A group called We Re-Build had set up ham radio listening stations around Europe, monitoring the airwaves for any and all news vital to the situation on the ground.
Lacking cellphone signals in the region and with the authorities monitoring the airwaves, Abu Sayyaf negotiators would talk briefly on their cellphones before throwing their SIM cards away and fleeing the area.
Israel also monitors airwaves and restricts access to faster Internet speeds in the occupied Palestinian territories.
So we monitor airwaves for signals that drones use — identifying them by their signature so we know which are whitelisted and which aren't — then we can alert [our customer] when drones are detected that aren't supposed to there so that the operator can take action to safely take over the drone.
Airwave time and exposure is monitored and enforced by the state's Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (High Council for Audiovisual).
"I can tell how far away a storm is by how much static I hear over my radios," says Whall, an amateur radio enthusiast who has spent the last 20 years monitoring the shortwave airwaves on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee.
But it's the listeners who file complaints, he says -- the FCC does not monitor the airwaves.
In the rear of the planes, filled with high-powered computers and other sensors, intelligence specialists, many of whom speak Arabic or Farsi, monitor the airwaves, intercepting conversations from military communications links or other networks.
The justices are being asked to decide the constitutionality of the landmark health-care act, the ability of states to enforce strict immigration laws and whether the government can continue to monitor the airwaves for indecency.
The server continues to monitor the airwaves for unauthorized attempts to connect.
The improvements include advanced energy monitoring – essentially more data about your current energy usage – and something called Airwave, a program that will turn down your air conditioner and run the fan for a period of time, thereby saving energy.
