{"id":384666,"date":"2019-01-13T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightstalking.com\/?p=384666"},"modified":"2020-07-21T07:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:29:32","slug":"miami-beach-starts-using-blimps-after-florida-drone-ban-comes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lightstalking.com\/miami-beach-starts-using-blimps-after-florida-drone-ban-comes-into-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach Starts Using Blimps After Florida Drone Ban Comes Into Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Drones get a bad rap, that\u2019s for sure, but they offer a lot of advantages in certain areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those is helping police and emergency personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image by Caleb Woods<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But a recent law in Florida banning the use of drones in monitoring private citizens has caused the police department there to get a little creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, they\u2019re bringing back an old – but classic – technology to help them get around the Freedom from Unwanted Surveillance Act, passed in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FStoppers describes<\/a> the Miami Beach device as a \u201ctethered aerostat\u201d that has a camera gimbal attached to its bottom. If that sounds a lot like a drone to you, it does to us and FStoppers as well though remarkably less agile and controllable we would imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Miami Beach officials think that the device meets all of their needs and doesn\u2019t violate the Florida law. Citing its necessity in crowd control and for monitoring for situations like terrorism, the city manager Jimmy Morales said of the blimp that it \u201cprovided an ideal vantage point in an unobtrusive manner, with a sleek, yet friendly look.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FStoppers also points out that several companies online sell tethered aerostats as \u201clight than air\u201d drones. How that comports with the Freedom from Unwanted Surveillance Act, we don\u2019t know, but the blimp has made a public appearance already at a December 28 sporting event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 was a wild year for drones<\/a>, with the Gatwick airport incident topping off what can only be described as a stream of headlines bemoaning the social ills these innovative devices bring. Unwanted surveillance is definitely a concern but not one as common as the fear that malicious UAV pilots will use their drones for terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear for that is so overwhelming that airports in the UK were closed based on the mere allegation of a drone being the vicinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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