Ambient agents: Embedded agents for remote control and monitoring using the PANGEA platform

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 13955-13979

  Villarrubia, Gabriel ^a   De Paz, Juan F ^a   Bajo, Javier ^b   Corchado, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Open MAS; Remote monitoring; Smart living

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; REMOTE CONTROL;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; CONTROL AND MONITORING; OPEN MAS; REMOTE MONITORING; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; SMART LIVINGS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905455321     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140813955     Document Type: Article

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