Position paper: An Agent-oriented Architecture for Building Automation Systems applied to Assistive Technologies

Abstract

Building Automation Systems typically consists of different types of devices interacting and sharing information with each other. Similarly, Multi-Agent Systems has focused on flexible mechanisms to coordinate networks of (usually dis- tributed) autonomous computational entities. The integra- tion of these two fields provides powerful solutions to com- plex problems. Such integration has often been attempted by using Web technologies, such as Web services. However, the lack of a common standards among those components has long complicated such integration forcing to the develop- ment of translating gateways. WebSocket is a new Web com- munication standard which solves many of those problems, facilitating the integration of Building Automation Systems, Multi-Agent Systems and Web technologies. To maximize the benefits of each of those three components, we propose a common architecture. We outline our implementation plans in a Health Care use case and exemplify its benefits in that same scenario.