Blue Force Tracking Overview

Blue Force Tracking is critical to the safety of military personnel and first responders. Current military blue force tracking systems are limited to around two hundred nodes. OrderOne Networks takes a different approach.

Every Soldier/First Responder is a Node
Since the OrderOne Networks protocol is not dependent on network size it can be used as a very scalable Blue Force Tracking system. Each node in the network can make its current location and status available to every other node in the network. This creates a distributed Blue Force Tracking application that has several unique attributes.

Very Large Network Sizes
Instead of being limited to approximately 200 nodes, the OrderOne Networks protocol allows the simultaneous tracking of 10,000's of nodes. If several higher capacity, higher bandwidth nodes are added to the network then 100,000's of nodes may be tracked simultaneously.

Fully Distributed
Current Blue Force Tracking applications are limited to displaying the locations of nodes on one central screen. Using the OrderOne Networks Blue Force Tracking there is no such limitation. If allowed, each node in the network may have a view of all other nodes in the network. For example, if twenty nodes are separated from the main network, they will still be able to track their neighbors.

Once they have reconnected with the main network those nodes will be visible to the nodes in the main network, and the nodes in the main network will be visible to them.

The following screenshot is an example of what could be present on a hand-held device carried by every soldier and commander.

OrderOne Networks Blue Force Tracking

OrderOne Networks has developed a 3D OpenGL application that can run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS that will display the location and status of nodes in real time on a 3D map. This is an example of what is possible using the OrderOne Networks routing protocol combined with information sharing.

3D Common Operating Picture

This view may be displayed on every node in the network. Each node is linked to a GPS device to provide its real time location.

Licensing
This software may be licensed and rebranded to fit your application suite. It may be used without the routing component being active. The only demand it will have on your network is a fixed size control packet being broadcast from each node every second.