The importance of the Internet of Things in the military sector

Many smart things have been manufactured in recent years, including weapons that have contributed to changing the traditional military landscape. On the other hand, other sources of information, such as open sources, have become one of the important pillars of the decision-making process as they constitute one of the foundations of military intelligence work, due to their use by extremist networks in various parts of the world. Therefore, if we can deal with them all together with the required efficiency, in addition to the many other sources that can provide a huge amount of information, by analyzing them in a deeper and broader way and extracting patterns, indicators, clues and predictions to work more accurately and effectively in confronting terrorists. Note that the process of analyzing #bigdata is not considered easy, as there are many challenges related to the volume, speed, and diversity of this #data .

Specialists are also working to provide military clothing during military operations with sensors connected to the Internet and capable of detecting any negative vital indicators of the soldier fighting in the field, so that these #electronic_sensors are linked to the central computer in the main operations center. They are worn during battle or during special operations, and they determine the location of The soldier is monitored every minute, in addition to his health condition and sending warning messages to the medical unit located in the company to which this soldier belongs in the event that he is exposed to an emergency health situation. These messages contain important information about his condition that helps the medical unit diagnose the condition before the crisis escalates, such as an increase in heart rate, or a rise/fall in pressure or sugar, or that he has a fluid deficiency and needs food, water, or other fluids before dehydration occurs. the body.

A #smart_weapon is a weapon that uses advanced technologies, including proximity sensors, measuring firing rates, the rate of possibility of hitting the target, measures of biological activity, measures of weather conditions, the ability to identify radio waves, microscopic techniques, and many other capabilities that work to improve the level of hitting the target and the level of safety during the use of the firearm, which is related to On the military Internet, all this information is sent to operations centers. The Canadian Military Research Agency, in cooperation with the Canadian branch of Colt, presented a project for a smart submachine gun, the design of which began in 2009 as part of the production of a smart system of modern weapons. One of the most important features of the new Canadian machine gun is the possibility of using so-called smart electronics, which are electronic optical sighting devices and target position transmitters that can send information about the enemy to other individuals and to the command. According to the sprayer’s designers, it is “suitable for use in city, mountain, jungle, desert and arctic conditions.”

Modern command and control systems rely on computers to tabulate, classify, and display the huge amount of data produced by the various sensors in the armed forces’ devices and mechanisms, so that decisions can be made based on rapid changes in the combat situation. The latest of these systems are called “command, control, communications, computer and intelligence” systems.

The new concept of these systems relies on a number of networks to connect command centers to each other, for the purpose of receiving and processing reconnaissance information from various sources, as well as determining the entity that benefits from this information. This depends on the implementation of communications through advanced computer networks, secured information network circuits, and encrypted communication lines. These networks are characterized by a high level of resistance to electronic countermeasures, especially modern viruses that destroy computer networks. The aforementioned networks are linked together to become one network, characterized by its ability to absorb and exchange a huge amount of information.

It is the #Internet of Things-IoT that leads to a radical change in #military_information systems.