Startup enabling drones to 'stop bullets' by detecting and disrupting active shooters raises $3 million
Its technology is designed to detect and disrupt active shooter situations. A young company making drones designed to detect a loaded firearm and, if needed, get in between a shooter and a potential victim, is getting its first round of financing.
The drones are off-the-shelf hardware equipped with LaSalla's method of detecting firearms and bullets using WiFi sensors and electromagnetic waves. The point is to detect a firearm on a person in an area a drone may be surveying, determine whether it's loaded, and then decide if there's a threat of the firearm being used. In such a scenario, the drone would intervene by putting itself in front of a shooter, to either distract the person or actually block bullets.
"They're very good at what they're designed to do," LaSalla said."The drone will stay in the way until it's shot down." It has multiple layers of armor, can summon other drones in a given area, and alert law enforcement if necessary. Pan American Drone's sales are expected to grow in five years to average 1,350 drones a year, generating about $100 million in net revenue and bringing the company's valuation to $1 billion, according to acting CFO Roger Simard. The startup intends to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange around that time. In addition to law enforcement, the company is looking at military and defense and private security as markets, sectors Wavv is connected to.
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