2018 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference
Research on Design of Military Logistics Support
System based on IoT
Jinglin Wang
Aviation Key Laboratory of Science and Technology
on Fault Diagnosis and Health Management
Shanghai Aero Measurement & Control Technology
Research Institute
Shanghai, China
scenelin@163.com
Yong Shen
Aviation Key Laboratory of Science and Technology
on Fault Diagnosis and Health Management
Shanghai Aero Measurement & Control Technology
Research Institute
Shanghai, China
nustshy@sina.com
Abstract—In information war, military becomes more
dependent on military logistical support system. However,
currently in the range of military operations, logistics still have
many problems, so this paper analyzes the existent problems of
military logistics, networking and technology. IOT (Internet of
Things) is used in the realization of intelligent logistics system.
This paper presents the design of Military Logistics system based
on IOT, and the system framework based on the IOT of military
logistics system is presented. Furthermore, the design and
implementation of the military fuel management system is also
based on IOT.
Keywords-IoT; Military logistics support; system design
I. INTRODUCTION
In the war in Iraq, the US military adopted a similar way of
intelligent operation of the logistics, opening the modern
logistics theory to guide the military logistics practice prelude.
At present, military experts generally believe that intelligent
logistics is the future of war’s logistics reform and exhibition
direction, which requires that the traditional transformation
relies on a large number of traditional stock supply models. So
it is necessary to use advanced information technology to
establish an intelligent system with all the materials and their
needs. The system with advanced information technology can
effectively reduce the logistical response time and improve the
speed and accuracy of the contingency of the troops.
Under the condition that information war has much more
reliance on logistics, the paper presents "military forces, first".
However, in all kinds of military action, logistics also has many
problems. For example, logistics calculation and error of
judgment may lead to lack of preparation before the war, goods
lost in transit, and the delay phenomena have occurred, which
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Liang Cao
Aviation Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on
Fault Diagnosis and Health Management
Shanghai Aero Measurement & Control Technology
Research Institute
Shanghai, China
hdcaoliang@163.com
Guo Zheng
Aviation Key Laboratory of Science and Technology
on Fault Diagnosis and Health Management
Shanghai Aero Measurement & Control Technology
Research Institute
Shanghai, China
149356820@qq.com
have seriously affected the major military action process, not to
mention the security of future operations. Therefore, to realize
the logistics" from his factory "throughout the video, we must
be further strengthened in the information technology research
and development, and new products with new technology can
promote the overall breakthrough in the logistics field.
The application of IOT is the military logistics management
"tailored" perfect technology, and they can make up for the
lack of logistics management field, and achieve a sensitive,
dynamic and adaptive logistics intelligent management. The
so-called logistics intelligence refers to the network as the
center, emphasizing logistics, combat and intelligence
integration, with information network strong information
acquisition and processing capabilities, forecasting and
foreseeing logistics needs; and relying on a series of flexible
and diverse, automatic coordination of functional processes. the
formation of all aspects of intelligent logistics network.
II. SYSTEM STRUCTURE
A. IoT Technology
IOT is a new generation of information technology which
is an important part of the "information" era of the important
stage of development. As the name suggests, IOT is the object
connected to the Internet. It has two meanings: First, the core
and foundation of IOT is still the Internet which is the
extension and expansion of the Internet on the basis of the
network; second, its client extends and extended to any items,
and the exchange of information and communication connects
things together. IOT use the intelligent perception,
identification technology and pervasive computing to realize
communication awareness technology, and it is widely used in
the integration of the network. Therefore, it is known as the
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computer after the world's third wave of information industry
development .
From the view of technical, IOT refers to the intelligent
network using the intelligent sensor and the transmission
network to reach the designated information processing center,
and finally realize the intelligent information exchange and
processing between objects. The IOT refers to all the world's
objects which are connected as a formation network of "IOT";
and then "IOT" and the existing Internet will achieve
integration of human society and physical systems. By the
same time, IOT achieves a more sophisticated and dynamic
way to manage production and life.
