CloneWatch Features
As a comprehensive radio accountability solution, CloneWatch covers the bases. Features include:
- Dynamically adds suspected cloned radios to the Suspect List, based upon violations:
- Usage from an ID in an unassigned range
- Usage from an ID in an unallocated range
- Usage from an ID outside its assigned schedule of expected use
- Unauthorized usage of a restricted system feature
- Call overlaps over different talkgroups or sites
- Activity on multiple sites with an impossible drive distance (SmartZone systems)
- Rapid affiliations from a single unit
- Multiple affiliations are received when radio request is sent
- Alert is issued when unit is added to Suspect List
- Suspects are organized into the Suspect List. The list is sorted on many suspect properties and shows printable, real-time information on its suspects
- Suspects can be echoed in a Suspect Hot List which shows additional details on a suspect
- Suspects can be marked as exempt
- CloneWatch related resources are layed out in a tiered tree structure, so resources are organized and easy to manage
- Screen space is optimized with collapsible screen partitions
- Talkgroup and unit ID values are organized in "ranges" for quick data entry
CloneWatch
- How many cloned radios exist on the system?
- Are hackers doing more than listening in?
- Who is stealing airtime?
Most likely, cloned radios are stealing valuable airtime on your trunking system. Days and weeks can be spent trying to discover the culprits.
Enter Genesis CloneWatch.
CloneWatch from Genesis is a powerful add-on tool to our industry accepted GenWatch3® Trunking Management Suite which identifies and helps eliminate cloned radios. It monitors resources (talkgroups, sites and units) for suspicious activity. CloneWatch provides information every time a radio keys up, every site that was visited, and every second of airtime used or stolen. Use it on a SmartZone®, SmartNet®, Dimetra or P25 system as a powerful weapon against hackers.
How it Works
CloneWatch listens to the Control Channel (3600), the CAI (P25) or the ATIA (SmartZone) for user established parameters. CloneWatch alerts the user in the event system violations, such as:
- The same ID appears on a different talkgroup at exactly the same time or within a defined period of time
- A restricted (not permitted) ID or talkgroup is used
- A radio keys up at night which is normally used during the day (or vice-versa)
- A radio keys up, then 30 minutes later the same ID affiliates or keys up on a site that is 200 miles away. According to the Impossible Drive Distance rule, it is likely a clone (SmartZone systems).