Indian Drone Squad | A Drone Startup Accelerator

Drone Squad Mission Aim: We are in a difficult time, and restricting movement and avoiding crowds is the only way we can hope to slow down the spread of the virus. The Government of India announced a 21-day lockdown to ensure public health safety. However, the local police have been having a tough time keeping people indoors. In the limited resources the police have, they are not able to keep an eye on all streets in their jurisdiction. We aim to make their work easier using images and live videos from drones to guide them to the locations where they need to pay attention to. What will we do: We will be conducting crowdsourced surveillance activity using drones across the country to support the local police in crowd control and ensuring the rules of lockdown are not violated. We will be enrolling local drone pilots who already have drones in their homes to fly from their rooftops in their neighbourhood. We will be using live video streaming from the drones assisted with AI algorithms to identify humans and groups of humans, making it easy for the local police to patrol and approach the crowd and request them to go back to their homes.