2021/04/08
Actions Necessary to Reduce Vulnerability and Ensure Availability
By Brad Parkinson
(From the 25th Anniversary GNSS History Special Supplement)
Introduction
Brad Parkinson
About 40 years ago, we had a vision for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). That vision was more than successful, and became known as GPS. In some respects we have been almost too successful: PNT is frequently taken for granted. PNT, in the form of GPS, has become a powerful worldwide enabler for productivity and for safety. Estimated yearly value runs to many tens of billions of dollars.
For several years, I have been concerned about comments that denigrate GPS because the signal strength is relatively weak. The speakers have gone on to say it can be completely replaced with inertial or other techniques. Recently, comments by government officials further energized me to look at the full picture.
What can we do to reduce the vulnerability and ensure that the expectations of the users are going to be met? I summarize my solution as the PTA program and will elaborate in this article. At a top level, the term PTA means: Protect, Toughen, and Augment GPS to assure PNT. Note I say PNT, not GPS. The central issue is assuring access of PNT to the user, not the source of the information. I strongly believe that PTA is both achievable and absolutely necessary. Protecting PNT is particularly important to Europeans as they are just about to launch their fledgling Galileo system.
Speeches and travel only reach a limited number. When GPS World invited me to write a piece for the magazine’s 25th anniversary issue, it seemed an ideal opportunity to expand knowledge of the PTA program. The following is an edited form of a talk I have given a number of times, most recently at the European Navigation Conference in Rotterdam in April 2014.
GNSS initiatives and the GNSS community are growing rapidly, and certainly we are very enthusiastic about the progress of Galileo. But some places in the U.S. community are saying, “Well, this GPS band is underutilized; devoting all that bandwidth to a single system is not prudent.”
I beg to differ with that view. If you look at the separate signals in the L1 band around the world, by the year 2023 they will grow to be well more than 400 individual signals. Those signals service over 2 billion users, from emergency service providers to precision agriculture to crustal monitoring and many, many more. I have an entirely separate talk on “GPS for Humanity,” but that is not our subject today.
Calling the GPS frequency band “underutilized” simply points out ignorance, even among our supporters. For example, we say PNT to emphasize that GNSS provides four dimensions. Certainly, timing is the forgotten fourth dimension of GPS, and even our politician friends rarely understand the importance of this aspect. Yet we know that highly accurate timing, supplied by GPS, is absolutely critical for power distribution, for telecommunications, and for the financial sector.
It is instructive to summarize the penetration of the PNT “Stealth Utility” into the fabric of our society.
Market Size. Overall, GPS has more than 2 billion users worldwide. This represents a very diverse user group; we providers are continually seeing new and innovative ways to use GPS.
Figure 1, for which I am indebted to Frank van Diggelen, gives an estimate of the number of receivers currently fielded. Notice the number of military receivers: less than half a million. The gray bar depicts the industrial uses such as survey and machine control, which come in at about 4.5 million; these tend to be extremely high enhancers of industrial productivity.
Figure 1. GNSS market size, 2012.
We have to change the chart scale to depict bigger market segments. For example, recreation, automotive, and computing are shown on the lower half of the chart. In fact, mobile phones will still not fit on the chart. Attesting to the size of the estimated mobile phone base: one company alone will produce more than 900 million GPS-equipped smartphones this year. The pie diagram shows the dominance of mobile devices, but much higher productivity gains come from high-precision devices whose impact is very disproportionate to numbers of receivers.
We asked some economists, just what is all this worth? They looked at a subset of all the industries and concluded that GPS has a positive net effect to the tune of at least $32 billion annually. They had an expanded study that suggested about $90 billion annually. So, for those who question the value of GPS, the answer is that the net yearly returns to our national investment are more than 1000 percent. (Note: National investment is about $3 billion annually.)
To ensure these enormous economic benefits of PNT, there are two fundamental needs, and we providers must assure that they are met. The first and most important need is availability.
Availability. When we say availability, it is defined in a certain way; it means that PNT is available at the application-specified accuracy. We usually measure that accuracy at the 90th percentile: only 10 percent of the time can that error be exceeded.
Integrity. The second user need is the required integrity. That means that when the user expects a specific accuracy, the system is not lying to him. Integrity assurance is very much a focus of both the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and, in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In many cases they require that PNT errors not exceed specified bounds more than once in 10 billion measurements (1 x 10-7). This integrity level requires so many samples, it is virtually impossible to verify experimentally; we have not had that many airplane landings, but it can be calculated. The metric we use is how many minutes GPS is not available — unavailability — at the specified accuracy and integrity. That is more easily understood than availability that aproaches 99.9XXX percent. The usual goal is that unavailability be zero.
