%0 Journal Article
%T A Multi-Agent-Based Intelligent Sensor and Actuator Network Design for Smart House and Home Automation
%A Qingquan Sun
%A Weihong Yu
%A Nikolai Kochurov
%A Qi Hao
%A Fei Hu
%J Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/jsan2030557
%X The smart-house technology aims to increase home automation and security with reduced energy consumption. A smart house consists of various intelligent sensors and actuators operating on different platforms with conflicting objectives. This paper proposes a multi-agent system (MAS) design framework to achieve smart house automation. The novelties of this work include the developments of (1) belief, desire and intention (BDI) agent behavior models; (2) a regulation policy-based multi-agent collaboration mechanism; and (3) a set of metrics for MAS performance evaluation. Simulations of case studies are performed using the Java Agent Development Environment (JADE) to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.
%K multi-agent system
%K smart house
%K intelligent sensor-actuator networks
%K JADE
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2224-2708/2/3/557