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- Page 1 DroneScout - User Manual November 2021 - version 1.1 1/26 DroneScout User Manual - version 1.1 November 2021 - © BlueMark Innovations BV 2021...
- Page 2 The latest version of this manual is located here: https://download.bluemark.io/dronescout_user_manual.pdf Intended audience: system integrators, security intelligence firms, professional users with an IT background Disclaimer: we are not responsible or liable for errors or incomplete information in this document. Version history version date description...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents 1 Introduction ....................................4 1.1 What is it? ..................................4 1.2 Drone detection .................................4 2 Product ......................................5 3 Sensor ......................................6 3.1 Installation ..................................6 3.2 Configuration ................................9 4 Portal ......................................10 4.1 Basic concepts ................................10 4.2 Alarms ..................................11 4.3 Projects..................................12 4.4 Zones ....................................13 4.5 Sensors.................................. -
Page 4: Introduction
1.2 Drone detection There is a large variety of drones: air, water, ground. DroneScout focuses on drones that have a wireless video link between drone and pilot/remote controller. Those are the ones that affect your privacy most and also transmit continuously wireless video signals (and control signals). -
Page 5: Product
RODUCT DroneScout is a product to detect consumer drones near your house or other objects of interest by detecting the wireless video signal between drone and remote controller/pilot. The product consists of sensors that are installed in the area of interest and a portal for generating alarms and managing sensors. -
Page 6: Sensor
ENSOR The standard hardware is the DS100 sensor. The internal building blocks are a dual-band antenna, a so-called SDR (software-defined radio) and an embedded processing platform to analyze/process the RF signals and generate alarms. The size of the sensor is 27.2 x 27.6 x 9.6 cm, weight around 1.4 kg (with mast mount 1.9 kg) and the power consumption is less than 5 W. - Page 7 Detection area Figure 3 - use multiple sensor to cover the detection area in case the detection area is not square, or circle shape. Construction materials - Construction materials (wood, concrete) attenuate wireless signals. This means that the detection area is reduced, if a sensor is installed behind or in such an object. This is especially true for the 5.8 GHz band.
- Page 8 Angle - The sensor has internally an omnidirectional antenna. Install the sensor with zero angle (vertical plane). This means that the sensor should looks straight ahead. Not down or up under an angle. Power - The sensor needs power and is powered via Power over Ethernet (PoE), 802.11af. Connect the Ethernet port of the sensor to an PoE capable switch/router to have both power and connectivity.
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Page 9: Configuration
Typically, there is no need to open ports on your router. Technically, It will use two ports to the server portal.dronescout.co from inside to the internet : 10094 for connecting to the MQTT broker and 10090 for remote maintenance (reverse SSH). In addition, it contacts regularly NTP servers on the internet to have the correct time. -
Page 10: Portal
ORTAL The portal is a central portal used by all DroneScout customers. Each customer will receive unique login credentials to manage their own sensors. Typically, the portal is already set up correctly with a project, zone and sensors that have been shipped to you. In that case, you only need to change a few details like project/zone names. -
Page 11: Alarms
Figure 7 - screenshot of the main portal page. The main menu contains: Alarms - an interactive tool to look up historic alarms. Projects - configure projects Zones - configure zones Sensors - configure sensors Users - manage your user account 4.2 Alarms The Search alarms menu item is an interactive tool to display historic drone alarms. -
Page 12: Projects
Figure 8 - Search alarms screen 4.3 Projects If you deploy sensors to a new location, you start configure this location in the portal by adding a new project first.(Typically, a project has already been set up for new customer.) Go to the menu item Projects and click on the New projec t button. -
Page 13: Zones
Figure 9 - Add a new project screenshot. 4.4 Zones After creating a new project, you need to add a new zone. Click on Add zone button after creating a new project or go to the Zones menu and press this button. You need to enter: project - select the created project to assign it to this project ... - Page 14 Figure 10 - Add a new zone screenshot. 14/26 Drone Scout User Manual - version 1.1 November 2021 - © BlueMark Innovations BV 2021...
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Page 15: Sensors
4.5 Sensors After configuring the zones attach sensors to it. The sensors section can be seen as a switch board; connect each sensor to the appropriate zone. A sensor can only connected to only one zone, but a zone can contain multiple sensors. Click on Add sensor button after creating a new zone or go to the Sensors menu and press this button. - Page 16 Manage sensor The current status of a sensor can be looked up by going to the manage action. Go to the Sensors page and click on the Manage button on the right of the page. The Last seen row shows when the sensor is seen last.
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Page 17: Users
4.6 Users Click on the Users menu and click on the Edit button to manage your user settings. On this page you can change username, password, full name and email address. The bottom part of the page allows you to set the MQTT broker configuration. The portal will publish alarm messages to the configured MQTT broker. - Page 18 Figure 13 - Edit user screenshot. 18/26 Drone Scout User Manual - version 1.1 November 2021 - © BlueMark Innovations BV 2021...
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Page 19: Detection Range
4.7 Detection range An important setting is configuring the detection range of the sensor. The range for the DS100 sensor is up to 1 km for drones in the 2.4 GHz band. In the EU, the 5.8 GHz band has a maximum distance up to 500 meter, due to a much lower drone transmit power in this band. -
Page 20: Email Settings
Detected drones The third and last method is to use the Search alarms section. It is an interactive method that can be used stand alone or in combination with the other techniques. Configure all zones to a threshold of -110 dBm. Wait a few weeks and go to the Search alarms section. Use the detected signal levels to derive the optimal threshold. -
Page 21: Reports
EPORTS There are two report types: daily briefing by email realtime alarms via MQTT 5.1 Daily briefings An example daily briefing is shown below. It contains several blocks Drones that are detected in the guard time window, default the last 24 hours starting with ... -
Page 22: Realtime Alarms
5.2 Realtime alarms There are multiple realtime alarms (JSON format): Sensor status - if the status of the sensor changes (online, offline), a realtime alarm is triggered. Realtime alarm - every 10 seconds, the system will generate an alarm for currently detected ... - Page 23 sensor - this section contains relevant sensor information like serial number, firmware version, model. gps - GPS data, fetched from GPS location set in the attached zone. zone - relevant information of the attached zone: name and sensor model. ...
- Page 24 This message contains several sections: type - “alarm” for this type of alarm sensor - this section contains relevant sensor information like serial number, firmware version, model. gps - GPS data, fetched from GPS location set in the attached zone. ...
- Page 25 This message contains several sections: type - “alarm summary” for this type of alarm sensor - this section contains relevant sensor information like serial number, firmware version, model. gps - GPS data, fetched from GPS location set in the attached zone. ...
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Page 26: More Information
If you need more information, please contact us at info@bluemark.io or by phone: +31 53 711 2104. All contact information can be found at the DroneScout contact page: https://dronescout.co/contact/ 26/26 Drone Scout User Manual - version 1.1 November 2021 - © BlueMark Innovations BV 2021...
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