Chronos presenting at ION GNSS+ 2014, Tampa, USA

Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, UK – 5 September 2014, Prof. Charles Curry, Managing Director of Chronos Technology will deliver a paper entitled: Detecting GPS Jammers “Gone in 20 Seconds” at the 54th Meeting of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee today at ION GNSS+ 2014 Conference at the Tampa Convention Centre, Florida, USA.

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. Once in a nearby quiet place he can remove any tracking technology and drive to his safe location to store or dismantle the stolen vehicle or asset.

The use of a GPS jammer makes the criminal instantly visible! Technology is now available to watch for these jammers. This technology can be deployed in vehicles, in fixed locations and collocated with ANPR systems.

This paper will provide an update on the latest GPS Jamming vulnerability detection and threat analysis enabled by Technology Strategy Board grant assisted projects - SENTINEL and AJR.


About the Speaker
Prof. Charles Curry, BEng, CEng, FIET is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and founder & Managing Director of Chronos Technology Ltd. Charles graduated in Electronics from Liverpool University in 1973, and started his career at GEC Hirst Research Centre working on silicon MOS boundary research, progressing to Racal Instruments where he was responsible for sales of test equipment including specialist frequency and time products such as Loran C and Caesium standards. Later with GSE Rentals Charles was involved with some of the first civil GPS and laptop PC deployments into the North Sea offshore oil industry during the early 1980s.

He founded Chronos, a leading system integrator for synchronisation and timing products in the UK telecom industry, in 1986. Chronos has supplied and installed thousands of GPS & Timing systems worldwide for mobile and fixed line telecom operators. The Chronos Synchronisation MasterClass has been delivered to more than a 1000 delegates across the globe.

Charles founded the International Telecom Sync Forum (ITSF) in 2001 and chairs the ITSF Steering Group. He is also a member of the Workshop in Sync in Telecommunications Systems (WSTS) Steering Group which meets annually in Boulder, Colorado. Charles is on the Steering Group for the Technology Strategy Board’s Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) for Digital Systems - Location and Timing Programme. Charles is also a member of the Industry Advisory Boards for the Universities of Liverpool and Bath, Electrical and Electronics Faculties.

In 2012 Charles was awarded Honorary Professorships from the University of Bath, Faculty of Engineering & Design, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering and the University of Liverpool, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics.

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 including receivers, recorders and simulators, and infrastructure (antennas, splitters, repeaters) for the distribution of GNSS RF signals into indoor environments in 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, and has a long history of supplying equipment and services relating to all aspects of timing and synchronisation implementation from initial technology consultation, test equipment and acceptance plans through to lab and field trials and ultimately network rollout. 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.

For more information please visit:
www.chronos.co.uk
www.gps-world.biz
www.phaseready.com