The Internet of Military Things -Too Much Information?

摘要

The Internet of Things is a "commercial effort to integrate a wide variety of technical and commercial information-gathering components to provide new business opportunities based upon device and systems intelligence," noted a report entitled The Internet of Things for Defence, published by Wind River. What then is the Internet of Military Things (IOMT)? "There is no universal definition," says a spokesperson for the European Defence Agency (EDA), the European Union (EU) organisation coordinating defence collaboration across the EU's member states. That said, the EDA defines it as "a military capability to connect, manage and extract information from a huge number of different military data sources or sensors interconnected by a network infrastructure that could be civil or military but specifically directed and adapted to military applications." Put simply, the sensors equipping platforms, personnel and deployed individually will be able to share information they gather across the battlespace in real time. Not only will they share this data they will also share health and usage information. This could range from an unattended radar warning when its batteries need replacing, to a soldier's heartbeat and temperature revealing when they are approaching exhaustion or suffering hypothermia.