Thermal Camera Drone by DJI & FLIR

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced a new technology collaboration with DJI Innovations. Under the strategic arrangement, the companies also announced plans to develop their first joint product, the DJI Zenmuse XT stabilized camera featuring FLIR’s thermal imaging technology for DJI’s Inspire 1 and Matrice aerial platforms.

Combining DJI’s Zenmuse stabilized micro-gimbal technology, which has become a common platform for demanding aerial cinematography, with FLIR’s popular Tau 2 thermal imaging camera core, the Zenmuse XT will expand the possibilities for commercial drone operators and infrastructure inspectors. Using FLIR thermal imaging on small drones brings new capabilities to dozens of commercial applications, including search and rescue, firefighting, agriculture, wildlife protection, and the inspection of energy infrastructure, bridges, and buildings.

Status Field Workflow in Cumulus 10

In this demo, we will show how to setup custom workflow fields to let the user know whether an asset is ready for editing.

STEP 1: Create a new Metadata Template in Preferences -> Metadata Templates. With the "Default Metadata Template" selected, click "Duplicate". Give the new template a name and enable the "Allow sharing" checkbox, and click "OK". In this example, I use the name "Demo Edit Status"

STEP 2: Go to Preferences -> Catalog Settings -> Record Fields -> Add Field... Select "Custom Field" tab and use Field Type -> String List. Enter a Field Name, example "Demo Image Status", and click "OK".

STEP 3: Highlight your new record field, and click "Properties..."

STEP 4: Go to the "String List Editor" tab and add the status values you want. Here I use two values, "Do Not Edit" and "Ready For Edit"

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Set Category for New Assets in Cumulus 10

Customer requested all new assets uploaded automatically get assigned specific category titled "INCOMING". Users will then check in the new assets and move them to production categories when they are ready.

STEP 1: Right-click "$Categories" in your catalog to select "New Category..." Give it a title, for this demo we will use "INCOMING"

STEP 2: Go to Preferences -> Catalog Settings -> Record Fields -> Categories -> Properties... From the Field Properties window, click the Field Values tab. Then select the checkbox for "Use Initial Value", set the path to "$Categories:INCOMING", and click "OK"

STEP 3: To test, load some new assets into your catalog and confirm they are automatically assigned to the new category.

Scheduling Reports in Cumulus 10

In this example, we will setup a daily report to show the top successful search terms.

STEP 1: Run the Cumulus Scheduler installer. After it is finished, open and edit the "config.xml" file located at /usr/local/Cumulus_Scheduler/config.xml

STEP 2: In the config.xml file, change password="pass" to the actual password for Cumulus. This gives the scheduler access to run.

STEP 3: Run the two scheduler shell scripts from terminal. Start the "CumulusScheduler.sh"

/usr/local/Cumulus_Scheduler/InstallCumulusSchedulerService.sh
/usr/local/Cumulus_Scheduler/CumulusScheduler.sh start

STEP 4: Create your report in Server Console -> Report Manager -> Create... For Report Type, select "Top Successful Search Terms". Also choose your dates and the catalog you want the report to run on. When you are ready, click "OK" to save it.

STEP 5: While still in Server Console, go to Scheduler Manager -> Create... -> Add Task. For Scheduler Action, select "Generate Usage and Statistics Report", and choose your catalog. Click "Configure..." to set your output folder where the reports will be saved. Set your date and time you want the scheduler to run and click "OK".

STEP 6: Activate your new task in Scheduler Manager.

STEP 7: Your task should show a green checkmark. Click "Run Now" to test output. Report will be generated with a datestamp in filename, for example: "ReportTest01_2015-12-07_13-11-49.txt"

STEP 8: Report is tab-separated test file. Screenshot example when opened in Excel:

STEP 9: That's it. If you get any error messages, or don't see your reports being generated, you can check details in the scheduler logs at:

/usr/local/Cumulus_Scheduler/logs/schedulerserver.log
/usr/local/Cumulus_Scheduler/logs/wrapper.log

Advanced Search in Cumulus 10

How to customize your catalog search to look for multiple parameters. In this case, customer wants to define multiple keyword parameters.

General search behavior (for Cumulus Client, Web/CWC, Sites, & Portals)

- Searching with an empty search field finds all files
- Two or more terms entered are combined with AND
- Terms separated with two pipes (||) are combined with OR
- Terms enclosed in double quotation marks ("") are handled as a single phrase search
- Prepending a term with a minus symbol (-) excludes that term

STEP 1: Click on the down arrow icon next to the search bar magnifying glass.

STEP 2: This will open the Find Records window. From there click on the "New Condition" in the top right corner. I've marked it with the red circle in the screenshot below.

STEP 3: To select your search parameters and conditions, click the pulldown menus on the left.

STEP 4: There are a lot of search options. Screenshot:

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New Amazon Prime Delivery Drone

The new Prime Air drone isn’t just a quadcopter anymore. It still takes off and lands vertically, but then it switches to a regular horizontal flight mode, which is far more efficient. It’s basically part helicopter, part airplane. With this new design, the drone can cover over 15 miles and fly over 55 mph, Amazon says. In the video, Clarkson says Amazon is working on a family of drones for different environments and purposes.