Northwest Florida beaches foreign Airport (ECP) has put in discover's DroneWatcher americadetection and defence equipment.
as soon as fully carried out, the device will encompass observe's DroneWatcher radio frequency (RF), smartphone application and drone surveillance radar (DSR), which together will give a multi‐layered united statesdetection equipment for the airport.
The device is designed to handle the safety and flight security risks posed with the aid of united statesincursions into controlled airspace.
The initial installation contains a DroneWatcher RF sensor on the airport control tower and deployment of varied DroneWatcher app enabled smartphones that may be used by airport police as roving united states of americadetectors. The app turns Android smartphones and tablets into crowdsourced americadetectors.
The next phase will consist of installation of a DroneWatcher DSR at the airport to supply a third layer of UAV detection and defence. The DSR will additionally characteristic as a chook radar, featuring precise‐time chook‐aircraft strike chance signals to airport flight protection managers. UAV incursion indicators and bird strike chance alerts might be provided through customized, precise‐time internet displays and thru computerized textual content messaging.
The installing is expected to be achieved by using the end of may 2017.