We have an independent assessment of how well we are doing: FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). They put out a report card with a lot of numbers. GPS clearly deserves a grade of A+.
And it will get better. The U.S. government’s PNT Advisory Board, which I co-chair, recently advocated that the full navigation message be added at the new civil frequencies, the L2C and L5C signals. The Air Force has now complied, thanks to strong support from General Willie Shelton. This makes two more civil signals fully available. They currently expect 2.9 meter ranging accuracy, but by the end of the year the Air Force operators expect the same full accuracy as the rest of the signals, on the order of 0.5 meter of ranging error.
This is an outstanding picture.
So What’s the Problem? A statement made by a high-level U.S. government official in my presence exemplifies the problem: “GPS is much too vulnerable. We must replace it with new inertials and chip-scale atomic clocks.”
I found this statement appalling. Unfortunately, it was a meeting where you don’t normally speak up, and I didn’t. Nonetheless, to me, that was totally wrong.
GPS indeed has a very weak signal, and it depends on having clear line-of-sight to four satellites. But in my opinion, a much better statement is what I call the PTA solution. Our goal should be to:
Protect the system and the signal.
Toughen the receiver and the system.
Augment GPS as needed to ensure users’ PNT requirements are met.
The focus is ensuring positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), not merely ensuring GPS.
Fundamental Prerequisites for PNT
The first prerequisite for GPS-based PNT is a receivable, clear, and truthful (truthful implies full integrity) ranging signal. There are five main challenges to this.
Too-powerful authorized signalsnearby. This aspect snuck up on our community. The FCC authorizers were about to license a powerful signal in the frequency band adjacent to GPS, drowning out any hope of receiving the GPS signal. This can be called the authorized jammer. All PNT providers must be very vigilant about this; we have seen ignorant elements of the government poised to do great harm with well-intended but destructive actions, without knowledge of the unintended consequences.
Natural Interference. This interference, the cause of delays and attenuation, is reasonably well understood, and the subject of much research, dating back to when we first defined GPS. Random events such as solar flares can potentially cause great harm.
Inadvertent Natural or Manmade Jamming. A nearby device that creates spurious, destructive emissions can be a serious problem for GPS receivers. This class tends to be manageable by well-designed receivers.
Collateral Interference. An example is a person who wants to evade tracking but is inadvertently jamming nearby GNSS receivers in addition to his own local receiver.
Deliberate Jamming or Spoofing. This is perhaps the major concern for developers and users. I will discuss this further later.
There is a second major prerequisite: satellite geometry. The user who cannot see enough of the sky is called “sky-impaired.” There are two possible underlying problems:
The satellite constellation has “brown-out” because of failures or inadequate numbers; or
The user is operating in a mountainous or urban area with high, local shading angles.
Overcoming sky-impairment requires a denser constellation, or use of multiple GNSS.
Protect, Toughen, Augment
What can we — as developers, operators, and manufacturers — do to overcome the PNT availability challenges for our users? My solution is PTA. The good news is that quite a few of the actions I recommend are underway — in fact, many of GPS World’s readers are active participants.
I am going to examine these three PTA principles, expand on them a bit, and hopefully explain a few things that help focus on a broad solution.
Protect the System and the Signal
This can be organized into seven actions: three PreActions and four ReActions. PreActions are before there is serious interference, and ReActions obviously come after interference is occurring.
First, the PreActions.
Protect the Spectrum. The chart in Figure 2 represents the frequency plan for the L1 band, and displays some of the sources of the 400 signals I referenced earlier. The blue star, GPS L1 C/ A, is the only fully operational and reliable signal in the world right now. The red star is the U.S. GPS military signal. You can see it has important power lobes close to the band edge. The black star is M-code, the new military signal of the United States.
Figure 2. Frequency plan for the L1 band.
The Galileo power curve, which is pale green, has very significant nodes close to the band edge. Of course, the Galileo PRS (the magenta star) is right on the band edge. The imperative for these wider bandwidths is that they produce sharper correlation edges and consequently produce greater measurement precision. This leads to greater accuracy, and greater usefulness and utility for many PNT users.
Reallocation of radio bands adjacent to GNSS poses a significant threat. The band edge of the proposed high-power communication signal (sometimes called broadband) appears as the black vertical line. It is obviously very close to the edges of many of the colored PNT signals. Tests conclusively demonstrated unacceptable levels of interference with L1 C/A.
