Towards Implementing an Intelligent System for Securing and Monitoring using Agents

Abstract

Most of organizations such as universities have critical positions and rooms and therefore require to be secured. We mean by "securing" here is detecting and isolation of any problem: temperature, motion, stole attempts, etc. Detection is the phase of announcing a problem while isolation is the phase of determining the type and the location of the problem. Securing a university campus could be achieved based upon a number of security guards making security checking rounds (on foot or by vehicles) inside the university campus and in particular around the critical rooms. Other way is to use security camera-based systems. Nonetheless, such systems need to be monitored on the fly by a person. Additionally, they are inapplicable in some cases such as detecting unseen phenomena (e.g. temperature problems). Finally, cameras should be spread out over critical positions in order to monitor every corner. In this chapter, we present an effective and low security system that operate over a wireless network and based on multi-agents to secure the buildings of a given university. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices using sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion or pollutants, at different locations, and are now used in many industrial and civilian application areas, including industrial process monitoring and control, machine health monitoring, environment and habitat monitoring, healthcare applications, home automation, and traffic control. The remainder of this chapter is organized as follows: Section 2 provides an overview of some related systems. We introduce in Section 3 the ACCESS architecture and location based services and their applications. Then we introduce our system in Section 4. We present in Section 5 a simulator as well as an implementation of the system