Detecting Battery Cells with Harmonic Radar

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7411-2783

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

5-2024

Publication Title

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Harmonic radar systems have been shown to be an effective method for detecting the presence of electronic devices, even if the devices are powered off. Prior work has focused on detecting specific non-linear electrical components (such as transistors and diodes) that are present in any electronic device. In this paper we show that harmonic radar is also capable of detecting the presence of batteries. We tested a proof-of-concept system on Alkaline, NiMH, Li-ion, and Li-metal batteries. With the exception of Li-metal coin cells, the prototype harmonic radar detected the presence of batteries in our experiments with 100% accuracy.

DOI

10.1145/3643833.3656137

Original Citation

Cesar Arguello, Beatrice Perez, Timothy J. Pierson, and David Kotz. Detecting Battery Cells with Harmonic Radar. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), pages 231–236. ACM, May 2024. doi:10.1145/3643833.3656137.

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