In the afternoon of September 17, 2024 local time, a massive pager explosion in Lebanon killed 12 people and injured about 2,800, followed by a large number of pager (BP) explosions in several places on the afternoon of 18, which has now killed at least 32 people.
There has been a lot of discussion about the explosion, and the public discussion about the pager explosion has extended to concerns about communication equipment and network security.
The past and present life of BP aircraft
As a communication product of the last century, BP machine was popular in the 1980s and 1990s, when it frequently appeared in Hong Kong movies, a small device pinned to the waist, emitting a beep signal sound, is the current generation of young people through the retained image of the BP machine's initial impression. With the emergence of fixed-line and mobile phone electronic products, the figure of the BP machine with the arrival of the millennium has also been left in the last century.
In today's era of communication and electronic products, why did the explosion news of BP machine appear?
BP machine commonly known as pager, also known as pager, call machine, is an old-fashioned radio receiving equipment. It receives paging signals from the network side (communication base stations), converts them into numbers, letters or Chinese characters, and displays them to the user through the display screen. As a pure signal receiving device, the pager does not transmit signals and has the advantage of being difficult to be located.
With the rapid development of Internet communication capabilities comes the problem of electronic surveillance technology, which is why in February 2024, the Lebanese Party ordered senior personnel to give up the use of mobile phones and adopt an old-fashioned means of communication - pagers (BPS), in an attempt to avoid government personnel's location tracking.
Private network technology ensures network security
For the cause of the explosion of the pager, there are two big guesses: one, through hacking means, make its lithium battery short circuit or overload, which causes the battery to heat up and release energy to cause the explosion; Second, during batch operations at the supply chain end, explosives are placed in the pagers in advance.
No matter what the reason, this undoubtedly reveals the omission in the process of network equipment security. In this context, the Internet of Things private network, as an application system that provides high reliability and high security, can ensure that the needs of security protection are fully considered in network services, and can effectively prevent security risks such as data leakage and hacker attacks. In the safety monitoring of the docking equipment, the goal of optimizing the supply chain is completed to ensure its safety.
(1) TPUNB
TPUNB wireless narrowband communication system technology is a core core technology focused on the Internet of Things. It has two advantages of solid and secure underlying communication capability and efficient and flexible system platform capability. It can flexibly build a secure iot private network in various scenarios, effectively prevent illegal access and block the possibility of network attacks, and ensure the security of communication data. It is widely used in many fields such as smart city, smart park, smart power, industrial Internet of Things, etc.
(2) ZETA
ZETA is an Internet of Things communication technology independently developed by Linline Technology. It is based on UNB low power wide area network technology protocol standard. It has the characteristics of wide coverage, low service cost and low energy consumption, and can meet the connection requirements of low frequency of data exchange, low connection cost and complex environment in the Internet of Things environment.
(3) Chirp-IoT™
ChirpIoT ™ technology is based on Panchi's years of in-depth research on linear spread spectrum signals such as radar, and on this basis, the change of linear spread spectrum signals is improved to achieve a wireless communication technology for long-distance transmission. It has significant advantages in sensitivity, blocking lead selection, etc., and improves communication reliability.
(4) TurMass™
TurMass ™, a low-power long-distance transmission technology and networking system developed by DaOBiolink, is a large-capacity narrowband transmission technology based on large-scale antennas, and is the core technology of independent intellectual property rights produced in China. In terms of anti-interference ability, it supports spatial interference suppression, and can suppress in-band interference more than 15dB; Support intelligent spectrum detection, active frequency hopping to avoid interference, to ensure the security of Internet of Things information.
(5) WIoTa
WIoTa (Wide-range Internet Of Things communic Ation protocol) is a communication protocol optimized for wide-area wireless IoT communication with fully independent intellectual property rights in China. WIoTa communication protocol has designed a deeply optimized short message mode for the characteristics of high uplink proportion and low power consumption of IoT, avoiding the complex handshake mechanism in traditional communication protocols and reducing the communication power consumption of IoT. At the same time, the control channel and data channel in the physical layer are designed to simplify the processing, reduce the overhead and power consumption.
(6) LaKi
LaKi is a new set of Internet of Things wireless technology launched by KM Electronics after years of painstaking research and development, and is a rare complete wireless communication technology that includes the protocol layer LaKiplus and the physical layer RF SoC chip. In terms of data security between terminals and gateways, LaKi technology transmits data through ciphertext and supports AES128 encryption, thus improving the data security of LaKi network.
Conclusion
From the pager explosion incident, we can see that while technology brings convenience, there are also potential risks. As an important cornerstone to ensure the security of the Internet of Things, the Internet of Things private network technology has a strong security protection capability, which brings a more secure and reliable environment to the Internet of Things. It is believed that in the future, the Internet of Things private network technology will play a more important role in creating a safer and better future for human society.
This paper is from Ulink Media, Shenzhen, China, the organizer of IOTE EXPO (IoT Expo in China)
