Enabling Cyber Physical Systems with Wireless Sensor Networking Technologies, Multiagent System Paradigm, and Natural Ecosystems

Table 1

Mapping living organisms’ characteristics to sensors.

Characteristic	Sensor conformity	Sensor limitation
Nutrition	Supported: acquire information from the environment or from peers to fulfill tasks	Hardware and intelligence to get the right information
Excretion	Supported: clean memory from obsolete data	Intelligence to filter data
Respiration	Not supported, not necessary	—
Sensitivity	Supported: sense/detect changes in the environment	Context awareness
Reproduction	Supported: reproduce some capabilities with software components	Autonomy to reproduce
Growth	Supported: grow in terms of capabilities and knowledge	Processing capabilities
Movement	Supported: move when actuators are available	Intelligence to make the right move