A European startup is now marketing a consumer anti-drone system that’s designed to detect and report unmanned aircraft flying in a specified range of airspace. The company, Dedrone, is marketing the system to prisons, corporations, event planners — or anyone else concerned about unauthorised drones spying, smuggling or otherwise causing security concerns.
The system’s hardware element is called the DroneTracker. Built into a weatherproof 16-inch platform, the device uses an array of sensors — including video cameras, acoustical sensors and near-infrared cameras — to watch the skies, day and night. Each DroneTracker can monitor a patch of airspace in a 120-degree arc of coverage out to a range of 100 meters.
Dedrone, based in Kassel Germany with an office in Charleston, W. Va., also provides the software system, which uses a browser-based interface and cloud-based data storage. The DroneTracker is designed to be easily configured and deployed, so that users could set up a temporary drone detection perimeter at public events.
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