ATAK integration in COREMOTE Tactics
Vo, Nhan (2024)
2024
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024121837075
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024121837075
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This thesis, commissioned by Mentura Group Oy, explored the integration of the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) into the COREMOTE Tactics platform, a comprehensive solution for situational awareness, automatic vehicle location management, fleet management, and dispatching for organizations managing mobile field forces. ATAK was chosen because of its intensive features in critical communication, including real-time positioning, video feed sharing, encrypted data package sharing and messages, its active ecosystem that has been used globally. This study highlighted ATAK’s ability to integrate real-time tracking and detailed mapping within a single platform.
The thesis focused on researching and analyzing existing interfaces of both ATAK and Tactics, so that an ATAK integration in COREMOTE Tactics was implemented, which was a real-time location stream from TAK server. This integration is a new software component of Tactics which enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of tactical operations.
The thesis project employed a detailed evaluation of the TAK and Tactics ecosystem, a possibility of integrating TAK server in COREMOTE Tactics, and the usage of several technologies and tools such as OpenLayers, MapServer, MapCache, FeatureServer, and two servers running within two separate Virtual Machines in a secure local network, with firewall configurations managed via Proxmox. Additionally, two adapters were built, following the Tactics component adapter architecture, leveraging Kafka as the event streaming platform to facilitate the connection of the real-time location stream from TAK server to Tactics. This development project not only provided a new software component but also illustrated on going and significant contribution of Mentura in the tactical operations management field.
The thesis focused on researching and analyzing existing interfaces of both ATAK and Tactics, so that an ATAK integration in COREMOTE Tactics was implemented, which was a real-time location stream from TAK server. This integration is a new software component of Tactics which enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of tactical operations.
The thesis project employed a detailed evaluation of the TAK and Tactics ecosystem, a possibility of integrating TAK server in COREMOTE Tactics, and the usage of several technologies and tools such as OpenLayers, MapServer, MapCache, FeatureServer, and two servers running within two separate Virtual Machines in a secure local network, with firewall configurations managed via Proxmox. Additionally, two adapters were built, following the Tactics component adapter architecture, leveraging Kafka as the event streaming platform to facilitate the connection of the real-time location stream from TAK server to Tactics. This development project not only provided a new software component but also illustrated on going and significant contribution of Mentura in the tactical operations management field.