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Título
Wireless Sensor Networks and Real-Time Locating Systems to Fight against Maritime Piracy
Autor(es)
Materia
Computer Science
Fecha de publicación
2012
Editor
Imai technologies
Citación
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Multimedia (IJIMAI) . Volumen 1 (5), pp. 14-21. Imai technologies .
Resumen
There is a wide range of military and civil applications where Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) can be used for providing context-awareness for troops and special corps. On the one hand, WSNs comprise an ideal technology to develop Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLSs) aimed at indoor environments, where existing global navigation satellite systems do not work properly. On the other hand, agent-based architectures allow building autonomous and robust systems that are capable of working on highly dynamic scenarios. This paper presents two piracy scenarios where the n-Core platform can be applied. n-Core is a hardware and software platform intended for developing and deploying easily and quickly a wide variety of WSNs applications based on the ZigBee standard. In the first scenario a RTLS is deployed to support boarding and rescue operations. In the second scenario a multi-agent system is proposed to detect the unloading of illegal traffic of merchandise at ports.
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ISSN
1989-1660
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