Toward a Methodology of IoT‐a: Embedded Agents for the Internet of Things

With the increase in the number of connected objects around us, the concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data are expanding to cover a wide variety of areas of application. This chapter reviews the objects of the IoT as the agents in multi‐agent systems, with the goal of modeling and implementing a multi‐agent architecture in the field of the IoT. It also reviews the different paradigms of the IoT and the links that have been established in the literature between the IoT and multi‐agent systems. In order to experiment the multi‐agent architecture in a real‐world context, the chapter then presents an application of IoT‐a through a set of connected “brick‐screens” that allows programmers to build an interactive and reconfigurable wall of screens. It illustrates this application by visiting the eco‐distributed resolution of the N‐Puzzle algorithm and applying it to the resolution of an N‐puzzle video.