nID-based Internet of Things and its application in airport aviation risk management

Internet of Things (IoT) is attracting intensive attention. Currently, most existing IoT systems heavily rely on the identification (ID) number of each object/thing, referred as ID-based IoTs. However, in many cases, the ID-based IoT becomes inapplicable due to non-cooperative things that are not attached with any ID number or difficult to obtain an existing ID number. This paper proposes a new non-ID (nID) things concept for non-cooperative things, and nID-based IoT to make IoT suit more real situations. Then, a nID-based IoT solution is designed for the airport aviation risk management, and some key issues including sensing, coding and resolving are discussed. Additionally, an exemplary case study of bird-strike hazard management is presented to further explain how to apply the nID-based IoT for the scenario with non-cooperative things. It is envisioned that nID-based IoT will support increasing number of applications where the things have no any available IDs.