security
Home Security With Drones
The Sunflower Home Awareness System promises a new approach to home security. “The system consists of these two parts,” founder Alex Pachikov said. “There are really advanced sensors that you place around your property. These can detect motion, vibration and sound. In the event that you want to take a closer look at something, you can then deploy a drone to investigate what’s happening and send ba...
How To Hijack A Drone
Concerns about drone safety have risen as more and more people are becoming pilots and the air space around things like forest fires and other natural disasters becomes more crowded. While there are those who believe that the only way to take a drone out of the air is with a shotgun, others have come up with more sophisticated methods for stopping unwanted air traffic. One such method is a small h...
Flying Security Guards
The drone startup Aptonomy has developed an aerial security guard on the back of a DJI S-1000+ drone. The drone is equipped with visible as well as infrared lighting, a loudspeaker, a microphone, facial recognition software, and, of course, a high definition camera to capture any suspicious activity. This “flying security guard” could be used in many places where humans find it difficu...
Dedrone Announces A Complete Drone Detection System
Drones are here to stay. As the technology progresses and takes hold, there will be more and more of them in the sky. Dedrone, a company founded in Germany and now headquartered in California has come up with a system of hardware and software to track drones and deliver real time information about the whereabouts and status of drones in your airspace. The DroneTracker uses a combination of acousti...