An Online Interactive Whiteboard for Military Applications: a conceptual design

Abstract

An Interactive Whiteboard (Virtual Whiteboard) may refer to a device or a computer program providing interactive displays. This interactive whiteboard along with online system can provide efficient interactive long-distance conferencing, training, or educating systems. These systems have been extensively used in classrooms and meeting rooms. In fact, the use of online interactive whiteboard can be applied for the military as a distributed mission planning system. An information can be shared locally through LAN or globally through the Internet. This concept is relatively challenged due to the limitations of military networks in terms of security, frequency, bandwidth, and computational power of the equipment. This paper introduces a novel online interactive whiteboard design framework that specifically aim at the military application.