Breakthrough cost and performance for continuous remote real-time spectrum monitoring and surveillance

The RFeye has been designed to operate remotely and self-sufficiently in all environments, actively monitoring the spectrum environment and capturing and relaying the relevant information in real time.

It rapidly sweeps from DC to 6 GHz (extendable to 18 GHz) with high probability of signal intercept over very wide spectrum. It supports state-of-the-art direction finding capability, including overlays of AOA, TDOA and POA, for accurate geolocation of suspicious or unauthorised transmitters.

The RFeye uses CRFS’s proprietary NCP protocol to communicate and process very large volumes of data at high speed, a job that is allocated to the Linux processor and FPGAs on the node itself. The node can be programmed to send back whatever information is required, from live Ethernet streaming to a single SMS message.

The performance of RFeye is superior to any other receiver of comparable cost. Key parameters include:

• Flexible frequency tuning modes:

- Low phase noise synthesiser: 40GHz/s
- Fast synthesiser: 60GHz/s
- Hyper sweep: 600GHz/s (max resolution 1MHz)

• Excellent Noise Figure (8dB-11dB from 10MHz to 6GHz)

• Low antenna port local oscillator re-radiation (typical -95dBm)

• Exceptionally low spurious components (both internal and external signal generated)

• Wide frequency extensions from DC to 18GHz

• High accuracy timing stamps with GPS (35ns) and RFeye SyncLinc system (<10ns)

• Extremely wide operating temperature range (-30 degC to +55 degC)

• Flexible power supply range from 10VDC to 56VDC (including Power On Ethernet)

• Tight coupling of the baseband processing and radio via expansion port for all antenna switching

• Powerful onboard real time DSP implemented in FPGA along with embedded Linux processor system

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