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2nd July 2021 | Iss 296

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Health, Social Care & Nursing

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Healthcare in Education Healthcare in Education

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Housing & Property

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Charities and Third Sector

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Charity Leadership

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Education Recruitment Education Recruitment

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Education Campaign

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Planning in Local Government

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Local Government

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Local Government & Public Finance

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National Products & Services Showcase

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ARPAS – From The Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems UK Member: Drone Services Global: www.droneservices.global DSG provide the use of drones in public services to help the public sector save money and operate more efficiently.

The There are numerous ways in which drones can be used in the public services sector: police and fire-fighting, disaster response, environmental protection and monitoring and infrastructure inspection to name a few.

But why should the public services be using drones? There are three main reasons: they’re safer, faster and cheaper.

At a time when the UK government has been reducing budgets available to public services right across the board, when demands on all services have increased, as well as the ability to scrutinise every payment and every health and safety risk, this technology’s savings are worth potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds to public services that could then be reinvested in other underfunded areas, like education.

Potential savings In 2017 Severn Trent Water’s drone usage saved £30,000. In 2018, they saved over £750,000 and more is yet to come. They use drones now to check the optimisation of treatment processes, thermal imaging of pipes to detect leakage and creating 3D models of assets. These uses cross into public services: sur surveying public owned properties for building defects including roofs, windows, chimneys, guttering and high-rise cladding, saving thousands of pounds in unnecessary scaffolding and eliminating the risk of people working at height.

Councils already using drones for inspection work In the lig light of the Grenfell disaster, the Department for Communities and Local Government produced Advice Note 13: Advice for building owners: External Wall Insulation (EWI) systems with a render or brick-slip finish, wherein it states that the maintenance of a building with External Wall Insulation (EWI) sy systems with either a render or brick-slip finish, particularly those over 18m tall or in an exposed location, should include an annual visual inspection. It goes on to list in particular what to look for. UAVs are ideal for this work, as they can gather the information easily, quickly and in a format that can pinpoint any issues. O Over the years, this will provide useful data to councils as they monitor building maintenance.

In November 2018, it was reported that a Scottish local authority had saved £4.5 million due to drones. A local drone company was contracted to provide aerial inspection to over 600 council owned properties. This formed part of a larger scale program to bring them into line with HEEP (Home Energy Efficiency Pr Programs) and SHQS (Scottish Housing Quality Standard). By using UAVs rather than traditional methods meant the inspection has taken weeks rather than years. It has also minimised the risks to staff of working at height and the risks of further damage being caused during the inspection process itself.

Working together with the council to get permissions to close roads for short periods, having extra people to hand as observers and helping to make all necessary arrangements meant that the work was straightforward.

Other mitigating factors involved flying early in the morning when areas were at their quietest. mea that the council inspection This has meant program has run smoothly and efficiently with minimal disruption to the local population. The end result of the collaborative work was the targeted deployment of maintenance teams to only those properties in need of work and with an accurate brief as to the scope of the repairs needed.

Environmental protection and monitoring In Ireland, 18 councils are using drones, predominantly quad-copters to visit known fly-tipping sites. Having the capability to cover 13 or 14 sites in a day, when this would otherwise take several days, and to revisit them at more frequent intervals shows what a difference drones can make to the en environment. While this is not necessarily an immediately obvious use case for drones and one that has had its merits discussed, it does show that councils are not averse to trialling new technology. It has had the added advantage of providing greater security to staff as they are positioned at one remove to the fly-tipping incident and potential conflict.

Since 2017, the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment has given €2.3 million to councils through the anti-dumping initiative. The funding has supported more than 400 projects and removed more than 5,000 tons of illegally dumped waste.

Fly-tipping monitoring is not the only environmental use that drones can be put to: they can monitor coastal erosion too, enabling better decisions to be made in the long term for infrastructure and tourism reasons. Wattle Range Council in the south east of Southern Australia uses drones to monitor their coastline, overlapping images in time to monitor the erosion. While on-ground monitoring had been undertaken annually for a number of years, the imagery one particular area showed the risk of erosion undermining a key tourist route. From the ground, the dune swales were visibly lower than the dunes, leading people to expect that any breach by the ocean through the dunes would be at this low point. However, the aerial imagery shows that the dune is most likely to undermine the road first, leading to better decisions for local road maintenance being made.

The future for councils?

Leeds University Engineering Department have designed and created drones that can fix potholes in the road. Potentially taking a fraction of the time that traditional methods do, the drone scans the pothole and then uses a 3D asphalt printer to fill the hole. Leeds City Council is working closely with Leeds Uni University to pioneer the use of drones in a concept described as ‘self-repairing cities’. As a side effect, it has been discovered that this

3D printed asphalt is actually stronger than traditional asphalt. With approximately 32 per cent of Welsh councils' road maintenance budgets spent on reactive maintenance last year, there are surely huge savings that could be made. The drones can also fly at night, thereby minimising disruption to traffic too.

Police and fire-fighting Most police forces in the UK now either have their own drone team or are sharing resources to take advantage of this technology and the feedback has been phenomenal. This technology has proved a game changer on many levels. Wiltshire Police state that: “Drones allow us to pre-position each unit be before we deploy from the ground and it is also great for capturing evidence. Drones are a massive game-changer. We can see what’s going on and watch the movement of people.

Having footage go straight to the control room in real time is so beneficial. You can’t write this stuff.”

DSG provide unmanned acquisition services.

Special UK CAA special operating case permissions allow access for specific studies of environmental locations and DSG provide one off or contracted periodic return to monitor as required. Drone in the Box technology now allows us to leave a Drone at a loc location for remote monitoring On-Demand.

We survey Flood events, building failures, Cycle lane monitoring, illegal Dumping, Construction overspills, Security checks, Agricultural Data, Disaster and Aid for population assistance, imagery and remote data gathering. DSG use Multi-Copter and Fixed Wing drones which carry varying Data ga gathering payloads to cover large or small areas, Thermal Camera, Gas sniffers, Special case sensors for specific data, Methane, Co2 and spillages. Infrastructure: Towers, Wind Turbine maintenance and Wind Farm construction progress. Project monitoring to provide data for management of long term complex problems as HS2 or Crossrail, information all of which is difficult to gather by surveyors now drones are most suited for.

Operating in the new U-Class below 400ft airspace which is to become the future operating zone of UTM (unmanned Traffic Management). In this environment BYLOS (beyond the line of sight) for delivery drones and data gathering will be available for data.

Tel: +44 (0) 1844 27 90 60 Email: d data@droneservices.global Website: http://www.droneservices.global

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