Wind energy survey with Wi-Fi tags based intelligent agents

The paper presents an agent-based survey system for wind energy. The wind energy is measured inside of an administrative region. In the first part of the paper a brief introduction in multi-agent systems is presented. The second part describes the hardware and software architecture, the third part presents experimental results and the last one deals with the conclusions. The agents are able to communicate in order to allocate the hardware resources via Wi-Fi. In this way the system implements virtual redundancy, e.q. that if a part of the system fails, other parts will assume its tasks. Virtual redundancy provides a low cost reliable configuration. Another novelty of the system design is Wi-Fi with ultra-low power consumption, in a very small package that is running on a battery for years and offers a platform for sensor measurements using the Internet network infrastructure.