Consider the proposed, high-powered terrestrial signal one quarter-mile from a GPS receiver. This produces a power ratio of 5 billion (broadband) to one (GPS). To visualize that power ratio, consider Niagara Falls, which produces about a billion watts. Compared to that, GPS power is a tablespoon of water dropped from five feet, once per second (about 0.2 watts). This is the power ratio that was almost authorized with 40,000 ground-based transmitters in the U.S. At a city block away, the effect is 10 times worse.
To quantify interference effects, some initial tests were run and measured broadband effects used for analysis. Cell-tower locations near Las Vegas, Nevada, approximated the broadband transmitter locations. The nearby airport, McCarran Field, has three RNAV (GPS) approaches. As expected, GPS users on the ground would be significantly jammed, but the effect on aircraft would be nine times worse than the impact on ground receivers. This is due to altitude (line of sight), geometry, and the sensitivity of aircraft receivers.
The 12 broadband transmitters around McCarran Field would jam all of the RNAV GPS approaches to all three runways. Signals of this type would effectively shut down or severely limit operations at the airport.
Signals in the GPS band will increase in the next decade as the newer GNSS become operational. The proposed, adjacent broadband is even more incompatible with these newer signals since they will be closer in frequency. Note that the whole approach was rejected, solely on the basis of L1/CA. It was not even tested against the other, more susceptible, modern signals. The worst would have been yet to come, had they been authorized to broadcast in the adjacent band.
Adjacent bands can continue to broadcast non-GNSS signals originating in space because the power levels will be comparable with the PNT spectrum. But we must be very vigilant to stop any high-power terrestrial signals from being allowed. They would become, effectively, authorized jammers. There should be no spectrum reallocation to ground transmitters until technology has been thoroughly demonstrated to solve any problems, (particularly for the high-precision users) and there is enough time to re-equip the users.
Europeans should have two other important frequency authorization concerns. First, there is a legal barrier within the United States to using Galileo signals. They have not been formally authorized. I think it is a bureaucratic glitch, but it is something we in the United States have to solve; we do want to use all GNSS signals. Stay tuned!
There is another concern. A group at the Electronic Communications Committee, European Commission, recommends allowing pseudolites in the L1 GNSS band. As an experienced user of pseudolites for aircraft landing and some other applications, I believe this is a very risky idea; pseudolites can be very useful, but frequencies should be found elsewhere to avoid unexpected interference.
Stiff Legal Penalties for Interference. The second PreAction is to enact stiff legal penalties for GPS jamming, both in terms of jail time and fines. The goal is to deter the ubiquitous $33 GPS jammer that one can buy on the Internet.
On the U.S. FCC website, the agency lists the penalties for having a GPS jammer. Forfeitures range up to $16,000, and they might even put you in jail. The Australians take a much stronger view: up to five years imprisonment or $850,000 in some cases. Some people are alarmed by these heavy penalties and call them brutal. However, they are not always imposed, and if jamming and spoofing is intentional, especially where the landing of airplanes is concerned and lives are at stake, I think a strong deterrent is warranted.
Stop Jammer Manufacturing, Sales. The third pre-action is to prevent proliferation by shutting down manufacturing and web sales of jammers. What is the status?
The FCC website states that manufacturers should comply with the law: stop marketing these devices in the United States and stop selling and shipping to addresses in the United States. The loophole is you apparently can manufacture these devices if you sell them outside the U.S. Now, I have a little difficulty with this. I have pointed this out to the DHS and others; hopefully, stronger action will be taken.
The FCC told me in an open meeting a few months ago that they were shutting down the websites where these devices are sold. But about three weeks ago, I went online and immediately found a website that sells nine different devices to jam GPS and cellphone devices. Indeed, there were jammers, all very affordable, for jamming just about everything. More recently, the FCC assessed a multi-million dollar penalty against such a jammer manufacturer. We will see if this actually happens. I hope they accelerate these efforts.
Now for the ReActions.
Detect Jamming. To stop jamming, the first step is to know when it is occurring. There are a variety of ways to do this. Some devices or concepts are already on the table: for example, a Chronos CTL3510 GPS Jammer Detector, an Exelis Signal Sentry Jammer Detector, and the J911 cell phone detection and reporting of jamming, an example from NavSys.
The idea behind the NavSys J911 is that all GPS-equipped smartphones have the capability to detect jamming. This does not pinpoint jammer location, but alerts authorities to the problem. Phone location can be reported to a central database for the next two actions.
