A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign has been launched by an Oregon-based firm called Domestic Drone Countermeasure (DDC), to raise an amount of $8,500 for developing sensors that can detect drones. The company's effort to develop drone-detecting sensors is essentially rooted in the fact that increasing drone use has triggered privacy-related concerns among people.

The Verge has revealed in a recent report that DDC has been working on the technology for drone-detecting sensors for more than a year. The desktop sensor system being developed by DDC will be capable of identifying a drone when it is within a distance of 50 feet.

The sensor system from DDC will essentially underscore a Personal Drone Detection System which will consist of three transmitters that will triangulate the location of a drone. While the `Primary Command and Control Module' will work with a handset, tablet, or computer via WiFi, the other two transmitters will be `Detection Sensor Nodes.'

The system will alert users to the presence of a drone even if they are not at home. The alerts will be in the form of messages sent to a phone or tablet. In addition, the system will also have an alarm, which can be disabled by users.

Noting that the Kickstarter campaign will help fund the first production models of the DDC's drone-detection system - first with alpha testers, then beta testers -, DDC said on its page: "The Personal Drone Detection Systems are intended to counter small, personal drones with cameras and other sensors that are not being regulated."