B. The core technology of the IOT and the typical tier
architecture
The related research on the IOT at home and abroad shows
that the IOT has three important features[5]: First, through a
variety of telecommunication networks and the IOT, the object
information can be passed out really and accurately; Second,
the use of radio frequency identification, dimensional bar code
and other technology can obtain information on the object at
anytime and anywhere in order to achieve a comprehensive
perception of the object; Third, the use of cloud computing,
pattern recognition and other intelligent computing technology,
massive information and data analysis and processing will
achieve the object Intelligent control. Around these
characteristics, through the physical analysis of the IOT and its
technology, found that the realization of things is the need for
information collection, transmission, processing and other
technologies of mutual integration. Specifically, it includes
radio frequency identification technology, sensing technology,
wireless network technology, intelligent technology.
The typical architecture of the IOT includes the perception
layer, the network layer and the application layer. Among them,
the perception of the main object can achieve the information
collection, capture and identification. The key technologies of
the sensing layer include sensors, RFID, WiFi and other sensor
networks. Network layer is the IOT, the main information
transmission, including a variety of access networks, the
existing Internet communications network and servers.
Network layer access to a variety of ways, and access network
has 3g/4g, wireless networks and limited networks. The
application layer is to deal with the information obtained by the
sensing layer, realizing the practical application of intelligent
identification, positioning, tracking, monitoring and
management. It is the interface between the IOT and the user. It
is combined with the industry demand to realize Intelligent
application on IOT.
C. Intelligent logistical support
Logistics Support (LS) usually refers to the general
organization of the implementation of material supply, medical
care, equipment maintenance, transportation and other
professional services for the general term. The progress of
science, technology and the development of modern industry
has also been improved by the scientific research and
production capacity of weapons and equipment, and the
emergence of various advanced technology weapons, brought
about the expansion of the war. The battlefield is huge. The
material consumption is huge, and equipment damage and
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casualty rate improve the characteristics. These characteristics
require logistical support from the traditional passive recharge
to the intelligent logistical support system. Intelligent logistics
and traditional logistical support of the fundamental difference
is that the traditional logistics rely on troops to implement the
material reserves step by step, through subordinate applications
and higher administrative orders to passively the
implementation of security forces; and intelligent logistics is
the logistics workers in the protection of real resources. On the
basis of visualization, the exact forecast of the combatant's
material demand replaces the pre-war plan or the application in
the war.
In order to achieve intelligent logistical support, the need to
achieve real-time demand and real-time resources can be seen.
Real-time demand and real-time resources can be viewed from
the essence of information flow to drive logistics, in order to
achieve right amount, high quality guarantee of efficiency
timely and appropriately, to achieve real-time protection,
precision and economy. This requires the usage of information
technology to achieve logistical resources and their needs of
real-time visual. We can see, on the one hand, the use of bar
code, radio frequency tags, databases and relying on the
communication network, a variety of security resources can
collect information. Storage and transmission, and real-time
monitoring changes is observed in order to achieve a variety of
security resources, the number, status, type, location and means
of transport of the overall visual. On the other hand, the use of
information technology and means of communication, logistics
information platform and force combat information platform
into one, the logistics command center and all kinds of sensors,
detection devices together, so that the commanders of the army
at any time to grasp the combat situation and battlefield
situation, and through the logistics support needs of the expert
system to obtain troops of the protection needs, in order to
achieve the protection process, it needs to know.
III. SYSTEM DESIGN
A. System Network Architecture Design
As shown in Figure 1, the architecture of the military
logistical system based on the IOT uses a four-tier network
architecture, which includes the sensing layer, the transport
layer, the processing layer and the application layer.
In the perceptual layer, an object embedded with a sensing
device and a radio frequency tag (RFID) forms a local network,
and cooperatively senses the surrounding environment or its
own state and performs initial processing and judgment on the
acquired perceptual information, according to the
corresponding rule; The access network accesses the
intermediate or final processing results to the transport layer.

Figure 1. Network Architecture of the System
The transport layer includes a broadband wireless network,
a fiber-optic network, a cellular network and various private
networks, and transmits a large amount of perceptual
information while collapsing the transmitted information.
In the processing layer, it provides information storage and
processing functions and the performance of various data
centers in the form of middleware. The use of data mining,
pattern recognition and artificial intelligence technology can
provide data analysis, situation judgment and control decision
processing functions, and intelligent management of logistics.
