Proposal of a multi-agent system for a smart outdoor lighting environment

Abstract

Outdoor smart lighting is more and more popular since it is regarded as a significant example of an ideal and friendly environment. Systems controlling outdoor lighting, considered as context-aware software, are challenging. A multi-agent system for outdoor street lighting, dealing with intelligent software applications in pervasive computing, has been proposed. Smart scenarios, typical for such an intelligent environment, are presented. An agent-based architecture for a multi-agent system, dealing with the well-known framework JADE, is proposed. It allows further testing of these smart scenarios. This is the first proposal and the beginning of a greater work for implementation and testing of smart lighting scenarios carried out in the agent systems. This work describes the rationale of efforts for achieving ecosystems also working in the IoT paradigm by focusing on a rural environment, featuring data collection, as well as event detections and coordinated reactions.