A suitable startup called Sky Sapience has created a bound hovercraft that can send its monitoring mechanism to a height of up to 50 meters. This surveillance drone weighs 10 kg and is called HoverMast. This advanced multifunctional surveillance machine can carry up to 9 kg of various surveillance and wireless data transmission equipment on a broadband communication channel. Israel-based Sky Sapience will showcase its innovative inventions at the International Unmanned Systems Association International Conference in Tel Aviv from March 20 to 22.
The HoverMast tether acts as its power cord, powering the institution, and provides a broadband cable to retransmit the information to the main station. It’s light weight, so anyone can drive it wherever you want to install it. It is connected to the roof or other vehicles, such as trucks, UGV and UPS (unmanned ground or ground vehicles) or off-road vehicles. HoverMast can even be used in travel, due to its aerodynamic shape and rotor with propeller, it can effectively resist gusts. Just press the button to activate this surveillance drone.
The main customer of Sky Sapience is the Israeli Ministry of Defense, which requested the use of this hovering platform two years ago. Sky Sapience positions its HoverMast unmanned aerial vehicle as a special military observation device, border control device and size control. Because it is connected, it is not subject to strict air control regulations, making it easier for police and Homeland Security to use HoverMast.
Sky Sapience will begin production of these hover masts in the fall. The future price issues of these monitoring devices are still outstanding.
As far as I can see, when such tethered surveillance drones are available on the market, this will be a huge temptation for bad guys. However, with all the currently available HoverMast attributes, all you can do is prevent Sky Sapience HoverMast from sending the recorded video elsewhere, because you cannot block the data that passes through the tape. Even if you want to prevent this data transmission, you must keep a close enough distance to the floating drone, because it can fly 50 meters high, and the maximum interference radius of the desktop sound machine is 40 meters.
Yes, there are more powerful models, but they can only handle such mobile phone signals, so they will not completely block wireless transmission, or they are powerful military gps blocker, developed only by the government for military purposes, such as those Carry the soldier in a backpack. As you can see, Israel MoD is a customer of Sky Sapience, for a reason.