In the application layer to establish specific applications in
different areas, such as oil supply, combat readiness warehouse
management, personnel casualty management in battle field.
B. System Structure Design
As shown in Figure 2, it is the operational command
platform. The command center platform includes information
processing, weapons control, command and control, logistics
command platform. The platform through the local area
network will carry out different tasks of the server to form a
whole unit, achieve information interaction, share and
command scheduling. And the central host of the logistics
command platform sends the configuration information and
control information to the remote terminal unit, and receives
the data and alarm information reported by the lower computer.
At the same time, it effectively manages and collects the
information about the logistics supporting resources and the
demand information, Statistics, statements and other functions.

Figure 2. Structure Diagram of Battle Command Platform
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IV. SYSTEM IMPLEMENTION
A. Sensing the Deployment of Components
Effective management and design of the relevant sensing
devices relates to logistics management, which can meet the
management mechanism of the equipment in different states.
For example, the personal wear sensor can be achieved for its
usual safety in a wartime injury management; sensors
embedded in weapons and equipment can achieve its location,
operating status and other information management; key
installment sensor on the oil depot, can monitor the oil storage,
out of warehousing, security and other management; the
installation of GPS transport vehicles positioning device can be
used to manage the vehicle's busy state, location and so on.
B. System Working Process
Military logistics system is based on "logistics management
center" as the center, to achieve automatic coordination of
various departments, the logistics of scientific and intelligent.
The following oil management is made as an example to
illustrate the process of military logistics system, as shown in
Figure 3.
1) Logistics Management Center:
It is made of the relevant information, real-time monitoring
theater oil depot, warfare oil depot, transport vehicles and other
state information, if a situation occurs, the command center
will take appropriate measures based on certain strategies
automatically. For example, when a theater depot is below the
minimum alert value, the logistics management center will
send instructions from the nearest combat oil depot to the target
theater oil depot through a GPS positioning system and transfer
the message to the nearest transport vehicle from the target
depot. Here, the search for the nearest free vehicle, the recent
warfare oil depot and other algorithms, is the focus and
difficulty of the study.
2) Combat plan:
According to the material requirements of the combat plan,
viewing the oil storage of the theater oil depot, and updating
the information of the theater oil depot in time based on the
dynamic consumption of the weapon equipment.
3) Theater reserve oil depot:
It meets the consumption of weapons and equipment
supply, changes information timely, and real-time transmission
of data to the logistics command center.
4) War read oil depots:
It transfers storage status data that replenishment of the lack
of theater oil depots to the data center at any time, according to
the logistics management center instructions,.
5) Third party suppliers:
From time to time, send data to center storage state data,
according to the instruction of logistics management center, the
lack of timely supplement each combat readiness terminal.

Figure 3. The Process of Military Logistics Support System Oil Management
V. CONCLUSION
The IOT in the military application is still in its infancy,
standards, technology, mode of operation and supporting
mechanisms are still far from mature.
The first problem is standardization. IOT is a national
project and even world-class engineering, needs to standardize
database, standardization of software and hardware, data
interface, the connectivity of the network platform, unified
object identification and coding system, etc. To make each
object access networks, identified, master and control. How
unity all kinds of protocol standard is a very slow process,
which is one of the key factors of the development of the IOT.
The second problem information security. In the future of
IOT, the equipment will be connected to the network anytime,
anywhere and timely perception, in this environment, how to
ensure information security, and prevent military information
from being stolen, will be in the field of things in the military
advance. Break through one of the major obstacles. Internet
access in many occasions need wireless transmission, and
breaking any wireless system is a breeze. As an important
platform for intelligent interconnection of military elements
around the world, once it is destroyed, it will be a fatal blow to
the military as a matter of life, which will not only affect the
operation of the IOT itself, but also will endanger the national
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security, and even lead a chain reaction to the emergence of
worldwide system of paralysis, and make the army into a
chaos.
The last problem is capital and cost issues. IOT is widely
used in the field of military. Firstly, you must embed electronic
tag on the relevant equipment such as memory, read, a variety
of equipment and the huge information processing system, this
will lead to a large number of military spending. If we use IOT,
the cost has been greatly reduced, and the interests of all parts
of mechanism and operation mode has not been formed under
the background of the development of the IOT, and it has also
been a certain limit.
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