Intelligent Agents Assisted Information Aggregation in Internet of Things

Abstract

The use of wireless sensor technology in various Internet of Things (IoT) applications is growing rapidly. With the exponential increase of smart devices and their applications, collecting and analysing data is gradually becoming one of the most difficult tasks. As sensor nodes are battery powered, energy efficiency is essential. To that intention, before passing the data to the base station, a sensor node should reduce redundancy in the data received from neighbour nodes. There will be some redundancy in the data because different sensor nodes typically notice the same phenomenon. Data aggregation is one of the most important approaches for eliminating data redundancy and improving energy efficiency, as well as extending the life time of wireless sensor networks. Furthermore, the effective data aggregation technique might help to reduce network traffic. In this article we have proposed cluster based data aggregation using intelligent agents.