About Company
IRCOS has been operating on the Russian and international markets more than 30 years and has a considerable experience in developing and supplying automated spectrum monitoring systems and their components for the benefit of the state and private organization of the Russian Federation, as well as for other countries.
Back then, we started from creating and supplying the first-generation hardware with limited functionality based on imported radio receiving equipment and in-house developed hybrid processors. Now, we produce modern multifunctional and high-performance equipment based on our in-house design and on the basis of digital panoramic radio receivers and modules of the ARGAMAK series. Each of our radio monitoring systems has its users in law enforcement agencies, regulating authorities, and security departments. Our Company’s technical means are recognized and demanding not only in Russia but far outside.
Over the years of our existence:
- We have built an efficient team of highly qualified employees
- We have developed scientific and practical approach to design of automated systems and technical radio monitoring means, digital processing of radio signals
- Based on the latest requirements to radio monitoring technical means, we have implemented the full equipment production cycle from developing hardware and software components to putting them into operation on customer sites, providing technical support and specialist training
- We have developed and organized production of several generations of various automated radio monitoring equipment, and we are continuously updating the equipment and software packages
- Our company is not just a supplier of individual technical means now, but a producer and supplier of automated systems that ensure full-scale control of the entire aggregate of radio monitoring functions and means at the level of a country, region, district, institution and meet all the latest requirements and recommendations
- We have implemented a quality control system
- We are continuously carrying out scientific and applied research to improve the efficiency of our technical means. The results of the research were reflected in seven doctoral dissertations and eighteen master's dissertations defended by our employees
- The innovative character of our research and development is confirmed by 22 Russian patents, 27 certificates of state registration for computer programs; we issued more than 200 scientific and technical publications, 8 monographs, and 5 study guides dedicated to designing and applying radio monitoring systems, including the monographs: AUTOMATED SPECTRUM MONITORING SYSTEMS AND THEIR COMPONENTS (2nd edition, Goryachaya liniya-Telecom Edition. -
2022), RADIOMONITORING: PROBLEMS, METHODS, AND EQUIPMENT (4th edition, Goryachaya liniya-Telecom Edition -2015), RADIO MONITORING: PROBLEMS, METHODS AND EQUIPMENT (Springer,2009) and «ADIO MONITORING. AUTOMATED SYSTEMS AND THEIR COMPONENTS (Springer,2018) - Our specialists are active participants in the work of the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); they prepared sixteen contributions on behalf of the Russian Federation, and their materials were included, among others, in ITU Handbook “Spectrum Monitoring”.
- A series of the company's products are certified as measurement equipment, and methods of their usage are validated and approved
- For the development of the radio monitoring equipment during the period of 2002-2020, the company was awarded seven Quality and Security Guarantee medals by INTERPОLITEX International Forums and 6 first-degree medals by the Security Technologies International Forum.
The solution of radio monitoring tasks indoor and out door is taking place in the context of a sharply increased volume of operating radio-electronic means, expansion of their range, transition to new technologies of information transmission, and widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Existing tools do not fully solve arisen problems. There is a pressing need in significant improvement of the performance characteristics of radio monitoring equipment, expanding their functionality and areas of use.
The main goal of the company in the current conditions is the development of Automated Spectrum Monitoring Systems (ASMS) and their components to solve problems in the following directions:
1. Measuring parameters of radio emissions from broadcasting and communication stations, sources of interference, monitoring their location and performing other functions of radio frequency services in the interests of the National Radio Spectrum Management System.
It main purpose is to provide information about the actual utilization of radio frequency spectrum and locations of their sources, parameters and identifiers of telecommunication systems, their compliance with existing regulations and licenses. Within the scope of this area, our company developed the ARMADA Automated Spectrum Monitoring System during
ARMADA ASMS was the basis of the automated system for radio frequency spectrum monitoring which was used during the 27th Summer Universiade that was held in the city of Kazan in July 2013. This system included a situation room that performed the control center functions fixed remotely-controlled stations for radio monitoring and direction finding, mobile measurement laboratories, mobile radio monitoring stations, as well as manpack equipment. Among the features of this system is the use of compact remotely-controlled radio monitoring stations installed at the Universiade sites for round-the-clock monitoring of the electromagnetic environment and preventive protection of the most important frequency bands.
In 2018 National Automated Spectrum Monitoring System ARMADA was supplied and implemented in a foreign country. Now it's successfully operated.
This type of technical means is mostly used by radio frequency services of the Russian Federation and other states, mobile communication operators, long-distance radio monitoring services, and so on. At the present time, ARMADA ASMS is enlarged with new functions. Its components are becoming even more popular in the Russian Federation and supplied to foreign customers.
2. Monitoring of emissions from radio communication stations and active electronic equipment on the ground, water surface and in airspace, including control channels, telemetry, data transmission and radio communications, located on unmanned and manned aerial vehicles.
The main purpose is detection of unauthorized radio emission and localization of their sources in the areas of counterterrorism operations, maneuvers and other locally performed operations, along the borders and in cross-border regions, within a limited enclosed territory, early detection and localization of UAVs with active radio electronic means. The main consumers of the equipment and software are law enforcement, regulatory, security, and institutional agencies.
Engineers of IRCOS JSC have developed a family of fixed, mobile, portable, and manpack technical means of radio monitoring afield, on water surface and in air. Offered products are based on single-channel and two-channel digital panoramic radio receiver of ARGAMAK family with maximum simultaneous bandwidth of up to 24 MHz (Model 4) and 100 MHz (Model 5).
They solve problems of automated radio monitoring, detection and automatic direction finding, reception, recording and technical analysis of radio signals in real time and in post-processing mode:
- Ground active radio electronic emitters, including stations of radio communications and jammers
- Active radio electronic equipment, including control channels, telemetry, data transmission and radio communications, located on unmanned and manned aerial vehicles.
3. Detection of unauthorized radio emissions, assessment of their degree of danger, localization of their sources inside the premises of remote controlled objects (national, regional and departmental levels), in individual premises and vehicles.
The main purpose is detection of unauthorized radio emission, identification and localization of their sources in the areas of counterterrorism operations, maneuvers and other locally performed operations, along the borders and in cross-border regions, within a limited enclosed territory, as well as at premises of a territory under control, in stand-alone buildings or vehicles. The main consumers of the equipment and software are law enforcement, regulatory, security, and institutional agencies.
As far as this area is concerned, our company has long-term experience in supplying the systems for detection, direction finding and localization of radio emission sources, equipment for identification of radio emission in premises, control of efficiency of data protection technical means, distant radio monitoring of premises, as well as checking local zones and vehicles. These technical means have been used successfully for many years in the Russian Federation and abroad, and they are becoming even more popular.