Wireless sensor networks and real-time locating systems to fight against maritime piracy

  1. García García, Óscar
  2. Alonso Rincón, Ricardo S.
  3. Tapia Martínez, Dante Israel
  4. Guevara, Fabio
  5. Prieta Pintado, Fernando de la
  6. Bravo, Raúl A.
Aldizkaria:
IJIMAI

ISSN: 1989-1660

Argitalpen urtea: 2012

Alea: 1

Zenbakia: 5

Orrialdeak: 14-21

Mota: Artikulua

DOI: 10.9781/IJIMAI.2012.152 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Laburpena

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 contextawareness 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.