Maybe Alexa will call the drone in automatically if she hears moaning coming from the bedroom.
Posted on 06/22/2019 3:00:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Going on vacation and want some extra security around your home? Someday you may be able to call Amazon's surveillance drones.
The Seattle tech giant is moving closer to making that scenario a real possibility after winning approval from federal officials this month for a patent for "home surveillance" drones.
Company officials stress that the plan is still in its infancy, but the patent papers describe a future in which Amazon customers order drones to hover around a home and scan for things such as a garage door left open, a broken window, graffiti or a fire.
As Amazon envisions, a customer can have a package delivered by drone and then instruct the unmanned aerial vehicle to conduct a "surveillance action," the authors of the patent wrote.
When the drone detects something awry, a text message or telephone call can be sent to the homeowner or to local authorities.
"An alert may be provided to multiple recipients, such as a service provider (such as a security provider), an operator, a user, or a municipal entity such [as] a police or fire department," the patent materials say.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Maybe Alexa will call the drone in automatically if she hears moaning coming from the bedroom.
Fixed it.
It would be better if you would hear something.
Much more likely that you would hear nothing.
We are entering a period where there will be almost no privacy, at least outdoors.
Even inside, our phones and appliances are now monitoring us.
How much ransom for “found” drones in da hood?
“then instruct the unmanned aerial vehicle to conduct a “surveillance action,”
that’s stupid. Once I see the post office or UPS guy drop off the packages, I prefer not to see them again until them time they have business at my place..
I’ve seen that movie.
It doesn’t end will for the humans.
Sounds like it might be useful.
Catch the bad guys, when they are just casing the house, not wait until they are already breaking in.
Not here as much as I can help it.
I like my little dumb phone.
We don’t watch TV and don’t have Siri or Alexis monitoring our every move.
Don’t do social media and volunteer away my privacy.
catch them doing what? Standing there?
[I’ve seen that movie.
It doesn’t end will for the humans.]
Should be fun when Amazon starts shipping the Cyberdyne Systems T-800 Model 101.
Hyperalloy combat chassis. Fully armored. Very tough.
The first ones had rubber skin. We spotted them easily.
Eventually, all B-2’s can be fully automated; no pilots.
Well, I don’t want someone standing at the corner of my house in the middle of the night.
Tell me how your own security system would do less than amazons creepy stuff.
Sounds like this will be ADT’s next home security monitoring service.
Haha! One of my neighbors has already disposed of a kid’s drone with a shotgun-the son of the summer people who live on the next property to his was flying a drone in the neighbor’s little pasture-getting his kicks using it to annoy the goats-the neighbor told him to get it off the property, the kid didn’t do it so the neighbor shot the drone-it was the last drone we’ve seen around here-which is just fine with everybody-if we wanted to be spied on, we’d live in a city...
Many moons ago I considered a home drone surveillance system with a ‘garaged’ drone that would launch and fly a pattern with video running, sending to to web & to you. Then parks itself in its alarmed garage, with proximity charging system. Alarm system triggers it.
As long as I can control, it would be something to consider.
/s
For normal residences in the ‘burbs it doesn’t seem efficient to have a drone circling your property 24x7 when there are wireless home monitoring systems to perform that function that are less obvious.
May be good if you have a lot of acreage and/or an extended property. In that case the home owner may want to own their own drone instead of renting one. Prices will continue to decrease over time.
It looks like a solution in search of a problem.
Amazon staff meeting: “Hey we have these drones delivering packages - what else can we do with them to make money?”
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