JADE/JMS integration Part I- User Scenario

JADE (Java Agent Development Environment) is a mature agent platform. It receives a lots of attention in software agent development paradigm. In this post I will discuss a scenario that using JADE as a basic platform to develop Tel-Gate application. The Tel-Gate is equipped with multiple RFID readers and IP based cameras. The agents in JADE have to communicate with the RFID reader middleware and surveillance system. Then, a fusion process will be execute when the agent receives any signal from both systems.
I list the agent's responsibilities as following:

1. communicate the surveillance system to get the meta-data which is produced when something appear in the front of the camera. The meta-data from the surveillance is a text message in XML format delivered by JMS.
   
2. communicate with RFID middleware (JMS application) to get the RFID signal.
3. fuse the signal from different devices.
4. report a situation to backend.

The challenges I have to overcome is list as following:

1. In JADE how to cooperator with the JMS to get the message from other sub-system.
2. How to simulate a time domain to fuse the data from difference sub-system.

This project is a benchmark project to compare the capability with SystemJ (which is language the use to perform GALS). I will try to make this program as small as possible.

What will be devliered in this project:

1. a development project under eclipse.
2. an ant script that used to execute the build process and execution.
3. several agents based on JADE will be developed.
4. a performance result will be reported.

Next post, I will introduce the system architecture of this system.