PRESENTED BY :

NAME : K .RAJESWARI
CLASS : ECE – B
ROLL NO : 16X41A0477
 CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 DEFINITION – SNIFFER
 IMEI
 DESIGNING OF THE SNIFFER
 SNIFFER BASE STATION

 UNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNA
 TRACKING SOFTWARE
 WORKING OF SNIFFER DEVICE
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 CONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION
 THE MAIN SCOPE OF THIS IS TO DETECT THE LOST
MOBILES.
 Each and every day thousands of mobiles have been lost
or misplaced.
 Though the effective way for blocking of the lost mobile to
prevent making or receiving the calls has been done by the
manufacturers of the mobiles with the help of IMEI number.
 For the detection of the lost mobiles sniffer plays an important
role.

 Sniffer has to be designed very precisely and size should be

reduced for easy mobility for the detection.

 SNIFFER

 The sniffer is basically a transceiver that works in the frequency

which is the special unused range that is operated by service
provider or it can be designed to operate at a frequency that is
of much different frequency than the one that is being used.
 IMEI

 Each mobile device has a unique IMEI number (INTERNATIONAL

MOBILE EQUIPMENT IDENTITY).

 IMEI numbering is 15 digit unique code that is used to identify GSM

phone.
 To know the IMEI number *#06# should be pressed the number

displayed in the LCD screen

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 When a phone is switched on, this unique IMEI number is

transmitted and checked against a data base of black listed

or grey listed phones in the network’s EIR.

 Grey listing will allow the phone to be used, but it can be

tracked to see who has it (via the SIM information).

GRAY LIST

Allow the phone to be used, but can be

tracked to see who has it.

BLACK LIST

Listing the phone from being used on any

number where there is an EIR match.
 DESIGNING FOR THE SNIFFER

 The sniffer device can be called as a mobile base station

that includes the following important components:

1. Sniffer base station

2. Unidirectional antenna

3. Tracking software
 SNIFFER BASE STATION

 The sniffer is a small base station, it includes transceiver

section.
 It should not operate at a frequency equal to the frequency
of the cell.
 It should operate at a frequency that is much different from the
frequency of the current cell in which the operation of detection
is being carried out.
 Frequency generated by transceiver is around 900MHz (VHF).
 UNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNA

 The directional antenna acts as the eyes for the sniffer

for the purpose of the detecting the lost mobile phones.
 Antenna is a device which works at specified frequencies
range for transmitting or receiving the data signal.
 In general, antennas transmit power depending on lobe
pattern which varies from one antenna to the other.
RADIATION PATTERN
 SOFTWARE FOR TRACKING

 The software is used for the tracking of the lost mobile

phone

 The programming is done with C or Java.

 However the C is most preferred as it is easily

embedded with the chips
 WORKING OF SNIFFERS

The working of sniffers is of two phases

 Before sniffer increases the frequency

 After sniffer increases the frequency

BEFORE SNIFFER INCREASES THE
FREQUENCY

Fig : The initial connection between the cellular

network and lost mobile phone
 BEFORE SNIFFER INCREASES THE
FREQUENCY

 In this a base station is used that works as a middle point of

mobile phone and MSC (Mobile Switching centre).

 There is two way communication between devices. Before the

communication establishment, the authentication of SIM card
(Using IMEI) and handset (Using EIR) is done.

 The EIR is located at MSC and it contains the IMEI of the lost
mobile.
AFTER SNIFFER INCREASES THE
FREQUENCY

Fig : The lost mobile phone connection establishes a

connection with the sniffer
 AFTER SNIFFER INCREASES THE
FREQUENCY
 The information from this communication is fed to sniffer device
and start to locate the mobile phone.
 The connection between BTS and device is lost due to EIR request.
 The lost device search the device to get locked and send the signal
which is received by sniffer device and connection between them is
established.
 Now IMEI of lost device is validated with stored IMEI and then
connection is established.
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 After that the location is traced. During this process, if another device
try to connect with sniffer then the connection is denied.

 This can’t be done with the GPS because the sniffer can only work

with frequency only used with operators.

 Now the antennas are used to track different positions

the lost the device.

Sniffer try to communicate with the lost mobile phone

Fig: the sniffer shown in fig tries to communicate

with the lost mobile.
ADVANTAGES
 This method is used for finding the lost
mobiles effectively.
 Overall effective cost of the design and
detection is low.
 low power consumption.
 Easy for the mobility.
DISADVANTAGES

 Though this method appears to be a little bit complex

involving the design of the sniffer.

 The power of the mobile should be good enough, the

mobile phone should not be in the shadow region.
CONCLUSION

 This topic deals about the idea of development

“Sniffer for the detection of lost Mobile phones” paves
a way by means of which the lost mobile phones can
be recovered. But the process of detection is yet to be
developed through the software and demo has been

developed .