Silvus Technologies正在推出其StreamScape图形用户界面（GUI）的新型移动变体，专门设计用于美国武装部队的安卓团队感知套件（ATAK）。
StreamScape GUI是该公司的旗舰网络管理软件，嵌入其移动自组织网络（MANET）战术无线电系列中。通过笔记本电脑操作，StreamScape GUI可以从一个终端设备管理数百个单独的MANET节点。该公司高级产品经理莫斯塔法·易卜拉欣表示，对于下车作战的人员来说，尝试在智能手机或平板电脑上使用该界面是一个痛点。通过网页浏览器输入IP地址并调出StreamScape的体验并不直观。
此外，缩放问题也是一个技术障碍，例如专为笔记本电脑设计的文本框在移动设备上会占据整个页面。因此，Silvus针对移动用途重新建模了StreamScape GUI，最终成熟为ATAK插件版本。选择与ATAK集成是为了将界面放入大多数军事人员（至少是美国军方）熟悉的平台中，从而提高作战效率和网络管理的便捷性。
A rendering of Silvus Technologies' Streamscape Android Tactical Awareness Kit (ATAK) software plugin. (Silvus Technologies )
Silvus Technologies is rolling out a new, mobile variant of its StreamScape graphical user interface (GUI), specifically designed for use on the US armed forces' Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK).
“We have our StreamScape GUI, and it's kind of evolved over the years,”, said Silvus Technologies' Senior Product Manager Mostafa Ibrahim.
The StreamScape GUI is the company's flagship network management software, embedded into its family of mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) tactical radios. Operated from a laptop, the StreamScape GUI can manage hundreds of individual MANET nodes from one end user device.
“A pain point we had, particularly for dismounted users, is trying to use [the GUI on] your smartphone or your tablet,” Ibrahim told
Janes
during a 9 May interview. “Pulling up the web browser, putting in the IP address and pulling up StreamScape, wasn't necessarily the most intuitive experience”, he explained.
Scaling issues, such as the text box designed for the laptop-based GUI “taking up the whole page” on a mobile device, were also an example of several technology hurdles programme officials were facing to adapt StreamScape for mobile end users.
As a result, Silvus remodelled the StreamScape GUI for mobile use, with the effort eventually maturing into the ATAK plugin variant of the GUI. “We picked up the idea of kind of integrating with ATAK as a way to put the [GUI] into something that, you know, the majority of the military world, at least those in the US, are familiar with,” Ibrahim said.
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