Situational Awareness – Platoon: Providing complete Common Tactical Picture to Platoon Commanders & Troop leaders
Situational Awareness – Platoon is a module of Rolta BMS Platoon, designed and developed for Platoon Commanders and Troop leaders. It is specifically built to meet the needs of Platoon Commanders by providing them near real time situational awareness and a comprehensive ‘Common Tactical Picture’.
Situational Awareness Platoon is designed & developed for Platoon Commanders and Troop leaders. It is specifically built to meet the needs of Platoon Commanders in the Indian Army’s combat echelons providing them near real time situational awareness and a comprehensive ‘Common Tactical Picture’. The product facilitates, simplifies and automates the exchange of C2 information and data.
Key Points
- Blue Force Tracking (BFT) provides a common picture of the location of friendly forces
- Exchange of BFT information across hierarchies and affiliations through auto replication mechanism
- Computation of location of entities by alternate means with comparable accuracies in case GPS services are disrupted
- Integration of sensors such as HHTIs, TIIOEs,NVDs on platforms etc.
- Sensor Integration interface to display live video streaming, enables recording and saving of videos and capture snapshots
- Display – enemy direction on top of Force Symbol
- Tactical and Terrain Symbology to mark on the map to represent SA
- Facility to invoke Enemy/NBC alert by Force
- Tactical Messaging (Text & Graphical) with Predefined message templates
- Facility to assign a user pre-fed danger area to each type of threat
- Alerts for vehicles approaching location of a reported threat before reaching any diversion short of the threat
- Automatic inclusion of all observed enemy activities/ threats in the situation reports
- Alerts to all entities regarding major Terrain changes having major operational implications in terms of threat (e.g. Bridge marked on map that has been destroyed)
- Ability to plot a target laser-ed by a connected device like HHTI onto map
- Facility to mark threats such as IEDs, Mines, booby traps etc using appropriate symbols
- Marking of observed enemy activity using appropriate symbols and attributes, display them at their accurate geo-locations
Benefits
- Up-to-date & accurate SA and CTP
- Better understanding of the situation and coordination within the units
- Reduced Work flow time
- Reduced decision action cycle within a Battalion Group/Combat Group facilitating faster reaction capability
- Enables essential operational situational awareness and decision support functions at a Platoon level
- Enhances information handling ability of commanders at all levels within a Battalion Group/Combat Group
- Facilitates effective methods to avoid fratricide
