​SECURITY
The DJI Dock 3 is a powerful solution for security operations, enabling fully automated drone deployments for rapid situational awareness.
With its rugged, weather-resistant design and 24/7 charging and readiness, the Dock 3 can dispatch a drone instantly in response to alarms or scheduled patrols.
High-quality imaging, remote live-view, and seamless integration with security platforms allow teams to monitor large or hard-to-reach areas in real time, improving response times and enhancing overall site protection while reducing the need for constant human patrols.
ENHANCING
SECURITY OPERATIONS
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The DJI Dock 3 creates a fully automated security drone system—patrolling perimeters, responding to alerts, providing live intelligence, and operating continuously regardless of weather or time of day. It strengthens security posture, lowers labour costs, and dramatically improves situational awareness across large, complex, or high-risk sites.
Automated On-Demand Drone Deployment
The Dock 3 stores, charges, and protects a drone so it is always ready to fly.
Security benefit:
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Instant response to alarms, perimeter breaches, or suspicious activity—no human pilot needed.
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Reduces response times from minutes to seconds.
High Resolution & Thermal Imaging
Compatible drones (e.g., Matrice 4D/4TD) offer zoom cameras, wide-angle views, and thermal sensors.
Security benefit:
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Detect intruders day or night, even through low-light or foggy conditions.
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Spot hidden individuals using heat signatures, ideal for large sites or rural areas.
Remote Control Centre Integration
Live video feeds and mission controls can be accessed from a command room or remote monitoring site.
Security benefit:
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Centralised command can oversee multiple sites from anywhere.
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Operators can track intruders, zoom in, take snapshots, or send alerts in real time.
Large Area Coverage & Hard To Reach Zones
A single Dock 3 can oversee vast perimeters—industrial parks, ports, warehouses, energy storage sites, or campuses.
Security benefit:
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Reaches areas that are unsafe, remote, or time-consuming for guards to patrol.
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Reduces costs by replacing or augmenting ground security patrols.
Scheduled Autonomous Patrols
You can pre-program routes around perimeters, rooftops, blind spots, or restricted areas.
Security benefit:
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Continuous, consistent surveillance without fatigue or human error.
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Routine patrols deter intruders and provide documented evidence of site activity.
24/7 All Weather Operation
With IP-rated durability, heating, cooling, and dust protection, the Dock 3 works in harsh conditions.
Security benefit:
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Reliable surveillance during storms, cold nights, high heat, or dusty environments.
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Maintains protection when ground patrols may be unsafe or limited.
Auto Data Upload & Cloud Integration
Flight logs, video, and thermal data upload directly to secure cloud platforms (DJI FlightHub 2, Flytbase). GeoAerospace are authorised resellers of DJI & Flytbase.
Security benefit:
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Easy playback for incident reviews and investigations.
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Seamless reporting and compliance proof for regulated sites.
Integration with Alarm Systems
The Dock 3 can be triggered by motion sensors, perimeter alarms, or access control systems.
Security benefit:
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Automated drone dispatch the moment an incident is detected.
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Provides immediate aerial confirmation to reduce false alarms.
PUBLIC SAFETY
The DJI Dock 3 is a powerful solution for security operations, enabling fully automated drone deployments for rapid situational awareness.
With its rugged, weather-resistant design and 24/7 charging and readiness, the Dock 3 can dispatch a drone instantly in response to alarms or scheduled patrols.
High-quality imaging, remote live-view, and seamless integration with security platforms allow teams to monitor large or hard-to-reach areas in real time, improving response times and enhancing overall site protection while reducing the need for constant human patrols.
ENHANCING
PUBLIC SAFETY OPERATIONS
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The DJI Dock 3 provides public safety agencies with always-ready, automated aerial support that improves emergency response times, enhances situational awareness, increases responder safety, and provides essential intelligence for managing incidents. It becomes a force multiplier for police, fire, and rescue teams, enabling faster, smarter, and safer operations.
Rapid Automated Emergency Response
The Dock 3 stores and charges a ready-to-launch drone that can deploy instantly when an emergency occurs.
Public safety benefit:
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Responds to incidents (fires, traffic accidents, crimes, missing persons) within seconds.
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Provides immediate aerial visuals before personnel arrive on scene.
