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24 May 2012 Increasing situational awareness using smartphones
Sanjay K. Boddhu, Robert L. Williams, Edward Wasser, Niranjan Kode
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In recent years, the United States Armed Services and various law enforcement agencies have shown increasing interest in evaluating the feasibility of using smartphones and hand-held devices as part of the standard gear for its personnel, who are actively engaged on battlefield or in crime-prone areas. The primary motive driving analysis efforts to employ smartphone-based technologies is the prospect of the increased "Situational Awareness" achievable thru a digitally connected network of armed personnel. Personnel would be equipped with customized smart applications that use the device's sensors (GPS, camera, compass, etc...) to sense the hostile environments as well as enabling them to perform collaborative tasks to effectively complete a given mission. In this vein, as part of the Summer At The Edge (SATE) program, a group of student interns under the guidance of mentors from Qbase and AFRL, have employed smartphones and built three smart applications to tackle three real-world scenarios: PinPoint, IStream, and Cooperative GPS. This paper provides implementation details for these prototype applications, along with the supporting visualization and sensor cloud platforms and discusses results obtained from field testing of the same. Further, the paper concludes by providing the implications of the present work and insights into future work.
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Sanjay K. Boddhu, Robert L. Williams, Edward Wasser, and Niranjan Kode "Increasing situational awareness using smartphones", Proc. SPIE 8389, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR III, 83891J (24 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920035
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KEYWORDS
Global Positioning System

Clouds

Sensors

Video

Receivers

Cameras

Situational awareness sensors

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