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Cascaded GSM Detector-Jammer Design
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Arya B.R.
Department of Physics,
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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Amritapuri Campus, Kerala, India
aryarameshckl1998@g mail.co m
Abstract- Recently, communication and technology are
emergently increased with the assistance of electronic devices,
which are widely used in erroneous ways such as in the
examination halls, confidential rooms, and so on. Among the
electronic devices one of them may be the use of mobile phones.
The unauthorized use of mobile phones is a dominant problem in
different sectors of society. These devices are a significant threat
to security and the monitoring process even inside the prison.
The proposed system is very helpful in places where the use of cell
phones is hardly permitted. S pying and unauthorized video
transmission can be detected and blocked by this suggested
design. The proposed system can detect as well as block incoming
and outgoing calls, messages, and video transmissions even if the
mobile phone is in soundless mode. This pocket-sized cascaded
detector-jammer circuit described here using LM358 IC can
identify the presence of mobile phones by detecting the RF
transmission signal in the frequency ranges of 2G, 3G, and 4G
networks and can block the signals of the same frequency range.
Keywords—Cascaded Detector-Jammer, LM358 IC, Global System
for Mobile communications (GSM) Frequency Signals
I. INTRODUCTION
The use of mobile phones needs to be restricted in certain
places like examination halls, on a plane, schools,etc. Often it
becomes difficult to detect mobile phones within the students
[1,6]. Before discussing the proposed design consider the
detecting techniques already available in the market. An
ordinary tuned LC circuit detector cannot detect the
transmission signal ranging from 0.9 to 3 GHz used by mobile
phones. The tank circuit [LC circuit] can only detect low-
frequency signals up to the MHz range but a mobile phone
produces an RF signal in the GHz frequency range. The
existing detection and jamming techniques work individually
as two systems with components that are very affordable for
construction, but require precision tuning and are found to be
inaccurate. Hence this system can be substituted with a more
reliable and flexible system as suggested here. Consequently,
a circuit for detecting and jamming signals by a single
cascaded design in the gigahertz frequency range is required.
This can be solved with the system, which uses a standard
operational amplifier LM358 IC (Integrated Circuit). The
results show that the suggested design is more suitable for
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Dr. Vinod B.R.
Dept. of Electronics and Communication,
College of Engineering,
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
vinodbrcet@gmail.com
such a cell phone detector-jammer circuit. The proposed
mobile phone detector can detect RF signals during incoming
and outgoing calls, messages , and video transmission. When
the call button is pressed, an output LED within the system
starts blinking continuously and it lasts until the RF signal
breaks and a similar interrupting signal is produced by the
jammer that blocks the signal. This pocket-sized system can
detect and block the signal from a stimulated mobile phone
within a range of gigahertz frequencies. Since fewer numbers
of components are required for this cascaded detector-jammer
system, its size is relatively small and is easily portable. Also,
it is reliably useful in many applications.
The proposed system consists of a battery, an op-amp,
an RF antenna, a tuning circuit, an RF section, and an antenna
for transmission as shown in Fig.1.
Fig.1: Block diagram of the proposed Detector-Jammer circuit
II. RELATED WORKS
The utilization of cell phones in some restricted areas
such as examination halls, confidential places , and prisons
cannot be manually detected easily. Many other detectors are
available with certain limitations in their designs and working
in the existing world. Detectors using tank circuits face
limitations in their implementation and the space needed for
the same compared with this system proposed here. Some
designs with greater time lag are in use where they require
constant radio frequency transmission from the cell phone for
detection and have complex circuit designs with heavy
components [5]. Cell phone detectors and jammers with
buzzers can be seldom used where they serve as purposeless in
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need of places with complete silence expected. There are
detectors and jammers implemented with components with
high costs which is a limitation to those purposes where cost
serves as a major drawback [4,13]. Most of the existing
designs are quite expensive and not precise. There requires a
system that is efficient to detect the presence of these
electronic gadgets. On comparing with these limitations, the
proposed novel system serves as a satisfying requirement in
detection and jamming that comprises low cost, efficient
components, and easy implementation. The system with an
LM358 IC detects and blocks the Global System for Mobile
Communication (GSM) signals from a mobile phone. Due to
its relatively smaller size, low cost, and greater efficiency, this
system is suggested.
III. PROPOSED CASCADED DETECTOR-JAMM ER
SYSTEM
A. Principle of System Design
The detector circuit can detect the GSM signals from
the cell phones. The jammer circuit can produce a frequency
that acts as a hindrance to the signal frequency from the
detected mobile phone. This interfering signal blocks the
frequencies produced from the activated cell phone. The
design discussed here can hinder the signal frequencies of the
GSM phones ranging from 900MHz to 3GHz. To satisfy the
conditions, the jammer power should be identical to the signal
power. The jamming effects can be calculated by the
jamming-to-signal ratio(J/S). The suggestion for cascading of
the jammer to the detector circuit can be done as in Fig.2.
Fig. 2: Proposed Detector-Jammer circuit
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IV. WORKING PRINCIPLE
The detector circuit can detect radio frequency
signals from mobile phones. In the detector circuit, the
capacitor that detects the radio frequency signal can store
energy like the tank circuit and oscillates within the received
frequency. As a result, the LED starts flickering and the
positive terminal of the LED is fed to the base of the jammer
circuit as its input. The negative terminal of the LED is fed to
the ground of the jammer circuit shown in Fig.2. The jammer
circuit can transmit the frequency equal to those detected by
the detector circuit and hinder the further transmission of
radiofrequency signals from the cell phone and can block
them. This is done by the tuner circuit in the jammer design.
As the detected frequency from the cell phone is passed to the
input of the jammer, the tuner circuit within the jammer design
can tune to the received frequency and produce frequency to
block the received one. The RF amplifier within the jammer
including the transistor augments the power of output
frequency that determines the range of jamming zone. The
circuit then produces an interrupting signal of frequency equal
to the signal frequency from the cell phones. By this
interrupting signal, the cellphone fails to receive or transmit
any kind of data. After this condition, the cell phone can
receive or transmit data only when the jammer is turned off
[8,14]. The output of the jammer circuit is the monopole