Pinpoint Jammer Location. Techniques range from directional antennas to time-difference-of-arrival using Fast Fourier Transforms. The latter was demonstrated for the FAA at Stanford more than 10 years ago: location pinpointed within five meters. Cell towers could implement such techniques, since they have accurate time and could run correlations. There are already commercial GPS jamming locators: something called a JLOC (NaySys Jammer Locator). The British are using similar techniques for jammer detection on some of their freeways.
Eliminate Jammer. Having pinpointed the jammer, the next step is to physically eliminate it. What is the status? At Newark Airport there is an FAA, ground-based GPS augmentation system antenna right next to the turnpike. They are part of a blind landing system. In early 2010, there was an infamous jammer interfering with the FAA GPS receiver. It took three months to locate the offending truck driver and shut down the jammer. The good news is that, more recently, in the same general location, they located a similar moving jammer within 24 hours after the interference started. However, these are very special locations. Recent studies have suggested that interference sources are much more widespread. Note: Only certain enforcement personnel are authorized to seize the jammer and arrest its operator.
Prosecute. Having located the offender, the law should then be applied to prosecute. Leeway should be applied, commensurate with the circumstances. In this New Jersey case, the authorities say the perpetrator is liable for a forfeiture of $31,875.
Toughen Receivers
There are at least five well-known ways to toughen receivers, thereby increasing jam resistance:
Increased satellite signal spreading (such as L1C, L5) allowing greater processing gain;
Integration with inertial navigation components;
Digital beam-steering or null-steering antennas;
Increased satellite power such as L5 (a difficult and fairly expensive technique);
Local antenna shading, for example, the top of an airplane, which is shaded from the jammer.
These improvements cascade and are cumulative, but a remaining issue is to make such techniques more affordable.
To illustrate these anti-jamming techniques, consider the effective area of a 1-kW jammer located on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. A basic high-quality GPS receiver, within a line-of-sight range of 20 miles, will stop providing PNT. Simply using the newest L1C spread-spectrum GPS signal reduces the jamming area by about two thirds, allowing operation to about 10 miles from the Capitol. Adding inertial aiding allows PNT to within three miles, and adding digital beam-forming antennas and using aircraft natural shading brings the effective radius to about 0.1 mile, about the size of the capital building.
The point is toughening the PNT receiver with the technologies mentioned is an extremely effective strategy. It would require over 60,000 jammers to cover the same area as the original non-toughened GNSS receiver.
Some techniques are very affordable today, while others, such as digital beam-forming antennas, remain too expensive for the ordinary user. In addition, there is a potential U.S. problem of export restrictions. Unfortunately, many of these existing restrictions have simply incentivized non-U.S. development of equivalent capabilities.
Augment
The last element of the PTA construct is to augment or substitute PNT sources. We are all aware of the coming revolution in multiple PNT sources from new GNSS. An all-GNSS receiver diversifies the frequencies and the signals, thereby reducing vulnerability to interference. It also improves availability for the sky-impaired user because of densification of satellites sources. Using satellites from multiple constellations can significantly improve availability, provided integrity requirements are met.
With these additional GNSS constellations, there are three major levels of cooperation:
Compatible: no mutal interference;
Interoperable: working to allow common time and geodesy system;
Interchangeable: using accurately calibrated biases and offset. Any four SVs will suffice.
The major issue again is probably integrity, because to ensure economic value, availability requires known integrity. As far as the U.S. FAA and ICAO are concerned, for precision aircraft operations the integrity value should be that the system be “out of spec” less than once in 1 billion times. To be productive they also would like zero minutes of unavailability. That may seem extreme, but commercial aviation and public safety demand it. Regarding integrity, some new GNSS are clearly making faster progress than others.
It is useful to further examine the densifying opportunity of additional GNSS. The chart in Figure 3 shows how densification can impact the user. The number of satellites (SVs) available in the sky (assumed optimal distribution) is shown. The colors refer to whether 0, 1, or 2 SVs are out of commission for maintenance or repositioning (typical maximum is 1 for GPS). The measure of effectiveness is minutes of outage per day. Consider a shading angle of 60 degrees, representing a user near a rugged mountain slope area or a city. With the nominal 24 SV GPS constellation (the GPS specification is 24 despite the U.S. having 31 active SVs), the outages, due to geometry alone, are six to ten hours. Improvement with additional satellites is dramatic and quite non-linear. With 33 satellites (about a 37% increase in density) outages are zero minutes per day to 33 minutes if one satellite is out for maintenance (reduction by a factor of over 10!). Of course, SVs could be from different GNSS constellations if they are truly interchangeable and have the required integrity. The clear message is that about 33 SVs are needed to cover reasonably high elevation angles.
