Enabling private and public sector organizations as agents of homeland security

摘要

Homeland security and defense applications seek to reduce the risk of undesirable eventualities across physical space in real-time. With that functional requirement in mind, our work focused on the development of IP based agent telecommunication solutions for heterogeneous sensor / robotic intelligent "Things" that could be deployed across the internet. This paper explains how multi-organization information and device sharing alliances may be formed to enable organizations to act as agents of homeland security (in addition to other uses). Topics include: (ⅰ) using location-aware, agent based, real-time information sharing systems to integrate business systems, mobile devices, sensor and actuator based devices and embedded devices used in physical infrastructure assets, equipment and other man-made "Things"; (ⅱ) organization-centric real-time information sharing spaces using on-demand XML schema formatted networks; (ⅲ) object-oriented XML serialization as a methodology for heterogeneous device glue code; (ⅳ) how complex requirements for inter / intra organization information and device ownership and sharing, security and access control, mobility and remote communication service, tailored solution life cycle management, service QoS, service and geographic scalability and the projection of remote physical presence (through sensing and robotics) and remote informational presence (knowledge of what is going elsewhere) can be more easily supported through feature inheritance with a rapid agent system development methodology; (ⅴ) how remote object identification and tracking can be supported across large areas; (ⅵ) how agent synergy may be leveraged with analytics to complement heterogeneous device networks.