sector intended to use drones, as we are now beginning to see their use in real-world applications and expect to see their use become more commonplace.”

Drones were also one of the options to a question about the technologies that respondents thought would impact smart cities the most over the next three years. Just over 11% of those surveyed indicated drones, with a higher percentage saying 5G (53.6%), IoT or IoT of Lifesaving Things (36.7%), artificial intelligence (29.7%), broadband (13.2%) or video (11.9%).

At the IWCE event, to be held March 30 – April 3, the group will host an outdoor drone demonstration area, which will showcase several commercial drones.

In the most recent report on public safety drones conducted by the Bard College Center for the Study of the Drone (May 2018), the group estimated at least 910 state and local police, sheriff, fire and emergency service agencies in the U.S. have acquired unmanned aerial vehicles.

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