KASMON

National Automatic Radio Spectrum Monitoring System

KenBIT winning the public unlimited tender organized by the Office of Electronic Communication developed a software for a National Automatic Radio Spectrum Monitoring System (KASMON). The system monitors the electromagnetic spectrum, bearings radio stations and their localizations, provides an automatic process of radio emission measurements. Thanks to the implemented high-tech instrumentation (radio bearing finder, radio sets, spectrum analyzers, antenna systems with commutators and rotors) and customized software, the measurement is automated which ensures fast and effective execution, in accordance with ITU-R recommendations. The operator with the use of automated measurement actions can more easily assess the value of received and processed results thanks to the graphic visualization in the form of different types of images, as well as in the form of printed measurement report. KASMON makes for an invaluable and indispensable measurement instrument for the Office of Electronic Communications, which is used for fulfilling its statutory responsibilities as far as controlling the radio spectrum is concerned.

Software architecture

The software controlling KASMON is built in a multilayer architecture. Three components may be running implemented at each control position of the monitoring station: local data base, remote access (server application) and, if required, the client application. This architecture is applied both to work on-site and for remote work.

Software’s features

  • Managing of authorizations and access to a station
  • Managing of the station’s configuration
  • Managing of the measurement procedures’ definitions
  • Executing and scheduling measurements
  • Detecting the illegal emissions
  • Monitoring and analyzing the occupancy of a frequency band
  • Taking the bearings through radio and locating the emission sources
  • Amplitude radiolocation through antenna rotation
  • Scheduling of locating the emission sources
  • Recording received signals and linking the records with measurement tasks and bearings

Measurement functions performed by the software

  • Measuring the carrier frequency and permissible deviation
  • Measuring the strength of the electromagnetic field
  • Measuring the average signal level
  • Measuring the emission bandwidth
  • Measuring the modulation parameters
  • Measurement with the use of a mask
  • Initial measurement results classifying
  • Visualizing the data from measurement instruments (also remote ones)
  • Listening and subjectively evaluating the measured emission (also from the remote receivers)
  • Generating the reports containing the measurement results

Software’s tasks

  • Executing the preplanned and predefined measurements
  • Managing of the measurement procedures’ definitions
  • Managing of the remote, competitive access to the measurement station
  • Managing the measurement in the real time
  • Providing the information gathered through the measurement to the users of the system
  • Generating reports and analyzing the results
  • Ensuring the data exchange between the stations
  • Data coherence assurance
  • Ensuring the access monitoring and security of information
  • Remote control of distant measurement stations

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