DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS FOR DEVICE INTEGRATION AND CONTROL
Kévin Thomas · Summit (Simon Fraser University) · 2010
Over the last quarter of a century, society has moved towards an immersion into digital technology.Despite the sophistication of current technology, integration and interoperability between digital and non-digital devices and equipment is both an existing problem, and a growing one.The root cause is the conventional paradigm based on highly centralized platforms for integration and operability.This thesis proposes an alternate approach for device control using a Distributed Intelligence System (DIS), presenting it as a viable alternative that enables entities to work together in an intelligent manner to achieve user-defined global and local system objectives.It integrates prior research efforts to develop hardware and software for a real-world DIS, to form a complete system architecture, and applying the same to a practical scenario of a simple security system.Additionally, it examines some of the practical challenges and obstacles experienced over the entire systems development cycle of developing a DIS.