Communications

Communications

gps jamming

$100B worth of damages is created by cargo theft every year, of which a major part involves using GPS jammers bought online for $20....

The PHASA-35 high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (HALE UAV) could stay airborne for a whole year using nothing but solar power. The project...

Bluetooth is a widely deployed platform for wireless communications between mobile devices. As opposed to WiFi, it is not based on a network connecting...

Every year, in the USA alone, an average of 54 firefighters and 165 police officers are killed, tens of thousands are injured and many...

During an emergency or disaster event, the response speed of the rescue teams and the coordination among the forces managing the incident are critical....

Protecting against phishing attacks, in which malicious actors attempt to gain access to a user’s credentials (and then to systems and networks) through social...

A new, twin-engined fixed-wing UAV designed for maritime surveillance missions has been exposed by Tekever. The AR5 is designed to address maritime concerns such...
twitter

An international team of researchers has developed a new algorithm that analyzes Twitter data to identify smaller disaster-related events, known as sub-events, and generate...

The growing use of UAS in different missions requires a centralized command center to achieve full advantages of the growing number of specialized payloads...

A contract to provide small UAVs ISR services aboard the US Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter fleet has been signed. Insitu’s ScanEagle will undertake...
fingerprint

Future smartphones will feature a temperature-sensitive fingerprint sensor placed under the screen. Finger sensor could be the safer, more efficient solution to authentication problems....
chips

Electronic devices that are critical to everyday life and to national defense are dependent on increasingly sophisticated semiconductor integrated circuits, or “chips”. From laptop...
surveillance camera

A new technology allows public surveillance cameras to send personalized messages to people without knowing the address of the phone. The technology can be...
cell-phone

Researchers are trying to transform a smartphone into a Zika detecting device. A new research details efforts to rapidly and accurately diagnose Zika using...
battlefield

A new emergency beacon will save soldiers that get separated from their unit or lost in a hostile landscape. US soldiers presently carry a device...
phishing

The theft of user credentials, i.e. phishing, or delivery of malware through bogus links, has been a major cybersecurity problem. While emails have been...
communication

Emergency mobile communications technology developed by an Israeli company is being used by rescue teams working to save 12 teenagers and their coach trapped...

A 5G emergency network service that uses airship drones to search for survivors in the aftermath of disasters has been unveiled by South Korean...
connectivity

“Connectivity for everyone, everywhere is one of the great challenges of our generation. Facebook has already connected nearly 100 million people as a result...
dis

Canada stands to benefit from a space-related search and rescue system. The country has awarded Phase II of the Medium Earth Orbit Search and...
special operations

The SEALs US Navy elite force is tasked with carrying out covert, dangerous and challenging missions across the globe. The Special Operations Command (SOCOM)...
traffic

The global market for UAVs is growing rapidly as drones become established in diverse vertical markets such as agriculture, oil and gas, and logistics....

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