Centre for Defence Enterprise webinar on 18 December 2013. Featuring presentations from Dstl Programme Managers for integrated sensing, assured information infrastructure, C2I2, and dismounted soldier systems.
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38. MOD requires a means of transferring
high volumes of time-synced data
while minimising power consumption
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39. • Background:
– MOD are developing a Generic Soldier Architecture (GSA)
DefStan 23-12 to help the system integration and
interoperability of the soldier
– Running a Technology Development Programme (TDP)
looking at moving power and data around the torso of the
soldier, minimising resupply demand, physical and
architectural burdens
– Developing a demonstrator of power and data on the weapon
– Investigating the data needs of helmet mounted technologies
– „Green Ethernet‟ and IEEE 802.3az standards exist
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40. What have we learnt:
– Currently define USB 2.0 in GSA
• Good – Low Power
• Bad – Timing Synchronisation, data rates
in USB 2
– Ethernet
• Good – Timing Synchronisation, data
rate with 1Gb Ethernet
Battery mass to support data network (kg)
•
Additional battery mass required to support data
transmission (6 nodes)
• Bad – Power
•
8
USB2 (100%
Transmit)
7
6
USB2 (50%
Transmit)
5
USB2 (20%
Transmit)
4
3
1Gb Ethernet
(100%
Transmit)
1Gb ethernet
(50% Transmit)
2
1
0
0
10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Mission Duration (hr)
What we want:
– 1GBaseT (1 Gb/s) Ethernet at as lower power as possible for a 6 node system
with 1 m lengths
– OR a method of solving synchronisation and latency issues with USB
– To include Integration/development of low power and bulk USB-to-Ethernet and
Ethernet-to-USB adaptors
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41. MOD wants to capture visual and
directional information, unobtrusively,
from soldiers on training exercises
19/12/2013
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42. • Background
– Two types of effect are required from shots fired by infantry
weapons, the majority do not hit the enemy
– Use laser simulation system in training which records HIT and
NEAR MISS shots. The remaining shots (the majority) are of
significant interest:
• Fired at visible target but missed
• Fired to suppress a known target that was not visible
• Fired without an identified target
– Could resolve these if it was known what the soldier was
looking at, and supplemented by knowing the direction
(azimuth) the weapon was pointing
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43. • What have we learnt:
– Need to be a attachable/removable self contained training
device
– Size and weight are significant factors
– Challenging environment (weapon fire, weather etc)
• What we want:
– Record the optical sight picture during periods of use, and
identify when shots are fired.
– Records the azimuth of the weapon at the time of firing.
– Ability to time sync
– Potential to be transparent to the user
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