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A California-based anti-drone agency protected the world’s most outstanding financial discussion board for the second 12 months within the row, partnering with native police to mitigate potential rogue UAV flights.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Dedrone, a software program safety firm that focuses on airspace safety, deployed its anti-drone tools to protect the 2018 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland from potential airborne threats.
Last 12 months, the corporate deployed the Drone Tracker system to observe airspace together with different drone-mitigation corporations.
Dedrone CEO Joerg Lamprecht explains:
“The [meeting] is headlined by the world’s most compelling politicians, scientists, and leaders, who have security teams dedicated to every aspect of their travel. The police of the Canton of Graubünden recognize the risks that drones pose, and for the second year in a row, have relied on Dedrone’s technology to protect their airspace.”
The firm’s software program platform detects aerial intrusions, gives early warning of rogue drone flights and is used to guard knowledge facilities, prisons, airports and different crucial amenities from, company espionage, smuggling, terrorism and hacking.
In 2016, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department employed DeDrone to supply each drone detection and counter-drone options throughout a presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
“With Dedrone, we have found a completely reliable and innovative partner who complements our protective measures in the area of drone defense with their technology,” a Graubünden Canton Police spokesperson mentioned.
The firm’s string of successes has made the VC world take discover. In 2017, the corporate secured $15 million in Series B funding spherical led by Felicis Ventures and by John Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco, who personally invested within the firm.
A number of months in the past, Dedrone launched its “next generation software upgrade,” DroneTracker three which incorporates automated abstract reporting for immediate prognosis of drone airspace exercise. The improve contains:
- Automated abstract reporting, enabling safety personnel to instantaneously assess and analyze drone threats
- Enterprise-grade safety and administration, permitting for multi-user administration and seamless integration into present safety packages
- Increased simplification of platform arrange, creating an intuitive and quick-to-deploy system.
