Drone Attacks on Industrial Wireless: A New Front in Cyber Security

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Shows that consumer quadcopters can deliver RF payloads close enough to disrupt industrial wireless: commercial tests with Phantom 4 and Phantom 3 variants keep a jammer/transmitter within the critical proximity and autonomously maintain distance below ~25 mph, with a calculated effective interference distance of about 8.66 m to replicate historical EW effects. Drones carry ~1–2 kg, ~25 minute flight time and 3‑mile control limits, produce 2–10% packet loss against a field wireless gateway in live trials, and practical defenses include mesh topology, spectrum surveys and wired keyboards.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:04About Jeff Melrose
3. 5:36Cyber Physical defined
4. 6:05Electronic Cyber Physical Reality vs Assumptions
5. 8:25Electronic Warfare the new Cyber Frontier
6. 9:07Basic Electronic Warfare Terms
7. 10:48Did someone say Lasers?
8. 11:37Recent Electronic jamming incidents
9. 18:36So a Funny thing happened in our Net Lab one day
10. 19:57Drones carrying Disrupters to Industrial Wireless Antennas?
11. 24:10Can a Drone maintain Electromagnetic Distance Autonomously? On a fast moving target?
12. 28:27Can a Drone keep a Transmitter close Autonomously to a target?
13. 30:16Can a Drone keep a Transmitter close Autonomously? On a stationary target?
14. 31:35Can a Drone keep a Transmitter close Autonomously? On a Mowing target?
15. 39:47Industrial Wireless will need to go with MESH network topologies
16. 40:35Industrial Wireless Networks vs EMI vs Distance
17. 41:30Certain overhead areas need to be secured

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