Sunflower Labs Security Beehive Drone-in-a-Box

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby

Today, autonomous security systems innovator Sunflower Labs Inc. announced the distribution of its Beehive System to partners ADT Inc, 10 Federal Self Storage, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), and Security Robotics Development & Solutions GmbH.

The Beehive System is a drone-in-a-box solution capable of expanding any security or video surveillance system. The system consists of a fully autonomous “Bee” drone and a compact “Hive” base station. The Hive houses the brains of the system and processes and analyzes all incoming data using state-of-the-art machine learning and neural networks, as well as rapidly recharges the Bee.

A lightweight drone built for autonomous flight, the Bee features high-quality video capture, rapid recharging, and reliable landing even in adverse weather conditions. It is able to respond to activity on any part of the…