antenna which can transmit the signals. And hence the system
can detect and block the frequency ranging from 900MHz to
3GHz that an ordinary GSM phone uses.
Op-amp LM358 is used in the circuit as a comparator.
LM358 serves as a low power dual channel op-amp to give
high gain, two internally frequency compensated, and
independent operational amplifiers. This may come with
MOSFET inputs and bipolar outputs and to give very high
impedance and very low input current, the input has MOSFET
transistors. Thus, it has a very high-performance pace. LM358
removes the necessity of dual supplies in the circuit. This
provides direct sensing close to ground and output voltage.
This controller unit has a large output voltages wing. As one
lead of the capacitor is connected to DC, which is the positive
input, and the other leads to the negative input of the op-amp,
the capacitor is charged due to the energy storage. At this
stage the op-amp is balanced, so the output is zero. Whenever
a current is induced in its input, the op-amp gives the high
output. This happens when the mobile phone radiates energy
and the capacitor starts oscillating.
The output unit has a 5mm LED that plays a crucial role in this
system. LED used here is a specialized form of p-n junction
diode designed to optimize the light output. The typical type
of red LED used here achieves full brightness in microseconds
[10]. When the mobile phone detector detects the signal and it
gives an input signal to the LM358 IC and hence it gives an
output to the BC547 transistor producing a collector output
that makes the LED works. As input signal frequency changes
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the Op-amp produces alternately high and low outputs that
make the LED blinks [2, 3, 16]. The signal is then passed to
the input of the jammer circuit that has a tuning circuit to
produce oscillations. The capacitor C1 and inductor L1
constitute the tuning circuit. The tuned circuit works like an
oscillator with zero-resistance and the C1 and L1 oscillate
with the resonant frequency and produce a very high and
minimum damping frequency that blocks the cell phone
signals [15]. Hence the circuit is made for self-tuning. The
capacitors C2 and C3 generate random noise corresponding to
the frequency generated within the tuning circuit and finally
the signal is passed to the RF section. The transistor T2,
resistor R1, and capacitors C4 and C5 constitute the RF
amplifier section and, the frequency from the tuned circuit is
amplified here [14]. Then the amplified signal is passed to the
antenna through capacitor C6 and the antenna transmits the
interrupting signal to block the cell phone frequency [Fig.5].
Whenever there is an incoming or outgoing call, SMS, or
video transmission occurs this whole process repeats resulting
in the detection and jamming of the mobile phone signals [15].
V.COMPARISON OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM WITH
EXISTING DESIGNS
The proposed system suggests a novel design with a
detector cascaded with a jammer circuit. The circuit has
several advantages compared to other detector-jammer
designs. There are extant designs that have the detector and
the jammer circuit as the two distinct designs. In the proposed
system both the designs are assembled to form a simple,
compact, flexible, and intuitive design. At present, the detector
and jammer circuits can individually block frequency in and
around several meters using these components but cannot
together work for the gigahertz ranges [7]. This design blocks
the signals around the distance up to 9 meters for the GSM
signals. The system needs only a 4.5V and a 3V power supply
instead of regulated power normally in practice. The proposed
system can operate in battery and hence is easily portable.
This system has a low power rating and can store energy for a
long time. The circuit does not require any other active
components other than the two transistors that serve the need
for low-cost productions. The low-power jammer circuit
suggested here can block frequencies up to 9 meters. The
detector circuit can be further modified to detect GSM signals
to this distance and therefore the efficiency of the design can
be improved. The proposed system contains innovative
components like an efficient LED lighting system [9] that can
be used for further LED-based applications of this circuit.
The role of a Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator (VCO) is
performed by the simple tuning circuit that produces the
oscillations and hence its space implementation, and
complexity can be avoided. A jamming circuit requires a
power supply, an IF section, and an RF section. The detector-
jammer circuits existing have an IF section which is more
complicated by its working and implementation [11,12]. But
here the capacitors C2 and C3 as shown in Fig.5 constitute the
noise generator part by producing a particular frequency to
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occlude the radio frequency signal of the mobile phone and
serves as a carrier mask for the jamming function instead of
the IF section in the existing designs. In this design, the noise
generator lies within the jammer circuit.
T ABLE 1: Frequency bands of operation
Mobile Frequency Working condition of
Network Bands (MHz) the system
(India)
2G (GSM)900-1800 Detects and Blocks
(0.9-1.8GHz)
3G 900-2100 Detects and Blocks
(WCDMA) (0.9-2.1GHz)
4G (4G 850-2500 Detects and Blocks
LTE) (0.9-2.5GHz)
The existing designs can detect and block the signal
under different frequency ranges but together cannot block
them. The suggested system can detect and block the signals
of the frequency ranges of 2G, 3G, and 4G networks as in
Table 1 [15] and it can be made to detect and block 5G
(24.5GHz-27.5GHz) signals if the stage of the amplifier is
increased from one to around three stages. This jammer circuit
produces the same frequency interrupting signal, similar to the
cell phone frequency transmitted from the base station. For
GSM900, the design provides a frequency equal to the
downlink (935-960 MHz) that requires lower power for
jamming[17]. Another advantage of this design is that it is
very flexible on comparing with extant detector-jammer
circuits to build on auxiliary components like microprocessors
which can operate on time relaying operations. The jammer
circuit requires only a single strand wire antenna. So in total,
the whole detector-jammer circuit requires only two monopole
antennas and hence the design costs can be effectively lowered
and becomes user-friendly.
VI. METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION
The components of this system can be placed in a Printed
Circuit Board (PCB) with lines and pads which connect
different points. Various individual components are connected
electrically by certain traces within this PCB along with an
FR4 base material. Soldering can be made to make electrical
connections within the PCB and a 15W to 30W soldering iron
with a pin-point heat supply can be used to fasten the
components. The production cost of the proposed system is
very less. Components like capacitors and resistors used here
are of very low cost with greater efficiency. Capacitors and
resistors cause only a 10% cost of the total system. The op-
amp used here costs only 20% of the total cost. The rest of the
costs are only within a value around one by the tenth of the
actual cost of a detector and a jammer circuit. Hence this
system is cheap and more reliable to use and serves as a major
advantage comparing to other existing detectors .
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VII. EXPERIM ENT AND RESULT ANALYSIS

