School uses drone surveillance to curb cheating in exam
A small drone flies through the examination hall and transmits live video feeds to the monitor.
Belgium: (Dunya News) – A Belgian school has found an unusual way of preventing cheating during exams. As per reports, the school uses surveillance drones to constantly keep an eye on the students in the examination hall and monitoring is done live through the feeds collected by this small sized drone.
The drone used is the size of a bird and is equipped with surveillance cameras efficient enough to clearly record the movement in the examination room. The practicality of using such a system is still questionable as the cost of using such a drone is unclear and reportedly, such a drone has a flying time of 15 minutes which is shorter than the span of any normal exam.
What’s become of this experiment is unclear; however the civilian interest in using drone technology is considerably on the rise. Only a few weeks ago, global ecommerce giant Amazon announced its experiment of delivering products to its customer through a drone instead of regular mail delivery.
Currently, drones are heavily used for military purposes, noteworthy of which are the fighter drones equipped with missiles dubbed as ‘hellfire’, and surveillance drones used by intelligence agencies. Military drones can tactfully bypass radar tracking, making their presence hard to track.
