PLA vehicle dynamic monitoring system launched

The reporters saw at a troop unit under the Beijing Garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on the afternoon of August 2, 2012 that the staff on duty was using the "military vehicle dynamic monitoring system" to conduct real-time monitoring on those vehicles out on duties. The information of the running vehicles and drivers, the vehicle locations, operation status and so on were immediately shown on the monitoring platform.

A leader of the Military Transportation Department under the PLA General Logistics Department (GLD) noted that this marked the beginning of the pilot construction of the PLA vehicle dynamic monitoring system, while all the vehicles of the PLA will be gradually included into the dynamic monitoring system.

The development of the system is designed to realize effective tracking, monitoring and control of military vehicles on transportation duty and to meet the demands of logistics support under the information-based conditions. The system relies mainly on the Beidou Satellite Navigation System as well as the technologies of mobile communication and wireless data collection to establish a 4-level monitoring platform for the general headquarters/departments, leading organs of various military area commands (services and arms), leading organs of troop units, and vehicle pools of detachments. Meanwhile, the vehicle-mounted Beidou terminals have been installed on military vehicles so that an all-weather, all-terrain and full-process vehicle dynamic monitoring network system has been established.