Autonomous Patrol & Area Monitoring
Missions can be pre-programmed to patrol critical areas such as city centres, high-crime zones, public events, or disaster-prone regions.
Public safety benefit:
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Detects issues before they escalate.
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Supports proactive policing, crowd management, and early incident detection.
All Weather
24/7 Operation
The Dock 3’s rugged, weather-resistant design ensures continuous operation in harsh weather, extreme temperatures, or dusty environments.
Public safety benefit:
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Guarantees aerial support during storms, night operations, or disaster conditions.
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Maintains public safety coverage when manned aircraft are unavailable.
Incident Documentation & Evidence Capture
All video, imagery, and flight data are securely uploaded to cloud platforms for review.
Public safety benefit:
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Supports investigations, court cases, and after-action reporting.
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Helps agencies analyse response effectiveness and improve future operations.
Real-Time Situational Awareness
The drone streams live high-resolution and thermal imagery to command centres or field units.
Public safety benefit:
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Incident commanders can assess hazards, crowd movement, fire spread, or suspect locations.
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Enables better resource deployment and safer decision-making.
Thermal Imaging for Search & Rescue
With thermal sensors (Matrice 4TD), the drone can locate heat signatures of missing persons or suspects even in darkness or foliage.
Public safety benefit:
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Speeds up search efforts in forests, riversides, parks, or disaster zones.
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Reduces risk to rescue teams by offering aerial overwatch.
Safe Distance Monitoring
The drone can provide close-up views of dangerous environments such as:
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Active fires
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Chemical spills
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Hostage/barricade situations
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Flooded areas
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Keeps responders out of harm’s way until the scene is assessed.
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Enables safer and more informed tactical planning.
Multi Site Coverage
A network of Dock 3 units can cover entire towns, industrial areas, or critical infrastructure zones.
Public safety benefit:
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Provides "drone-as-first-responder" (DFR) capability.
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Ensures rapid aerial support anywhere within the coverage area.
ELECTRICITY & ENERGY PROVIDERS
Transmission and Distribution inspections are crucial for preventing power losses and line failures. Automated drone flights can perform daily inspections of transmission lines, allowing for early identification of defects.
With thermal cameras, these drones can detect abnormal high temperatures in equipment, enabling timely fault detection and the prevention of system failures.
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Patrol problem areas and identify issues become they become outages.
ENHANCING ELECTRICITY NETWORK OPERATIONS
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For electricity network operators, the DJI Dock 3 becomes a critical smart-grid tool, offering automated inspections, rapid fault response, precise thermal analysis, and continuous monitoring of transmission and distribution assets. It enhances reliability, improves safety, reduces downtime, and enables more efficient, proactive maintenance of essential electrical infrastructure.
Automated Asset Inspection
The Dock 3 enables pre-scheduled or on-demand flights along transmission lines, substations, and distribution corridors.
Utility benefit:
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Reduces manual inspection cycles from months to days.
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Identifies issues such as damaged insulators, vegetation encroachment, loose fittings, or hotspots before they cause outages.
Rapid Response to Outages & Alarms
When faults occur, the Dock 3 can dispatch a drone instantly to inspect the affected area.
Utility benefit:
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Speeds up fault location significantly compared to ground patrols.
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Helps crews understand the situation before arriving, reducing downtime and improving safety.
All Weather
24/7 Operation
The Dock 3 is built to operate in rain, high heat, cold, dust, or coastal environments.
Utility benefit:
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Ensures continual monitoring during storms or extreme weather—times when the grid is most vulnerable.
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Ideal for remote or hard-to-access sites.
Safe Access to Hazardous & Remote Areas
The drone can reach:
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Mountainous corridors
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Marshlands
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Rural/remote substations
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High-voltage towers
Utility benefit: -
Reduces the need for line workers to enter dangerous or difficult terrain.
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Shortens inspection times and increases worker safety.
Digital Records & Predictive Analytics
All inspection data automatically uploads to cloud platforms for analysis.
Utility benefit:
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Supports digital twin models and long-term asset health monitoring.
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Enables data-driven maintenance schedules and improves regulatory reporting.
Fault Detection WITH Thermal Imaging
With thermal cameras on compatible drones (e.g., Matrice 4TD), hotspots, overloads, and failing components can be detected early.
Utility benefit:
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Prevents equipment failure and power interruptions.
