Applications for examining the RF environment are almost boundless, and include regulatory enforcement, corporate security, defense, counter espionage and cyber security. Military proving grounds, power plants, sports facilities, city centers, embassies, harbors, and national borders are just some of the places where spectrum monitoring has a role to play in ensuring security and effective operations.
The traditional approach to RF spectrum monitoring has been to use some type of mostly stationary bench-top spectrum analyzer and/or high-performance signal intelligence (SIGINT) system to capture signals for analysis. These systems have tended to be specialist rather than all-purpose, not rugged or particularly easy to deploy in the field, as well as being high cost.
In response, CRFS developed the RFeye® - a new kind of RF spectrum monitoring system. The RFeye is designed specifically to meet the demanding requirements of real-time multi-functional signals detection, analysis and geolocation, all in a ruggedized package that is easy and versatile to deploy and network in the field.
Combining the functions of a radio receiver, spectrum sensor, interference detector, direction finder, signal demodulator and security device - all in one - the RFeye is a highly flexible and cost-effective system. It offers excellent RF performance - for example, it has a much lower noise floor than most spectrum analyzers - and very high sweep speeds, enabling it to detect and distinguish low Real-time Spectrum Monitoring Locates Suspicious RF Traffic power signals from the noise floor and capture even transient spectrum events, such as burst transmissions, that would otherwise be missed. Continuous 24/7 monitoring raises alerts on any unauthorized or suspicious signals and enables real-time geolocation of the source.
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