The electric components are used to design the optimized

detector-jammer circuit and are tested accordingly. The
experimental results are analyzed and verified using cell
phones. Testing is done with cell phones using 2G, 3G, and
4G networks. When the circuit is not turned on, the cell phone
works in the GSM frequency range. The circuit at the
detection mode can detect radio frequencies between 0.9 to
3GHz which is the required range of radiofrequency signals
for the working of cell phones and the LED starts flickering.
When the cell phone is kept at a distance within the range of
detection and jamming zone, the signal bars of the cell phone
reduces and finally disappear, that is the circuit detects and
blocks the 2G, 3G, and 4G networks within the frequency
range of 900MHz to 3GHz. The ease of testing the circuit with
no complex devices also makes the design more favorable for
the simple practical detector-jammer designs.

Fig. 4: Mobile Phone Detector Circuit

Fig. 3: Detector Circuit

Fig. 5: GSM Jammer Circuit

T ABLE 2: List of components of the detector
COMPONENTS SPECIFICATION VIII. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE
IC LM358
Transistor BC547 In the proposed system, a novel cascaded detector-jammer
LED 5mm circuit is recommended to block the mobile phone signal in
Capacitor C1 1µF 16V electrolytic restricted areas. This handy pocket-sized system can detect the
RF signals from a cell phone with transmission frequency
Capacitor C2 1µF 16V electrolytic
ranging from 0.9GHz to 3GHz comes under the category
Capacitor C3 100µF 16V electrolytic
within 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. This circuit can detect the
Resistor R1 100kΩ 2G range frequency from 900MHz to 1800MHz, 3G
Resistor R2 220kΩ frequencies up to 2100MHz, and 4G frequencies up to 2.5GHz
Resistor R3 1kΩ . The prototype of the jammer design suggested is limited
within the range of about 9 meters. The frequency detection
Trim pot VR1 50k
range can be increased by adding a pre-amplification stage
Antenna 15cm Single Strand Wire
between the capacitor and the IC. This circuit can be further
Power supply 4.5 DC Supply improved to detect the 5G radiofrequency signals by
PCB Printed Circuit Board increasing the stages of amplification. The design discussed is
Soldering Iron Pin-Point Heat Supply simple and user-friendly. This hardware can be further

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