Mission-oriented large-scale environment sensing based on analogy of military system

Abstract

As typically seen in Smart City, emerging technologies enable large-scale environment sensing using IoT devices deployed in a wide area. From the viewpoint of cost and efficiency, infrastructure of the large-scale environment sensing should be shared by multiple applications, with dynamically adapting the sensing behavior for different purposes. To achieve this, the infrastructure must implement a clever method that can command and control a lot of IoT devices in good order. To implement such multi-purpose large-scale environment sensing, we introduce an analogy of military system. Specifically, we propose a mission-oriented sensing with army hierarchy, where individual IoT devices and their dynamic purposes are regarded as soldiers and missions, respectively.