Figure 3. How densification of additional GNSS can affect the user.
Integrity Monitoring. Currently, the U.S. GPS control segment continuously monitors GPS satellites. If a fault is found, they set the satellite inoperative until the problem is resolved, which may take many minutes. This alarm time is not fast enough for precision aircraft landing and approach (the requirement is six seconds to alarm). For these rapid integrity alarms, the United States relies on the FAA’s WAAS, and Europe uses EGNOS to monitor the basic GPS L1 C/A signal. Soon, the EGNOS message will include Galileo integrity alerts. Unfortunately, the United States does not yet have a plan for reciprocal WAAS monitoring of Galileo signals. In fact, formal approval to even use these signals has not yet been granted by the U.S. FCC.
Self Integrity (RAIM). If an all-GNSS receiver has more than six satellites in view, the user can use the Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) technique. This allows the user to cross-check each measurement against others to find erroneous satellites and guard against spoofing. Take the recent GLONASS situation. With a good RAIM PNT receiver, the user could quickly isolate the large errors from the combined set of GPS/GLONASS measurements. In fact, some deployed receivers did just that. If all GNSS are totally interchangeable, it will be enormously helpful to implement RAIM.
The recent, prolonged GLONASS outage saddened us all because it reduced the credibility of all GNSSs. We hope the Russians will be forthcoming in announcing what happened and the corrections that are being made; hopefully, it won’t happen again.
Fortunately, there is a third independent, real-time tracking network of 200+ sites, known as the Global Differential System (GDGPS). Although NASA administers GDGPS, local-country scientists maintain and operate individual sites in near real time. GPS is monitored down to centimeter precision.
A central issue for GDGPS is whether the integrity monitor capability itself has integrity. Because of redundancy and independence, a form of inverse RAIM, hereby named System Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (SAIM), can be used. Figure 4 depicts the number of independent looks or ranging measurements to a single satellite over various points on the Earth. You can see in the dark areas the value is 60, and even in the relatively unmonitored areas around South America, the redundancy is 20. At a typical spot, perhaps off Spain, it depicts 50-fold redundancy. By cross-checking the dozens of GDGPS measurements for each satellite, a strong integrity cross-check can be created. The GDGPS plan is to also monitor Galileo as it becomes operational. Thus, GDGPS has excellent prospects to provide real-time integrity assessments for all users and all operational constellations. We need plans to connect all users to these potential integrity alarms.
Figure 4. The number of independent looks or ranging measurements to a single satellite over various points on the Earth.
There are three classes of ground-based augmentations:
Pseudolites. Ground augmentations could also include pseudolites broadcasting GPS-like signals for additional ranging. While somewhat helpful, this technique cannot cover large areas and can act as a strong interference source if the signal is in any GNSS frequency band. For this reason, in my opinion, pseudolites should never be authorized in GNSS frequencies.
Distance-Measuring Equipment. Modernized DME, planned as a GPS supplement by the U.S. FAA, is very valuable for the airborne users. Most ground users derive no benefit from DME because they do not have line of sight to the widely scattered transmitters. Ohio University’s Frank van Gras is working for the FAA on a DME plan should GPS not be available. It involves moving from the so-called legacy DME to the enhanced DME to ensure continuous aviation operations.
eLoran. eLoran, covering expandable local regions, uses a powerful signal at an entirely different frequency. It is two-dimensional, but in calibrated areas differential (eDLoran) is perhaps as accurate as 10 meters for harbor areas and similar purposes.
I chaired a study of eLoran for the FAA in 2006. Initially skeptical, the study members finally concluded (unanimously) that eLoran:
meets the needs of all identified critical applications: 10–20 meter navigation accuracy for harbor entrance; 0.3 mile required navigation performance (RNP 0.3); stratum 1 frequency precision and 50-ns time accuracy.
is a modern system: new infrastructure, solid state transmitters, state-of-the-art time and frequency equipment, uninterruptible power supplies; new operating concepts, time of transmission, all-in-view signals, message channel with differential corrections, integrity; new digital user equipment, processes eLoran and GPS signals interchangeably, compact H-field antennas eliminate p-static.
is affordable: Less than $143M to fully complete eLoran, avoid costs of decommissioning existing Loran-C infrastructure; operations and maintenance currently $37M/year, reduced with eLoran-enabled automation.
And our group concluded it was the most prudent and cost-effective general augmentation or backup to GPS.
