The company is trying to use drone jammers to protect crowded events from drone attacks
With the development of science and technology, drones often appear in crowded activities. As a modern technological tool, drones are used in many fields. Technology is a double-edged sword, and it follows that it is used in inappropriate ways by terrorists and illegal groups, such as voyeurism, terrorist attacks, stalking, theft, and other illegal acts; at this time, it is necessary to defend against illegal drones and counter-jamming.
DroneShield is a specialized anti-drone technology company that uses a series of sensors that scan the skies for poorly timed drones that could be used for malicious purposes. Once a drone is detected, capturing the drone is the more difficult part of the mission, as there are certain security risks associated with shooting down a drone. To give governments and customers a way to stop drones without bullets, DroneShield has developed a gun-shaped drone jammer with the shape of a rifle and the aesthetic of weapons in Final Fantasy games.
To identify drones, DroneShield trained artificial intelligence on drone feature matching and intelligently matched parameters captured by cameras. DroneShield also uses a number of different types of detection technologies, from wearable sensors to standalone sentinel towers. Sentinel towers can contain sensors, radar, and cameras that provide passive RF detection to detect and identify drones, and can even install signal jammers.
These sensors operate at different distances, creating increasingly clear areas of overlap in what can be seen and tracked.
On May 5, DroneShield announced a series of new contracts that include ground-based radar and radio frequency sensors, as well as software to identify and track drones.
While most of DroneShield's products are designed to detect and track commercial drones in secure airspace, it turns out the tools have real military use. That includes working in battlefield environments like Ukraine.
"We've shipped and are currently discussing wanting to ship more to the Ukrainians," Volnick said, without specifying which products were sold to Ukraine. In an investor presentation in April 2022, the company noted that it had completed its first sale to Ukraine and received good feedback on the ground. "We found it interesting that our product seemed to work well in that environment. We were really excited to see how it would perform. It seems that the Russians, at least on some of their drones, are using Western commercial off-the-shelf parts, particularly something like the Orlan-10 drone that's getting a lot of buzz in the news.
"Western forces have used our product in Syria, our first use in that situation," Volnick said, "and it's been well received." The use includes systems like the DroneGun jammer.
While DroneShield is willing to talk about use cases for those systems, the details of actually shooting down the drones are less clear, in part because of commitments to military or law enforcement agencies that use DroneGun or other products.
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