Abstract

Today's age of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in urban areas revolves around the application of the Internet of Things (IoT) and application of IoT in smart city constructs. IoT has enabled cheap but reliable ubiquitous computing for modern day ICT needs. As a result, the military community is actively looking into application of IoT for its operational needs. Federation and interoperability become complex for IoT implementation in the huge jungle of protocols and technologies available for IoT. This problem becomes critical in humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery operations where multiple agencies need to collaborate to bring quick and effective relief to disaster struck areas. Message Query Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is such an IoT-based protocol that is widely adopted in the industry for lightweight but reliable messaging. This article tries to provide insight into federation based on MQTT with a prototype implementation between military and civilian ICT systems. This federation concept would enable lightweight, vendor-agnostic, and interoperable message exchange while using existing information sources and preventing stove-piped systems.

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