The secure Dual-Comms option (Fiber optic and BPL), offers a redundant tethered data link, or the possibility to select which technology is best suited for the aircraft and/or payload. “With up to 2,2 kW max continuous power and 2,8 kW peak power, the Safe-T 2 allows for higher flights with heavier payloads, thus enabling security forces to cover larger areas with a single system.” We rethought the entire solution in order to build the perfect tethering system for critical security operations.” Said Timothée PENET, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Elistair. “To design the Safe-T 2, we worked in close collaboration with our users who challenged us with their critical feedback. The Safe-T 2 will take tethering operations to a new level. The Safe-T 2 has been built on the success of the flagship Safe-T product line which has been deployed in over 60 countries by governmental organisations, industrial groups, and security forces. Since the launch of its first tethering station in 2015, Elistair has quickly become the industry leader in tethered drone systems, with over 600 tethered stations deployed so far to help security forces monitor events, secure sites and protect assets. The Safe-T 2 provides users with unmatched power efficiency and enables safe and persistent flight time for UAVs. Key Features include, IP54 rating, up to 125m / 400 feet of micro-tether, 2 200 watts max continuous power, a fiber optics option, and industry leading weight/power ratio from its patented Dynamic Voltage Optimization (DVO). “Our thinking about this is still in its very nascent stages,” says Clarke, “and it shouldn’t be, because drones have been around a long time.Elistair has announced the release of the Safe-T 2, their most advanced and powerful tethering system for use with commercially available drones. But the Pennsylvania attempt, while unsuccessful, underscores how urgent the threat has become-a warning that some have sounded for years. It’s certainly welcome news that regulatory bodies are taking drones seriously. Assessing more proactive defensive measures would likely take even longer. The agency plans to expand that program to other airports, but the research and testing phase could take at least 18 months, according to the report. And on Thursday, Hearst Television reported on recent drone detection tests that the FAA undertook at New Jersey’s Atlantic City International Airport. New rules governing the remote identification of drones in flight, and their ability to fly over people and at night, took effect in April. There has been some recent traction at the FAA, as well. The agency's Science and Technology Directorate oversees counter-UAS research in search of systems that are effective but not overly disruptive. Outfitting every single power substation in the US with drone countermeasures would also present significant financial and logistical hurdles.įor its part, DHS only received legal authority to disrupt or destroy threatening drones with the 2018 Preventing Emerging Threats Act. And more aggressive anti-drone technology, which can range from signal-jamming guns to megadrones to eagles, often face regulatory challenges of their own.

'The agency works closely with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state, local, and tribal security partners to support investigations into malicious drone activity.'Ĭountermeasures like geofencing certain areas, which prevents compliant drones from flying there, are effective to a point, but the process for designating those spaces remains something of a patchwork, says Clarke.

'The FAA is aware of the July 2020 incident in Pennsylvania,' the agency said in a statement. The agency has rulemaking underway to address that requirement, a provision of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016, but did not provide a specific timeline.

“The FAA is still dragging its feet on its congressionally mandated requirement to develop procedures for critical infrastructure locations to request airspace restriction,” Lisberg says.

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