01680nas a2200241   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653002900055653003100084653002400115653002000139100001900159700001900178700001600197700001800213245009300231856007400324300001000398490000600408520101000414022001401424       2012                            d  c06/201210aWireless Sensor Networks10aReal-Time Locating Systems10aMulti-Agent Systems10aMaritime Piracy1 aÓscar García1 aRicardo Alonso1 aDante Tapia1 aFabio Guevara00aWireless Sensor Networks and Real-Time Locating Systems to Fight against Maritime Piracy  uhttp://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/IJIMAI20121_5_2.pdf  a14-210 v13 aThere is a wide range of military and civil applications where Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) can be used for providing context-awareness 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.
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