The spectrum monitoring allows us to survey the quality of our RF communication signals from anywhere in the world and detect disturbances in them, interferences and unexpected signal level drops, check for an efficient use of the spectrum and discover infringements and irregularities based on RF spectrum masks taken by a network of always-on (24/7) monitoring equipment.

The high demand for spectrum bandwidth comes along with the need for a real time monitoring of the public domain RF spectrum to ensure an efficient use by their right holders. There is an increasing trend for fully automated spectrum monitoring systems and regulatory authorities are demanding distributed monitoring platforms controlled from one central location.

What is the spectrum monitoring of radio frequency spectrum?

The spectrum monitoring captures, stores and processes raw samples of the spectrum in a frequency band looking for patterns that would indicate a problem, understanding the signal band as a whole over time (instead of analyzing isolated data from one or several channels).

This is a completely new way to monitor the RF spectrum: Until now, spectrum monitoring techniques did not understand signal analysis as a whole, but as the analysis of certain channels for quality drops, occurrences of new channels (which could be considered pirate or irregular) and unusual drops of legitimate channels (due to network drops or unauthorized interfering broadcasts).