Tactical edge

Tactical edge refers to edge computing environments that support military operations. Such situations are characterized by limited connectivity, high mobility, and the most intense security requirements.

At the tactical edge, the most common needs include deploying, managing, and securing the following technologies:

• IoT: Cameras and sensors of every description get cheaper every day. The number of data-gathering devices is growing just as quickly on the battlefield as it is back home. These devices need to either facilitate immediate/local decision-making or move the data they collect to an aggregation point where those things can be done.

  Compared to prior decades, when such things would have been done using proprietary protocols and architectures specific to each system, nowadays, the same IoT protocols used in the civilian world are used at the tactical edge.

  For example, consider a UAV that drops thousands of LoRaWAN-capable vibration sensors over several...