DroneTrack RF Drone Detection System
Detection and direction finding of drone command, control, telemetry and video-link RF activity. Passive RF monitoring and RemoteID detection, designed for fixed-site, portable and multi-node deployment configurations.
Hardware Specifications
RF Detection Coverage
- Supported drone frequency bands: All commercial drones and most FPV drone bands
- Primary applications: Detection and direction finding of drone command, control, telemetry and video-link RF activity
- Detection method: Passive RF monitoring and RemoteID detection
- Designed for: Fixed-site, portable and multi-node deployment configurations
Wideband RF Receiver
- Receiver type: Dual-channel software-defined radio receiver
- Receiver architecture: Direct-conversion wideband RF architecture
- Number of receive channels: 2
- Channel synchronization: Coherent dual-channel reception
- Hardware tuning range: 70 MHz to 6 GHz
- Maximum hardware instantaneous bandwidth:
- Up to 56 MHz in single-channel operation
- Up to 30.72 MHz per system in dual-channel operation
- Analog receive bandwidth: Software-adjustable from approximately 200 kHz to 56 MHz
- Analog-to-digital conversion: 12-bit
- Maximum converter sample rate: 61.44 MS/s
- Receiver gain: Software-adjustable
- Available receiver gain range: Up to approximately 76 dB
- RF port impedance: 50 ohms
- Maximum recommended RF input level: −15 dBm
- Host interface: SuperSpeed USB 3.0
- Signal processing: Programmable FPGA-assisted digital signal processing
RF Direction-Finding Antenna Array
- Array configuration: Six-element circular antenna array
- Number of antenna elements: 6
- Frequency support: 450 MHz to 6 GHz
- Direction-finding method: Intelligent RF power sampling with vector-based angle-of-arrival processing
RF Switching System
- Switch type: High-speed solid-state RF antenna switch
- Number of switched antenna inputs: 6
- Switch controller: Dedicated embedded high-performance microcontroller (intelligent)
- Switching operation: Automatic and continuous during RF direction finding
Wi-Fi Remote ID Receiver
- Receiver type: Dedicated USB Wi-Fi monitoring adapter
- Operating modes: Passive monitor mode
- Supported bands: Configuration-dependent 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi reception
- Primary function: Capture supported Wi-Fi Remote ID broadcasts
- Supported broadcast types may include:
- Wi-Fi beacon-based Remote ID
- Wi-Fi Neighbor Awareness Networking broadcasts
- Compatible manufacturer-specific identification broadcasts
- Operation: Independent from the main wideband direction-finding receiver
Bluetooth Remote ID Receiver
- Receiver type: Dedicated Bluetooth Low Energy receiver
- Primary function: Detection and decoding of compatible Bluetooth Remote ID broadcasts
- Supported technology: Bluetooth Low Energy
- Operation: Continuous passive scanning
- Compatibility: Dependent on the Remote ID broadcast format and regional implementation
Positioning Receiver
- Receiver type: Fast acquisition GNSS positioning receiver
System Connectivity
- High-speed receiver connection: USB 3.2 over Ethernet
- Cabling: Armored Cat6 UTP Ethernet cable
Power System
Marcus T. –
Honestly wasn’t expecting much when we unboxed this, but it was up and running in about a minute — no exaggeration. We handle security for a few outdoor events and the dashboard makes it dead simple to see what’s flying around. Caught a drone the very first weekend that we’d never have spotted otherwise. Not cheap, but it’s already paid for itself in peace of mind.
Dana R. –
Picked one up for our facility after we kept getting random drones over the lot. Setup really was plug-and-play, didn’t have to call anyone. The fact that it runs fully offline was a big deal for us since our site can’t be on the internet. Range surprised me too — it was picking stuff up way further out than I figured it would.
Kevin S. –
Solid system overall. Detection works great and the alerts hit my phone fast. Only knocking off a star because I wish it came with a couple more mounting options in the box — ended up rigging my own bracket. Support was quick to answer when I emailed though. Would buy again.