Detection, identification and tracking of mobile objects with distributed system of systems

Tracking and identification of mobile objects is a challenging task, which is made even more challenging if the task is executed in a distributed manner by a System of Systems (SoS). However, the distributed SoS solution has many advantages when compared to centralized approaches. The computational load can be distributed, the fidelity of the tracking and identification results is potentially increased with the increased number of sensing points and there is a potential to decrease communication loads when compared to centralized approaches that use multiple sensing points. The paper presents a distributed tracking and identification approach where both the computation and sensing are distributed among network nodes using a SoS approach. The results show that such an approach is feasible and the accuracy is satisfactory.