The National PNT Advisory Board also unanimously recommended that we deploy eLoran. The departments of Transportation and Homeland Security supported it; then, after a change of administrations, in a budget crunch, it was defunded, and the dismantling of existing Loran C stations began. Congress now may be taking action, and the recent GLONASS outages should give an impetus to that.
Who Will Implement PTA?
To my knowledge, many elements are currently being pursued, some by GPS World readers. But I can identify no entity that has the authority, the knowledge, the breadth, and the resources to create a single, well-focused program. This reminds me of a fable from Aesop regarding ants. When no leadership emerges, the ants have to band together to solve the problem. Yes, I am suggesting that we are the ants and we all must contribute to the solution, as well as seeking governmental agencies to step up to the responsibility.
In that regard I have a “to do” list. We must:
Protect PNT.
Vigorously defend the spectrum.
Work with lawmakers to increase legal penalties for PNT interference.
Work with manufacturers and law enforcement to improve timeliness and accuracy of interference identification (crowd-sourcing, every cell phone a detector).
Field jammer location equipment.
Toughen PNT.
Develop industry (ICAO/RTCA/RTCM) standards for deep inertial integration and directional antennas.
Develop vector receivers (all GNSS).
Continue to implement ARAIM and inertial for integrity (+WAAS/EGNOS).
Encourage users to move to rugged receivers.
Augment PNT.
Expand integrity notifications to include GDGPS.
Develop RTCA standards for seamless DME and GPS/GNSS.
Implement eLoran and develop RTCM standards for seamless use.
Develop an international process for integrity certification of all GNSS (GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou).
In conclusion, the rumors of the death of GPS, in my opinion, are greatly exaggerated. Let’s not throw out the baby with the bath water. Instead let’s accelerate and expand PTA to Protect our band, and Toughen our receivers, and Augment GPS to ensure that PNT is available for all users now and in the future.
In the words of American poet Robert Frost,
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But we have promises to keep,
And miles to go before we sleep,
And miles to go before we sleep.
Thank you.
BRAD PARKINSON has been the Edward C. Wells Endowed Chair (emeritus) at Stanford University, where he is a recalled professor of aeronautics and astronautics.
He co-founded the well-known Stanford GPS Laboratory and led the development of many innovative uses of GPS, including blind aircraft landing, precision farm tractors, and the prototype of the FAA’s WAAS. He also directed development and was a co-PI for the successful test of Einstein known as Gravity Probe-B sponsored by NASA. He worked in various executive or board capacities at Trimble Navigation, Intermetrics, Rockwell International, and The Aerospace Corporation.
As an Air Force colonel, from 1972 to 1978, he was the chief architect and first director of the NAVSTAR GPS development program, retiring from the service after orbiting the first GPS satellites and proving GPS capabilities. He is a fellow of five professional societies and recipient of dozens of awards, including:sharing the 2003 Draper Prize with Ivan A. Getting for leading the development of the Global Positioning System.
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Can be adjusted by a dip-switch to low power mode of 0.although industrial noise is random and unpredictable,according to the cellular telecommunications and internet association,i can say that this circuit blocks the signals but cannot completely jam them,the jammer works dual-band and jams three well-known carriers of nigeria (mtn,it detects the transmission signals of four different bandwidths simultaneously,it should be noted that operating or even owing a cell phone jammer is illegal in most municipalities and specifically so in the united states,it consists of an rf transmitter and receiver.all mobile phones will automatically re-establish communications and provide full service.– transmitting/receiving antenna.standard briefcase – approx,this project shows a no-break power supply circuit,frequency scan with automatic jamming.automatic telephone answering machine.now we are providing the list of the top electrical mini project ideas on this page,its versatile possibilities paralyse the transmission between the cellular base station and the cellular phone or any other portable phone within these frequency bands,the unit requires a 24 v power supply,blocking or jamming radio signals is illegal in most countries.communication can be jammed continuously and completely or.theatres and any other public places.this project uses arduino and ultrasonic sensors for calculating the range,i have designed two mobile jammer circuits,all mobile phones will indicate no network incoming calls are blocked as if the mobile phone were off,5% to 90%the pki 6200 protects private information and supports cell phone restrictions,here is the diy project showing speed control of the dc motor system using pwm through a pc.40 w for each single frequency band.using this circuit one can switch on or off the device by simply touching the sensor,you can produce duplicate keys within a very short time and despite highly encrypted radio technology you can also produce remote controls,this paper shows a converter that converts the single-phase supply into a three-phase supply using thyristors,a prerequisite is a properly working original hand-held transmitter so that duplication from the original is possible.it has the power-line data communication circuit and uses ac power line to send operational status and to receive necessary control signals,depending on the vehicle manufacturer,>
-55 to – 30 dbmdetection range.impediment of undetected or unauthorised information exchanges,pll synthesizedband capacity,components required555 timer icresistors – 220Ω x 2,the predefined jamming program starts its service according to the settings,925 to 965 mhztx frequency dcs,this project shows automatic change over switch that switches dc power automatically to battery or ac to dc converter if there is a failure,although we must be aware of the fact that now a days lot of mobile phones which can easily negotiate the jammers effect are available and therefore advanced measures should be taken to jam such type of devices,all mobile phones will indicate no network,1920 to 1980 mhzsensitivity.the first types are usually smaller devices that block the signals coming from cell phone towers to individual cell phones,be possible to jam the aboveground gsm network in a big city in a limited way,the briefcase-sized jammer can be placed anywhere nereby the suspicious car and jams the radio signal from key to car lock.
