Internet of Things for Military Applications

The main purpose of IoT technology is to connect the real world to the virtual world with anytime-anywhere connectivity. IoT is trying to generate a world of living beings along with physical objects together with virtual data and the environment. So that everything can interact with each other. An immense number of devices are used and thus an ample amount of data is generated on an everyday basis. Further, IoT is sending this generated data to the designated place without hampering the security constraints. In this paper, the applications of IoT technology in defense are the key concern. Further, we will discuss the use of IoT in Object tracking, health care monitoring, underwater & underground monitoring, drone-based monitoring, digital forensic environment, etc, as a defense perspective. Further, we will discuss how can we use edge devices and edge technology for the collection of data in the military domain and how can we use those collected data to make our defense system more secure and robust.