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Austin, TX — Daniel Shepard and Sydney Norrell offered visitors to the UT campus a chance to get hands on with high-tech GPS receiver processing during Explore UT, the biggest open house in Texas. The RNL exhibit featured a chance to draw 3D shapes and figures with a GPS antenna that were then displayed on […]

Austin, TX — What’s the predictable endpoint of the trend toward ever cheaper, ever smaller, and ever more sensitive GPS?  It’s the GPS dot: a GPS tracking device first featured in the movie “The Da Vinci code” and now moving inexorably from fiction to non-fiction.  The GPS dot will fundamentally re-order our lives.  We’ll buy dots

“During the GNSS Vulnerability 2012 event at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory on Wednesday, experts discussed the threat posed by a growing number of GPS jamming and spoofing devices. The increasing popularity of the jammers is troubling, according to conference organizer Bob Cockshott, because even low-power GPS jammers pose a significant threat to cell phone systems,

“The illegal use of Global Positioning System (GPS) jammers in the UK has been revealed in a groundbreaking study. GPS jammers are believed to be mostly used by people driving vehicles fitted with tracking devices in order to mask their whereabouts. In one location the Sentinel study recorded more than 60 GPS jamming incidents in

“The Sentinel project, which has been running since January 2011, was designed to measure GPS jamming on UK roads. The project, run by GPS-tracking company Chronos Technology, picked up the illegal jamming incidents via four GPS sensors in trials lasting from two to six months per location.” Continue reading the ZDNet article, which features an interview

“GPS signals are being routinely jammed by devices that can be bought online for little money. While most jamming is not serious, there is the potential for criminals to block, or even fake, GPS signals, a conference will be told Wednesday. The evidence of illegal jamming in the U.K. comes from roadside monitoring carried out

“This free one-day event at the British National Physical Laboratory in Teddington (London) on Wednesday, February 22 will present results of current jamming detection, and consider emerging threats such as meaconing and spoofing.The seminar runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Interested participants must pre-register online. Todd Humphreys, director of the Radionavigation Laboratory at the

“Ships colliding at sea, stock markets crashing, transport networks in chaos: these are some of the nightmare scenarios that researchers studying GPS-jamming techniques this week warned we could be facing if suitable countermeasures aren’t produced. The newspapers gave substantial coverage on Wednesday to a conference at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in west London, which highlighted

“The Global Positioning System guides our ships at sea. It’s the centerpiece of the new next-gen air traffic control system. It even timestamps the millions of financial transactions made across the world each and every day. And it’s at extreme risk from criminals, terrorist organizations and rogue states—and even someone with a rudimentary GPS jammer

“GPS “spoofers”—devices that create false GPS signals to fool receivers into thinking that they are at a different location or different time—could be used to defraud financial institutions, according to Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas. On an innocuous level, GPS spoofing can lead to the confusing of in-car GPS systems so that users think