%0 Journal Article
%T Wireless Sensor Networks and Real-Time Locating Systems to Fight against Maritime Piracy
%A ¨®scar Garc¨ªa
%A Ricardo S. Alonso
%A Dante I. Tapia
%A Fabio Guevara
%J International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
%D 2012
%I ImaI-Software
%X 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.
%K Wireless Sensor Networks
%K Real-Time Locating Systems
%K Multi-Agent Systems
%K Maritime Piracy
%U http://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/IJIMAI20121_5_2.pdf