A Multi-agent Model for Fire Detection in Coal Mines Using Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper presents an application for monitoring and detection of fire in coal mines using wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The application uses BDI (Belief, Desire and Intention) based multi-agent model and its implementation on sensor networks. The language used for implementation is interpreted by Jason; an extension of AgentSpeak which is based on the BDI Architecture. The BDI agents are reactive planning systems; systems that are not meant to compute the value of a function and terminate but rather designed to be permanently running and reacting to some form of event. The distributed model of the environment is adopted to overcome the communication overhead, power consumption, network delay and reliability on a centralized base station.