@article{2374,
  keywords = {Wireless Sensor Networks, Real-Time Locating Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Maritime Piracy},
  author = {Óscar García and Ricardo Alonso and Dante Tapia and Fabio Guevara},
  title = {Wireless Sensor Networks and Real-Time Locating Systems to Fight against Maritime Piracy},
  abstract = {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.
},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {1},
  number = {5},
  pages = {14-21},
  month = {06/2012},
  issn = {1989-1660},
  url = {http://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/IJIMAI20121_5_2.pdf},
  doi = {10.9781/ijimai.2012.152},
}