The Internet of Military Things: Concept, Functional Purpose, Structure, Related Regulatory Developments

Igor Ponkin

Abstract


The article is devoted to the study of the role and significance of the concept and technologies of the Internet of Military Things in the competition of military capabilities of the world's leading powers. The article emphasizes that the concept of the Internet of Things as a whole, in principle, originated in the defense community, emerged due to the defense industry's work on sensor networks and low-power computing platforms. The author explains the concept of the Internet of Things, noting the quite expected and logical transition of civilian Internet of Things technologies into military applications. The author briefly shows the importance of the Internet of Military Things given to it in military strategic planning and management documents of a number of foreign countries. The article reviews the explanations of the essence of the Internet of Military Things presented in the scientific literature. The article presents a detailed author's concept of explaining the concept of the Internet of Military Things and its structure. The article discusses the current and potential applications of IoT technologies in the military sphere. The author provides some data on the scale of the market of IoT devices and systems. The author shows two significant features of the application of the Internet of Military Things - 1) the pronounced hostile and harsh nature of the battlefield environment and 2) critical resource issues related to power supply, communications and centralized cloud computing architectures. The paper identifies key future directions for improving the systems and components of the Internet of Military Things. The conclusions are drawn that there is no open normative legal regulation of the Internet of Military Things directly; direct regulation of the Internet of Military Things is reduced to regulation by secret acts of state administration.


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