If
you were hoping to get some sweet drone footage of a NASCAR race in progress, you may find
your quadcopter grounded unceremoniously by a mysterious force: DroneShield is
bringing its anti-drone tech to NASCAR events at the Texas Motor Speedway.
The company makes a
handful of products, all aimed at detecting and safely intercepting drones that
are flying where they shouldn’t. That’s a growing problem, of course, and not
just at airports or Area 51. A stray drone at a major sporting event could fall
and interrupt the game, or strike someone, or at a race it may even cause a
major accident.
Most recently it
introduced a new version of its handheld “DroneGun,” which scrambles the
UAV’s signal so that it has no choice but to safely put itself down, as these
devices are generally programmed to do. You can’t buy one — technically,
they’re illegal — but the police sure can.
Recently
DroneShield’s tech was deployed at the Commonwealth
Games in Brisbane and at the Olympics in
PyeongChang, and now the company has announced that it was tapped by a number
of Texas
“We are proud to be
able to assist a high-profile event like this,” said Oleg Vornik, DroneShield’s
CEO, in an email announcing the news. “We also believe that this is significant
for DroneShield in that this is the first known live operational use of all
three of our key products – DroneSentinel, DroneSentry and DroneGun – by U.S.
It’s a big get for a
company that clearly saw an opportunity in the growing drone market (in
combating it, really) and executed well on it.
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