Enhancing the Internet of Things (IoT) via the Concept of Agent of Things (AoT)

Authors

  • Anas M Mzahm College of Graduate Studies Universiti Tenaga Nasional
  • Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad College of Information Technology Universiti Tenaga Nasional
  • Alicia Y. C. Tang College of Graduate Studies Universiti Tenaga Nasional

Keywords:

component; Internet of Things; Agents of Things; Multi-agent Systems; Software Agents

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a relatively new concept that has many potentials and value for the research and industrial communities. It is distinguished by many features that shape the future of the Internet. However, it has some issues in intelligence, security and governance. To resolve the intelligence issue, we propose an integrated concept that constitutes the IoT and intelligent software agent technology. In this paper, we review and analyze the architectures of the IoT and identify its deficiencies, primarily the lack of reasoning and intelligence capability. We also review the software agent general architecture, the BDI architecture and multi-agent system architecture. We then propose a solution to augment the IoT with intelligent software agents resulting in a new concept called the Agents of Things (AoT). To emphasize the benefits of the AoT, we present the AoT general framework and two application scenarios of the proposed concept.

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Anas M Mzahm, College of Graduate Studies Universiti Tenaga Nasional

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a relatively new concept that has many potentials and value for the research and industrial communities. It is distinguished by many features that shape the future of the Internet. However, it has some issues in intelligence, security and governance. To resolve the intelligence issue, we propose an integrated concept that constitutes the IoT and intelligent software agent technology. In this paper, we review and analyze the architectures of the IoT and identify its deficiencies, primarily the lack of reasoning and intelligence capability. We also review the software agent general architecture, the BDI architecture and multi-agent system architecture. We then propose a solution to
augment the IoT with intelligent software agents resulting in a new concept called the Agents of Things (AoT). To emphasize the benefits of the AoT, we present the AoT general framework and two application scenarios of the proposed concept.

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Published

2014-04-01

How to Cite

Anas M Mzahm, Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad, & Alicia Y. C. Tang. (2014). Enhancing the Internet of Things (IoT) via the Concept of Agent of Things (AoT). Journal of Network and Innovative Computing, 2, 10. Retrieved from https://cspub-jnic.org/index.php/jnic/article/view/55

Issue

Vol. 2 (2014)

Section

Original Article

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