A Multi-Agent System for Multi-Level Based Environmental and Physiological Signal Monitoring and Analysis

This paper presents a prototype C-based multi-agent system, called Sensor Agent Cloud (SAC), for multi-level based environmental and physiological signal monitoring and analysis. The SAC has a four-layered system architecture including the user interface layer, regulation layer, sensor agent group layer and sensor node layer. Two ultra-compact PC-based sensor nodes are prototyped by individually integrating a fully functional ultra-compact computer with two kinds of embedded systems. Proof-of-concept examples on sensor node data retrieval are used to illustrate and validate the low-level operations for SAC administrators through C/C++ mobile agents as well as the high-level operations for SAC end-users through Google Cloud services.