Delhi Police to use DRDO Netra for street surveillance Netra, the light weight UAV fitted with night vision cameras, will be used by Delhi Police to patrol the streets of the national capital. The device has already been used by security agencies like BSF, CRPF for counter-insurgency activities while NDRF used it to search for survivors during the Uttarakhand flash floods that took place in 2013. The UAV, jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)) and IdeaForge, a Mumbai-based private firm, had also appeared in the Amir Khan-starrer 3 Idiots. We would in all probability use Netra. We have asked its developers to tweak a few things as per our needs, said a senior police official. The model currently available is quite costly as it has Kevlar (an armour), which we dont need here in urban landscape. Secondly, wind shear and all weather IBM toughpad are not exactly our requirement. So if these can be dropped and cost comes down, it would suit our needs, he added.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 04:23:50 +0000
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