Resumen de Wireless sensor networks and real-time locating systems to fight against maritime piracy

Óscar García García, Ricardo S. Alonso Rincón , Dante Israel Tapia Martínez, Fabio Guevara, Fernando de la Prieta Pintado , Raúl A. Bravo

• 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 contextawareness 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.