Surveillance goes hi-tech: Train Cable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
With the way the world is constantly engulfed in conflict security attains paramount importance. Safe guarding ones own information & also guarding homeland territory is virtually an endless process in which the battle of wits between those who intrude & those who guard is dependent largely on the technology available to each. Modern technology is a great leveler & can provide an advantage to any one who is on the right side of it. While protecting a territory, the technology used needs to be revamped & must be moving ahead with times as any lapse would mean giving an advantage to those who intend to intrude or escape the eye of surveillance.
An Israeli company named 'Planum Vision' has designed a new system of surveillance which is called as 'Train Cable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TCUAV)'. While it comes as no surprise that an Israeli company is on the fore front of development of such pioneering surveillance system, the entire system seems very unique & also very up-to-date. The technology used by TCUAV is of the most modern electrical cables running an unmanned vehicle for the surveillance purpose. The device also has a zeppelin, which is attached to the "train" unit with a wire, to ensure the continuous supply of electricity.
The zeppelin not only allows a better aerial survey but also offers greater maneuverability. The zeppelin can also be detached & be allowed to take either a designated path or an autonomous path, depending on what the purpose of surveillance is at that point. The TCUAV seems to be ultra-modern both in its design & its execution. It overcomes the traditional flaws of UAV's by not missing any blind spots & also adapts to various terrains. One other major use of TCUAV seems to be the fact that its surveillance path can be altered at ones choice making it very flexible & also not giving away any set patterns of surveillance for the enemy to work with. This quite simply, seems to be the biggest asset of this system.
The UAV systems market is expected to grow by a rate of $13.6 billion until 2014, with approximately 9,000 UAV systems expected to be acquired globally during the next decade. This should come as a surprise to none as it seems that the world is only getting more & more suspicious of everything that surrounds it (& sometimes for good reason). With both a booming & largely unexplored market available, one can pretty safely say that the TCUAV will have quite a few takers across the planet. Of course, that would be only until the next step in surveillance systems is made available. Defense just cannot afford to be stagnant field (& that is why all that money is poured in to it each year, I guess).
