A machine learning technique in a multi-agent framework for online outliers detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks enable flexibility, low operational and maintenance costs, as well as scalability in a variety of scenarios. However, in the context of industrial monitoring scenarios the use of Wireless Sensor Networks can compromise the system's performance due to several factors, being one of them the presence of outliers in raw data. In order to improve the overall system's resilience, this paper proposes a distributed hierarchical multi-agent architecture where each agent is responsible for a specific task. This paper deals with online detection and accommodation of outliers in non-stationary time-series by appealing to a machine learning technique. The methodology is based on a Least Squares Support Vector Machine along with a sliding window-based learning algorithm. A modification to this method is considered to improve its performance in transient raw data collected from transmitters over a Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). An empirical study based on laboratory test-bed show the feasibility and relevance of incorporating the proposed methodology in the context of monitoring systems over Wireless Sensor Networks.

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