Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Tactical ISR (T-ISR) Training

This 4-day Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Tactical ISR (T-ISR) Training course provides an introduction, overview, and means to assess Tactical ISR (T-ISR) mission objectives, and responsive wireless sensor networks, and provides details associated with each subsystem associated with a WSN sensor node (mote). Material presented by this Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Solutions for Tactical ISR (T-ISR) Training course directly correlates to design issues and system solutions associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Elements of WSN node subsystems are reviewed, including key performance evaluation and implementation details. Low-power, low-cost sensor modalities are presented with the development of characteristic performance equations. Signal processing, sampling, and analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) approaches are presented and compared.

Wireless networking design is reviewed from the perspective of physical (PHY) and media access control (MAC) perspectives. Network formation and maintenance (e.g., self-healing) is described and includes concepts that address the Jain Fairness Index and routing algorithms (DSDV, OLSR, WRP, CCS/LCC protocols). Applicability and comparison to MANET-based systems are provided. Attributes associated with real-time operating systems (RTOS), WSN middleware applications and services, and overarching net management system control (NMS) are presented. The problem of localization of sensor nodes is presented, along with WSN communication security schemes.

Approaches to power management, to enable persistent ISR operations, are described and implementations are presented. This Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Solutions for Tactical ISR (T-ISR) course is of significant value to those working on WSN design and implementation, remote sensing, and solving tactical ISR (T-ISR) mission requirements. Experience and technical backgrounds best suited include engineers, computer & physical scientists, and system decision-makers that work with WSN-based system solutions. Detailed derivations are provided via the distributed course notes, as well as examples of computer-based tools used to evaluate design performance. Key performance issues and design implementations are provided by distributed Python code.

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1. Overview of ISR – ISR sensor systems and issues experienced, and the emergence of WSN as a viable solution.
2. Tactical ISR (T-ISR) – definitions, mission objectives, operational considerations, and top-level requirements.
3. T-ISR System – functions and design implementations presented.
4. WSN and node (mote) hardware – subsystem descriptions and performance equations associated with appropriate microcontrollers, mote sensor signal processing, sampling, ADCs, and available ISM RF bands. WSN resource constraints are identified and presented. Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Tactical ISR (T-ISR) Training
5. WSN software – RTOS overview, mote middleware applications
6. WSN applicability– to T-ISR missions, as WSN-only or as part of a tiered sensor system.
7. Ad hoc networking technology – overview and application to WSN and MANET-based systems
8. Key performance parameters (KPPs) – definition and derivation approach to determining KPPs for T-ISR systems based on WSN technologies.
9. WSN RF Communications – overview of packet-switched networking and WSN-specific RF communication issues and design considerations.
10. Communication architecture– overview of worldwide sensor networks (e.g., DoDIN)
11. Exfiltration relays – description of wireless linkage interface between WSN mote field and external operation centers (MoC).
12. Sensor node localization – localization techniques beyond employing GPS solutions (and GPS solutions).
13. Power management – approaches to meeting persistent sensing requirements.
14. Passive optical sensor modality – design considerations and equations associated with passive optical sensor design, including infrared (IR) and visible (VIS), including use of MTF, sub-pixel sampling, dither focal planes
15. Active optical sensor modality – design considerations and equations associated with active (laser radar) optical sensor design, including direct detection and continuous (coherent) systems and dealing with issues such as speckle and glint.
16. Ultra Wideband (UWB) overview – UWB designs and hardware for WSN-based ISR systems.
17. Seismic/Acoustic sensor modality – seismic and acoustic sensor design and realization, including example implementations, that operate within the restrictions of a WSN sensor node.
18. Magnetometer sensing modality – design considerations and equations associated with the use of low-cost magnetometers (chipsets).
19. Aligning WSN capability to SIGINT objectives – adopting a WSN approach to gaining access to the ambient signal environment for use as a SIGINT capability.
20. T-ISR system deployment approaches – designs for the dispersion of WSN nodes in setting up and deploying a T-ISR system.
21. System-level testing and operations – approaches to providing operation evaluation for deployed WSN-based T-ISR systems.
22. Case studies – DARPA NEST & ANSCD programs, DHS CBP (Customs & Border Patrol) border monitoring, HVT TTL (tagging, tracking, & locating) with Laser Vibrometry.

Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Tactical ISR (T-ISR) Training Course Wrap-Up