Chronos presenting at AVCIS and IAATI Joint National Vehicle Crime Conference
Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, UK – 16 September 2014, Prof. Charles Curry, Managing Director of Chronos Technology will deliver ‘Detecting GPS Jammers “Gone in 20 Seconds” – An update on UK research into the GPS jamming threat’ at the National Vehicle Crime Conference (24 & 25 Sept 2014), which is being held jointly by the Association of Chief Police Offers (ACPO) Vehicle Crime Intelligence Services (AVCIS) who work with law enforcement agencies and industry tackling organised vehicle crime; and the UK branch of the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators (IAATI), a strategic player in the vehicle crime arena, partnering with trusted organisations who are service providers in intelligence, enforcement, prevention and disruption activities.
The theme of the conference is ‘Disabling The Vehicle-Enabled Criminal’ and research in the UK by Chronos Technology, who led the GAARDIAN and SENTINEL projects, clearly illustrates the emerging threat of low cost GPS jammers for Jamming Assisted Crime (JAC). Recent evidence points to organised crime using more powerful devices with a much wider area of GPS denial as explained in the recent SENTINEL Project Report.
A car thief can steal a car or asset in 20 seconds and be instantly invisible by using a GPS jammer to neutralise the GPS enabled tracking system. Technology created by Chronos is now available to watch for these jammers. This technology can be deployed in vehicles, in fixed locations to geolocate the jammers and collocated with ANPR systems.
This paper will provide an update on the latest GPS Jamming vulnerability detection and threat analysis enabled by Innovate UK’s grant assisted projects - SENTINEL and AJR.
About the Speaker: Prof. Charles Curry, BEng, CEng, FIET
About Chronos Technology
Chronos is a global leader in GPS jamming and interference detection and location products and solutions and is a specialist technology company in the wider field of position, navigation and timing (PNT). Chronos supplies a comprehensive range of GNSS (GPS) products for the distribution of GNSS RF signals into indoor environments for both military and civilian applications. Chronos has developed a range of bespoke GPS timing products for time and frequency synchronisation introducing one of the world’s first GPS disciplined Chip Scale Atomic Clock products for OEM applications. Established in 1986, Chronos is also recognised as a global expert in time, timing, phase and monitoring for telecoms, energy/utilities and banking/financial institutions. Chronos designs SyncWatch™, the most versatile sync testing and measurement solution available on the market today, and TimePort™, a low power, lightweight, portable device that maintains time to within a few hundred nanoseconds of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in GPS denied locations. Chronos also offers a range of ‘PhaseReady’ services designed to help network operators assess and prepare their networks for the challenges they face as they prepare to rollout LTE-A services.