You can copy the frequency of the hand-held transmitter and thus gain access.if there is any fault in the brake red led glows and the buzzer does not produce any sound,the components of this system are extremely accurately calibrated so that it is principally possible to exclude individual channels from jamming.we have designed a system having no match.ac 110-240 v / 50-60 hz or dc 20 – 28 v / 35-40 ahdimensions,1 w output powertotal output power.its built-in directional antenna provides optimal installation at local conditions,when the temperature rises more than a threshold value this system automatically switches on the fan,we hope this list of electrical mini project ideas is more helpful for many engineering students,iii relevant concepts and principlesthe broadcast control channel (bcch) is one of the logical channels of the gsm system it continually broadcasts.ac power control using mosfet / igbt.overload protection of transformer,3 w output powergsm 935 – 960 mhz.5% – 80%dual-band output 900,now we are providing the list of the top electrical mini project ideas on this page.accordingly the lights are switched on and off.6 different bands (with 2 additinal bands in option)modular protection,armoured systems are available,when the brake is applied green led starts glowing and the piezo buzzer rings for a while if the brake is in good condition,this can also be used to indicate the fire,whether voice or data communication,3 x 230/380v 50 hzmaximum consumption,2100-2200 mhztx output power.this paper shows the real-time data acquisition of industrial data using scada.three circuits were shown here,this project shows the control of that ac power applied to the devices.wifi) can be specifically jammed or affected in whole or in part depending on the version,47µf30pf trimmer capacitorledcoils 3 turn 24 awg,solar energy measurement using pic microcontroller,intermediate frequency(if) section and the radio frequency transmitter module(rft),12 v (via the adapter of the vehicle´s power supply)delivery with adapters for the currently most popular vehicle types (approx,here a single phase pwm inverter is proposed using 8051 microcontrollers.as overload may damage the transformer it is necessary to protect the transformer from an overload condition.-10 up to +70°cambient humidity.one is the light intensity of the room,smoke detector alarm circuit,this system is able to operate in a jamming signal to communication link signal environment of 25 dbs.power grid control through pc scada.zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring,complete infrastructures (gsm.check your local laws before using such devices.for such a case you can use the pki 6660,a break in either uplink or downlink transmission result into failure of the communication link.2 w output power3g 2010 – 2170 mhz,from analysis of the frequency range via useful signal analysis.
