Ambient Intelligence: Awareness Context Application in Industrial Storage

Ahmed Zouinkhi, Eddy Bajic, Eric Rondeau, Mohamed Ben Gayed, Mohamed Naceur Abdelkrim
DOI: 10.4236/wsn.2011.34016                

Abstract

WSNs are designed to efficiently collect data and monitor environments, among other applications. This article describes the concept and realization of an Active Security System for security management of warehousing of chemical substances using WSNs. We present an approach to modeling and simulating cooperation between intelligent products that are equipped with a platform of sensor networks and ambient communication capabilities to increase their security, in a context of ambient intelligence of a deposit for chemical substances. Behavior evolution of every intelligent product is modeled by hierarchical Petri Nets. The simulation of the model is implemented in the Castalia-OMNET++ Tools language.

Keywords

Ambient Intelligence, Intelligent Product, Cooperation, Security, WSN, Petri Nets, Castalia

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	Collaborative Business Items, European Community FP6 STREP Project, IST 004270, Technical Report, 2008. URL: www.cobis-online.de
[2]	M. Strohbach, G. Kortuem and H. Gellersen, “Cooperative Artefacts — A Framework for Em-bedding Knowledge in Real World Objects,” International Workshop on Smart Object Systems at UbiComp, Tokyo, 11-14 September 2005, pp. 91-99.
[3]	B. Quanz and C. Tsatsoulis, “Determining Object Safety Using a Multiagent Collaborative System,” In ECOSOA, Workshop at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Venice, 20-24 October 2008, pp. 25-30.
[4]	A. V. Ratzer, L. Wells, H. M. Larsen, M. Laursen, J. F. Qvortrup, M. S. Stissing, M. Westergaard, S. Christensen and K. Jensen, “CPN-Tools for Editing, Simulating and Analysing Coloured Petri Net,” Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, Eindhoven, Vol. 2679, 23-27 June 2003, pp. 450-462.
[5]	IST Advisory Group. The European Union Report, “Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence in 2010,” 2001. URL: ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/istagscenarios2010.pdf
[6]	J. C. Augusto and D. Cook. “Ambient Intelligence: Applications in Society and Opportunities for AI,” Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hy-derabad, 6-12 January 2007.
[7]	J. C. Augusto, “Ambient Intelligence: The Confluence of Pervasive Computing and Ar-tificial Intelligence,” In: A. Schuster, Ed., Intelligent Computing Everywhere, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007, pp. 213-234. doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-943-9_11
[8]	H. Raffler, “Other Perspectives on Ambient Intelligence,” 2006. URL:www.research.philips.com/password/archive/ 23/pw23_ambintel_other.html
[9]	M. Weiser. “The Computer for the Twenty-First Century,” Scientific American, Vol. 165, No. 3, 1991, pp 94-104. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0991-94
[10]	N. Streitz and P. Nixon, “The Disappearing Computer-Introduction,” Commu-nications of the ACM, The Disappearing Computer (Special Issue), Vol. 48, No. 3, March 2005, pp. 32-35.
[11]	D. McFar-lane, S. Sarma, C. J. Lung, C. Y. Wong and K. Ashton, “The Intelligent Product in Manufacturing Control and Management,” Proceedings of the 15th IFAC Triennial World Congress, Barcelona, 21-26 July 2002.
[12]	E. Bajic, “A Service-Based Methodology for RFID- Smart Objects Interactions in Supply Chain,” International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2009, pp. 37-54.
[13]	Wong C. Y., McFarlane D., Zaharudin A., Agarwal V., “The Intelligent Product Driven Supply Chain,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, 6-9 October 2002, pp. 6-11.
[14]	M. K?rkk?inen, J. Holmstr?m, K. Fr?mling and K. Artto, “Intelligent Products — A Step towards a More Effective Project Delivery Chain,” Journal of Computer in Industry, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2003, pp. 141-151.
[15]	M. H. Jansen-Vullers, C. A. Van Dorp, A. J. Beulensb, “Managing Traceability Information in Manufacture,” International Journal of Information Managemen, Vol. 23, No. 5, 2003, pp. 395-413. doi:10.1016/S0268-4012(03)00066-5
[16]	M. Bitam and H. Alla, “Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks for Distributed Systems,” International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2006, pp. 218-226.
[17]	B. Brahimi, C. Aubrun and E. Rondeau, “Mod-elling and Simulation of Scheduling Policies Implemented in Ether- net Switch by Using Coloured Petri Nets,” Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Tech-nologies and Factory Automation, Prague, 20-22 September 2006, pp. 667-674. doi:10.1109/ETFA.2006.355373
[18]	A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni, S. Haddad and H. Mazouzi, “Protocol Engineering for Multi-agent Interaction,” Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Valencia, 30 June-2 July 1999, pp. 89-101
[19]	A. Zouinkhi, E. Bajic, R. Zidi, M. Ben Gayed, E. Rondeau and M. N. Abdelkrim. “Petri Net Modelling of Active Products Cooperation for Active Security Management,” Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Multi-Conference on System Signals and Devices, Djerba, 23-26 March 2009, pp. 1-6.
[20]	S. Kashif, F. Norsheila, H. Sharifah, K. Sharifah and R. Rozeha “Autonomously Intelligent WSN Routing Protocol Based on Ant Colony Optimization,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing & Power Applications, Langkawi, 19-20 December 2009.
[21]	H. N. Pham, D. Pediaditakis and A. Boulis, “From Simulation to Real Deployments in WSN and Back,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Espoo, 18-21 June 2007, pp. 1-6.
[22]	S Tschirner, X. D. Liang and Y. Wang, “Model-Based Validation of QoS Properties of Biomedical Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Embedded Software, Atlanta, 19-24 October 2008, pp. 69-78.
[23]	A. Meier, M. Motani, S. Q. Hu and S. Künzli, “DiMo: Distributed Node Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Net-works,” Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Vancouver, 27-31 October 2008, pp. 117-121. doi:10.1145/1454503.1454526
[24]	K. Sohraby, D. Minoli and T. Znati, “Wireless Sensor Networks Technology, Protocols, and Applications,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-471-74300-2. doi:10.1002/047011276X
[25]	G. J. Pottie and W. J. Kaiser. “Wireless Integrated Network Sensors,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 5, 2000, pp. 51-58. doi:10.1145/332833.332838