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Enables predictive maintenance instead of reactive repairs.
Continuous Monitoring of Critical Sites
Substations, high-voltage switching stations, and HV/MV transformers can be monitored via recurring autonomous missions.
Utility benefit:
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Provides near-real-time updates on asset condition.
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Supports 24/7 oversight without increasing staffing.
Integration of SCADA & Outage Management Systems
The Dock 3 can be triggered by automated alerts such as:
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Line trips
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Transformer overheating
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Intrusion alarms
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Fault indicators
Utility benefit: -
Provides instant aerial verification of grid events.
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Reduces false alarms and prioritizes dispatch decisions.
Cost Efficiency Through Automation
One Dock 3 can replace dozens of manual patrol hours each week.
Utility benefit:
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Lower operational costs.
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Reduced helicopter use, vehicle mileage, and site visits.
SOLAR & RENEWABLE
The DJI Dock 3 enables you to automate recurring Solar Farm inspection tasks with ease.
Schedule an inspection task, and the DJI Dock 3 will automatically collect the data and upload the findings to the DJI FlightHub 2 cloud platform for comprehensive analysis and processing.
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Automate thermal PV inspections and security patrols of your assets onsite.
DJI Dock combined with Enterprise level drones can precisely identify and locate defects in solar farms by utilising high-definition visible light and thermal imaging. This facilitates early fault detection and preventive maintenance, thereby improving the quality and efficiency of photovoltaic power stations.
ENHANCING SOLAR & RENEWABLE OPERATIONS
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For utility-scale solar farms, the DJI Dock 3 offers automated, precise, and continuous aerial monitoring that improves performance analysis, speeds up fault detection, increases worker safety, and reduces operational costs. It transforms solar maintenance from reactive to predictive, ensuring higher energy output and more efficient asset management.
Automated PV Panel Inspections
The Dock 3 can run scheduled or on-demand missions across the entire solar array.
Solar benefit:
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Identifies defective, soiled, or underperforming panels.
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Detects hotspots, microcracks, and string failures early.
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Reduces reliance on slow manual ground inspections.
Rapid Fault Localisation
When SCADA or monitoring systems detect drops in production, the Dock 3 can launch immediately to inspect the affected zone.
Solar benefit:
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Speeds up fault identification and reduces diagnostic time.
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Minimises energy loss by enabling faster repair decisions.
Integration with Solar Monitoring Systems
The Dock 3 can be triggered by:
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SCADA alarms
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Inverter faults
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String-level anomalies
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Sudden production drops
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Enables automated aerial verification of performance issues.
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Reduces false alarms and speeds up root-cause analysis.
Increased Worker Safety
Drone inspections replace many hazardous tasks such as:
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Climbing onto panel rows
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Entering remote or uneven terrain
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Working in extreme heat
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Reduces risk of heat exhaustion, slips, and electrical hazards.
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Minimises site exposure for staff.
Major Efficiency & Cost Savings
Single Dock 3 can replace weeks of manual inspection time each year.
Solar benefit:
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Cuts operational costs.
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Shortens inspection cycles dramatically.
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Boosts overall plant efficiency and energy yield.
Thermal Imaging for Performance Analysis
With compatible drones (e.g., Matrice 4TD), thermal sensors produce uniform, high-quality thermographic data.
Solar benefit:
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Quickly reveals hotspots, bypass diode failures, and wiring faults.
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Supports efficient IV-curve testing and performance audits.
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Improves yield by catching faults before they escalate.
Regular Health Monitoring of Large Sites
Large solar plants (50–500+ MW) can be routinely surveyed with autonomous flights.
Solar benefit:
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Provides near-real-time insight into array condition and site performance.
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Avoids the cost of manual UAV operators or site crews.
Vegetation, Erosion & Site Surveillance
Regular missions can monitor site infrastructure, including fencing, access roads, and vegetation.
Solar benefit:
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Detects vegetation growth shading panels.
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Identifies erosion or drainage issues damaging cables or mounting structures.
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Adds security oversight against theft or trespassing.
High Quality Data for Digital Twins & Analytics
All thermal and visual data automatically syncs to cloud platforms.
Solar benefit:
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Enhances digital twin models for long-term performance monitoring.
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Supports predictive maintenance and warranty claims.
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Provides clear inspection history for asset owners or investors.
