title: A Review on Internet of Things for Defense and Public Safety.
abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably transforming the way that organizations communicate and organize everyday businesses and industrial procedures. Its adoption has proven well suited for sectors that manage a large number of assets and coordinate complex and distributed processes. This survey analyzes the great potential for applying IoT technologies (i.e., data-driven applications or embedded automation and intelligent adaptive systems) to revolutionize modern warfare and provide beneﬁts similar to those in industry. It identiﬁes scenarios where Defense and Public Safety (PS) could leverage better commercial IoT capabilities to deliver greater survivability to the warﬁghter or ﬁrst responders, while reducing costs and increasing operation efﬁciency and effectiveness. This article reviews the main tactical requirements and the architecture, examining gaps and shortcomings in existing IoT systems across the military ﬁeld and mission-critical scenarios. The review characterizes the open challenges for a broad deployment and presents a research roadmap for enabling an affordable IoT for defense and PS.
authors: Department Electronics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 15071, Spain. paula.fraga@udc.es.
authors: Paula
authors: P
authors: Fraga-Lamas
authors: Department Electronics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 15071, Spain.
authors: Tiago M
authors: TM
authors: Fernández-Caramés
authors: Department Electronics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 15071, Spain.
authors: Manuel
authors: M
authors: Suárez-Albela
authors: Department Electronics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 15071, Spain. luis.castedo@udc.es.
authors: Luis
authors: L
authors: Castedo
authors: Department Electronics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 15071, Spain.
authors: Miguel
authors: M
authors: González-López
mesh_terms: D002959:Civil Defense; D000067917:Cloud Computing; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology
keywords: Internet of Things; Machine-to-Machine communications; cloud computing; defense and public safety; heterogeneous networks; mission-critical networks; public safety responders; security; tactical environment; trust management; wireless sensor networks