Mantis Siskin: Skysafe designed to catch "illegal" UAV-unmanned aircraft-IT information
Popularity with civilian UAV, more and more people are concerned about unmanned aerial vehicles of the security issues, privacy issues. For example, the world's first recorded unmanned aircraft and civil aircraft collisions, and attracted worldwide attention. Prior to this, drone shot out indecent video, renewed interest in unmanned aerial vehicles pose a privacy risk.
Previously, Indiegogo appeared on a special surveillance drone near DroneShield. Recently, another more aggressive company, Skysafe, also involved in the drone intercepts to be "illegal" drones ' catcher, received $ 3 million in financing from A16Z.
From the website description of view, SkySafe uses radio waves to identify unauthorized drone, its operators, and remote control of these drones, deported them to safe areas. If necessary, also can directly destroy these drones. SkySafe is shown on an operator interface, with a "softdisable", "harddisable" and "fly" three options, corresponding to different treatments.
Specific technical implementation, website and not doing too much description, but showed a destroyed drone demo video (see video below). SkySafe Grant, the founder of Jordan has in the United States air force, disorder would then probably illegal threats for unmanned airspace safety deep feeling, may also accumulate related technology at the time.
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In addition to technical issues, SkySafe one of the main problems is how to promote the technology. For now, this is a radical project of an enemy of the vast majority of UAV manufacturers and does not pull the component of partnership or endorsement, it is difficult to active support from the manufacturers.
However, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on 2016-2036 forecast for the aerospace industry, in the next four years, drone above us is now number 3 times. FAA predicted that by 2020, United States consumer drones and commercial unmanned opportunities from 2.5 million to 7 million vehicles. By then, certainly needs the relevant legal instruments or technical means to ensure order and security of the airspace below 300 meters.
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伴随着民用小型无人机普及，越来越多的人关注无人机带来的安全问题、隐私问题。比如，近期世界第一起有记录的无人机和民航机相撞事件，引起了全球广泛的关注。此前，无人机拍摄户外不雅视频，使人们再度关注无人机带来的隐私风险。
此前，在Indiegogo上就出现过一款专门监测附近无人机的产品DroneShield 。近期，另一家更激进的公司Skysafe，还要涉足无人机拦截，要做“非法”无人机的捕手，获得了来自A16Z的300万美元融资。
从官网介绍来看，SkySafe会通过无线电波来识别未经授权的非法无人机，追溯其运营商，并远程控制这些无人机，把它们驱逐到安全区域。必要时，也会直接摧毁这些无人机。上图展示了SkySafe的一个操作界面，上面有“softdisable”“harddisable”和“fly”三种选项，对应不同的处理措施。
至于具体的技术实现手段，官网并没有做太多说明，只是展示了一段摧毁无人机的演示视频（见下面视频）。SkySafe的创始人Grant Jordan此前曾在美国空军工作，很可能那时就对无序的非法无人机威胁空域安全深有感触，也可能在当时就积攒了相关的技术。
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除了技术问题，对于SkySafe面临的一个主要问题，就是如何推广这项技术。目前来看，这是一个与绝大多数无人机厂商为敌的激进项目，不拉到有分量的合作伙伴或者背书方，很难得到大厂的主动支持。
不过，据联邦航空管理局（FAA）对2016-2036年对航空航天行业的预测来看，在接下来的四年里，我们头顶上无人机的数量会是现在的3倍。FAA预估到2020年，美国的消费者无人机和商业无人机会从250万架增加到700万架。到那时，肯定需要相关的法律手段或者技术手段来保证300米以下空域的秩序与安全。