Towards integration of Command and Control systems with IoT — WonderBit’s contribution to NATO’s Science and Technology Organization
WonderBit’s founders have been given the opportunity to co-author a research paper which was presented at the International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS) 2022. The aim of ICMCIS is to exchange ideas on development and implementation of advanced information and communications technologies into military systems.
Research papers produced by NATO’s Science & Technology Organization (STO) community, a community of more than 6,000 actively engaged scientists, which draws upon the expertise of more than 200,000 people in allied and partner nations, are responsible for a significant number of papers which reach ICMCIS.
The paper titled “Towards integration of Command and Control systems with Internet of Things” explores open-source projects and dives into scenarios in which Internet of Things (IoT) can benefit integration with Command and Control (C2) systems.
Command and Control is one of the fundamental functions of military operations, which is critical to the achievement of mission objectives. C2 integrates with other military functions, including intelligence, manoeuvre, fire power, combat service support, and force protection, thus enabling military capabilities to be used effectively and efficient.
IoT can be used to connect various types of sensing equipment to military C2 to achieve intelligent recognition, positioning, tracking, monitoring, and maintenance.
The paper explores several scenarios as deployable checkpoints, HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief), distributed networks of connected soldiers, threat recognition and patient tracking.
The paper continues to describe several C2 systems that were examined and discusses a number of technologies and solutions relevant to the military scenarios, including functional, security and auxiliary enablers as well as architectural considerations.
Furthermore, the paper discusses the proof of concept that was implemented in order to facilitate experimentation and validation during joint exercises.
The full paper is published in the Procedia Computer Science journal, Volume 205, 2022, and can be accessed online on ScienceDirect. I invite you to look it up and to share your thoughts!
