PARTICLE developed a suite of Situations Awareness solutions for private and governmental applications. The solutions are fit for mobile units operating in security and emergency situations. The solution supports mobile devices, wearables (for monitoring activity and health status of professionals) and blue force tracking for enhanced communications and information exchange.
PARTICLE solutions can operate over cellular communications (e.g., 4G with secure end-to-end communications) benefiting from existing broadband technologies. Alternatively, when existing infrastructures are damaged, not accessible or cannot be trusted, private communication ad-hoc networks can be used (provided by low-power, light and portable devices, supporting up to 2 km) .
Military Applications
PARTICLE platform is being demonstrated as part of the NATO group IST-150 (NATO Core Services profiling for Hybrid Tactical Networks), targeting security and defence applications.
Publications:
- Manso, Marco; Guerra, Barbara; Freire, Fernando; Jansen, Norman; Chan, Kevin; Toth, Andrew; Bloebaum, Trude Hafsøe & Johnsen, Frank T. (2019). Mobile Tactical Forces: Experiments on Multi-broker Messaging Middleware in a Coalition Setting. International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS) proceedings. ISSN 2577-1604.
- Marco Manso, Norman Jansen, Trude H. Bloebaum and Frank T. Johnsen, Kevin Chan and Andrew Toth. Mobile Tactical Force Situational Awareness: Evaluation of Message Broker Middleware for Information Exchange. 23rd ICCRTS: “Multi-Domain C2”, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A. November 6-9, 2018
- Marco Manso, Frank Johnsen, Ketil Lund and Kevin Chan. Using MQTT to Support Mobile Tactical Force Situational Awareness. International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS), Warsaw, Poland 22-23 May 2018. (DOI: 10.1109/ICMCIS.2018.8398732)
- Manso M., Johnsen, Frank T., Brannsten, M. A Smart Devices Concept for Future Soldier Systems. ICCRTS 2017, Los Angeles, USA, November 6-8, 2017.
