Drone-augmented emergency response services

A monitoring system, comprising:

• a plurality of monitoring control units, wherein each respective monitoring control unit is (i) associated with a particular property, and (ii) configured to detect an emergency event based on data received from one or more of a plurality of sensors located throughout the particular property;
• a monitoring application server, wherein the monitoring application server includes:
• a network interface;
• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more storage devices that include instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the one or more processors to:
• receive an emergency event notification from a first monitoring control unit of the plurality of monitoring control units that is located at a first property, wherein the emergency event notification was generated by the first monitoring control unit based on sensor data generated by one or more first sensors located at the first property;
• determine, based on the received emergency event notification that was generated by the first monitoring control unit based on sensor data generated by one or more first sensors located at the first property, (i) a type of emergency event and (ii) a location of the first property that is associated with the emergency event notification;
• identify, based on (i) the type of emergency event, and (ii) the location of the first property that is associated with the emergency event, at least one drone for deployment to the location of the first property that is associated with the emergency event;
• and
• transmit an instruction to a monitoring station server associated with a drone base station that houses one or more drones, wherein the instruction identifies the at least one drone for deployment to the location of the emergency event and is configured to automatically instruct the monitoring station server to deploy the identified at least one drone, without user interaction, to the location of the first property associated with the emergency event;
• a monitoring station server, wherein the monitoring station server includes:
• a second network interface;
• one or more second processors;
• and
• one or more second storage devices that include instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more second processors, to cause the one or more second processors to:
• receive the instruction from the monitoring application server;
• and
• based on the instruction received from the monitoring application server, transmit a second instruction to the at least one drone identified for deployment by the received instruction that instructs the at least one drone to deploy to the location of the emergency event;
• and
• at least one drone, wherein the at least one drone includes:
• a third network interface;
• one or more third processors;
• and
• one or more third storage devices that include instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more third processors, to cause the one or more third processors to:
• deploy to the location of the emergency event based on the second instruction from the monitoring station server;
• and
• perform one or more operations configured as a response to the emergency event.