Automatic surveillance in power system telecontrol applying embedded and multi-agent system technologies

We have designed, implemented and deployed a system called IDOLO [1] [9]. This system was born within a research project with the main goal of adding audiovisual information to the usually text-based Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) used on Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. IDOLO system is based on well-known hardware and software solutions, such as Ethernet networks or MPEG codecs, resulting in a flexible and extendable system that has successfully been deployed in a real electrical facility. Now our effort is focused on developing this system inside an embedded system by using the last technology. This is in order to provide a black box that includes the same functionality of IDOLO system and automatic surveillance as well. We are basing our work on different kinds of embedded systems and we are modeling its autonomous surveillance behavior by using Multi-Agent System technology.