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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

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Re: QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

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Post by tamimio »

ck2 wrote: post #3

if it can spot/track drones that is a marketing opportunity for airports around the world that have to deal with drone nonsense which shut down flights for days

There are more way advanced systems for cuas, where they infuse radar and visual and acoustic plus now AI to minimize the false positives, but practically speaking, they are not bullet proof and still fail. RID (remote ID) is a way to have a cooperative communication and was mandated in US, but there are ways too to spoof it and cloak it.

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Post by nradov »

ck2 wrote: post #3

if it can spot/track drones that is a marketing opportunity for airports around the world that have to deal with drone nonsense which shut down flights for days

Yes, primary radar has been useful for detecting airspace incursions since 1939. Nothing new here.

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Post by aeturnum »

Neat! SDRs have been available at reasonable price points for some time but the processing power to engage with wifi and other digital signals has been somewhat elusive. Assuming RAM can be purchased in the future, I think we might see a lot more prosumer-targeted devices for doing raw signal analysis in the future.

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

> If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine what governments are capable of.

Since ~2022 and accelerated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, governments are now behind both private and open source for frontier technology.

The companies that captured government contracts in the last century can’t move fast enough to bring tech into the government and national technology policy and funding is collapsing compared to the private sector

That’s new in history

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Post by adolph »

tamimio wrote: post #7

It should be more specific, it spots RC drones operated on ~5.8ghz, it won’t spot RC on 900mhz, nor cellular enabled ones.

Is that a limitation of the antenna? I though QuadRF uses SDR so can see many frequencies, not just the wifi things like ESPARGOS [0]

From documentation, QuadRF: Operating frequency range of 4.9 - 6.0 GHz (C-Band).

0. https://espargos.net/

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AndrewKemendo wrote: post #14

> If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine what governments are capable of. Since ~2022 and accelerated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, governments are now behind both private and open source for frontier technology. The companies that captured government contracts in the last century can’t move fast enough to bring tech into the government and national technology pol…

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Post by vatsachak »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #14

> If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine what governments are capable of. Since ~2022 and accelerated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, governments are now behind both private and open source for frontier technology. The companies that captured government contracts in the last century can’t move fast enough to bring tech into the government and national technology pol…

Open source is the future. If everyone can work on it, we get better results for cheaper.

Open source doesn't mean the end of competition, since we are a competitive species.

I think the future economy is going to be some sort of UBI + large open source projects

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