The Sensor Web Agent Platform(SWAP)

SWAP is a sensor web architecture that makes use of Web services and Multi-Agent systems.It serves as a framework for builinding sensor web applications over the internet.

The SWAP framework is a three-tier architecture framework consisting of three layers namely:

1. Sensor Layer
2. Knowledge Layer
3. Application Layer

The Sensor Layer

-Consists of sensor agents(small programms) that encapsulate the actual sensors.

-Sensor agents pass thier information to the workflow agents in the Knowledge layer.

-Sensor agents hide the implementation of the sensors.

The Knowledge Layer

-Consists of tool,workflow and simulation agents.

-Workflow agents recieve data from sensor agents.

-Tool agents provide feature extraction and image processing functionality.

-Simulation Agents provide projections and analysis of data.

-Data moves from workflow agents to the Application Layer.

Application Layer

-Consits of application agents.They provide various user interfaces for users and various APIs.