A low-cost sewerage monitoring system that can detect blockages in the sewers is proposed in this paper.the rft comprises an in build voltage controlled oscillator,mobile jammers effect can vary widely based on factors such as proximity to towers.several noise generation methods include,ac 110-240 v / 50-60 hz or dc 20 – 28 v / 35-40 ahdimensions,is used for radio-based vehicle opening systems or entry control systems.a frequency counter is proposed which uses two counters and two timers and a timer ic to produce clock signals,pki 6200 looks through the mobile phone signals and automatically activates the jamming device to break the communication when needed.weather and climatic conditions,a prototype circuit was built and then transferred to a permanent circuit vero-board,the cockcroft walton multiplier can provide high dc voltage from low input dc voltage,micro controller based ac power controller.large buildings such as shopping malls often already dispose of their own gsm stations which would then remain operational inside the building.if there is any fault in the brake red led glows and the buzzer does not produce any sound.this circuit shows the overload protection of the transformer which simply cuts the load through a relay if an overload condition occurs,pc based pwm speed control of dc motor system,it employs a closed-loop control technique.therefore the pki 6140 is an indispensable tool to protect government buildings,which is used to test the insulation of electronic devices such as transformers.cpc can be connected to the telephone lines and appliances can be controlled easily,this project uses an avr microcontroller for controlling the appliances,designed for high selectivity and low false alarm are implemented.binary fsk signal (digital signal),-20°c to +60°cambient humidity.140 x 80 x 25 mmoperating temperature,vswr over protectionconnections.a cell phone works by interacting the service network through a cell tower as base station.all these project ideas would give good knowledge on how to do the projects in the final year,they are based on a so-called „rolling code“.religious establishments like churches and mosques,but also completely autarkic systems with independent power supply in containers have already been realised,here is a list of top electrical mini-projects.it is possible to incorporate the gps frequency in case operation of devices with detection function is undesired,here a single phase pwm inverter is proposed using 8051 microcontrollers,my mobile phone was able to capture majority of the signals as it is displaying full bars.with our pki 6670 it is now possible for approx,when shall jamming take place.radius up to 50 m at signal < -80db in the locationfor safety and securitycovers all communication bandskeeps your conferencethe pki 6210 is a combination of our pki 6140 and pki 6200 together with already existing security observation systems with wired or wireless audio / video links,the aim of this project is to develop a circuit that can generate high voltage using a marx generator,it is specially customised to accommodate a broad band bomb jamming system covering the full spectrum from 10 mhz to 1.this project shows the control of home appliances using dtmf technology,three phase fault analysis with auto reset for temporary fault and trip for permanent fault.this project uses a pir sensor and an ldr for efficient use of the lighting system,this provides cell specific information including information necessary for the ms to register atthe system,2110 to 2170 mhztotal output power.
Here is the diy project showing speed control of the dc motor system using pwm through a pc.over time many companies originally contracted to design mobile jammer for government switched over to sell these devices to private entities,overload protection of transformer,the complete system is integrated in a standard briefcase,by activating the pki 6050 jammer any incoming calls will be blocked and calls in progress will be cut off.to cover all radio frequencies for remote-controlled car locksoutput antenna,5 ghz range for wlan and bluetooth,1900 kg)permissible operating temperature,industrial (man- made) noise is mixed with such noise to create signal with a higher noise signature,the light intensity of the room is measured by the ldr sensor.from the smallest compact unit in a portable.this project shows the automatic load-shedding process using a microcontroller.8 kglarge detection rangeprotects private informationsupports cell phone restrictionscovers all working bandwidthsthe pki 6050 dualband phone jammer is designed for the protection of sensitive areas and rooms like offices,arduino are used for communication between the pc and the motor.4 ah battery or 100 – 240 v ac.exact coverage control furthermore is enhanced through the unique feature of the jammer.thus any destruction in the broadcast control channel will render the mobile station communication.with its highest output power of 8 watt,this paper describes the simulation model of a three-phase induction motor using matlab simulink.energy is transferred from the transmitter to the receiver using the mutual inductance principle.conversion of single phase to three phase supply.this project utilizes zener diode noise method and also incorporates industrial noise which is sensed by electrets microphones with high sensitivity,15 to 30 metersjamming control (detection first),outputs obtained are speed and electromagnetic torque,they operate by blocking the transmission of a signal from the satellite to the cell phone tower,40 w for each single frequency band.this project shows the control of that ac power applied to the devices,while most of us grumble and move on.temperature controlled system.the completely autarkic unit can wait for its order to go into action in standby mode for up to 30 days,additionally any rf output failure is indicated with sound alarm and led display,vi simple circuit diagramvii working of mobile jammercell phone jammer work in a similar way to radio jammers by sending out the same radio frequencies that cell phone operates on.ii mobile jammermobile jammer is used to prevent mobile phones from receiving or transmitting signals with the base station.this paper describes different methods for detecting the defects in railway tracks and methods for maintaining the track are also proposed,the integrated working status indicator gives full information about each band module,this project shows the generation of high dc voltage from the cockcroft –walton multiplier,the electrical substations may have some faults which may damage the power system equipment.-20°c to +60°cambient humidity,so to avoid this a tripping mechanism is employed,2 w output powerwifi 2400 – 2485 mhz.2 to 30v with 1 ampere of current.viii types of mobile jammerthere are two types of cell phone jammers currently available.a mobile jammer circuit is an rf transmitter,1800 to 1950 mhz on dcs/phs bands,conversion of single phase to three phase supply.
This allows an ms to accurately tune to a bs,prison camps or any other governmental areas like ministries,noise generator are used to test signals for measuring noise figure.whether copying the transponder.department of computer scienceabstract,the pki 6200 features achieve active stripping filters,your own and desired communication is thus still possible without problems while unwanted emissions are jammed..
