A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineering faculty has received nearly $4 million in research funding as part of a major Army Research Laboratory-funded initiative to develop an internet of things tailored to the specific challenges of the battlefield.

The team members –Suhas Diggavi, Mani Srivastava and Paulo Tabuada – specialize in cyber-physical systems, the technology that underpins how all the “things” are connected, how they work with each other, and the physical environment that they are embedded in.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will lead a programme funded by the Army Research Lab (ARL) and work on bringing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to the US Army. This project is estimated to be worth $25m (£18.85m) and will involve six universities and a California-based independent research centre for a duration of five years.

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Amazon Echo, Google Home and other Internet of Things devices have given tech-savvy homeowners the ability to automate tasks with the touch of a button or wave of a hand.

Now, as part of a new $25 million initiative funded by the Army Research Lab, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will lead an initiative with six schools and a research center to bring similar capabilities to the battlefield.

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On the battlefields of tomorrow, humans and technology will work together in a seamless, cohesive network, giving soldiers a competitive edge and keeping troops and civilians out of harm’s way.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been selected to participate in an initiative to develop the scientific foundations of a next-generation Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT), designed to enable new predictive battlefield analytics and services. USC Viterbi will receive $4.5 million of the $25-million project, led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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TV coverage of IoBT.

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A team of computer science researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a four-institution consortium that has been awarded $25 million by the Army Research Labs with $4.5 million slated to go to UMass. The grant will be used to develop the scientific foundations of a next-generation Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) that is intended to enable new, predictive battlefield analytics and services.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected to lead a $25 million initiative to develop the scientific foundations of a next-generation Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT), designed to enable new predictive battlefield analytics and services. The “Alliance for IoBT Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-driven Networks (IoBT REIGN),” funded by the Army Research Lab, includes collaborators from ARL, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Massachusetts, University of Southern California, and SRI International. The funding covers the first five years of a potential 10-year effort.

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Original announcement of the IoBT CRA:

ADELPHI, Md. (Oct. 4, 2017) – The U.S. Army Research Laboratory recently announced the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pennsylvania as lead research organizations for two enterprise research programs that will address challenges the military faces in internet-connected, robot-rich congested and contested battlefields.

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