Research Article
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 |
|
|