The paper investigates local preprocessing of sensor data by autonomous agents. Means of artificial intelligence are applied to facilitate a rich and comprehensive preprocessing in order to reduce the amount of communication in spite of reasonable configuration costs. Scenarios for applications are presented, from which requirements are derived. After a short discussion of related approaches, an architecture for autonomous information processing (AIP architecture) is developed as a base for implementing a framework for the generation of agents. A prototype for computer aided care of elderly people is explained.     «

The paper investigates local preprocessing of sensor data by autonomous agents. Means of artificial intelligence are applied to facilitate a rich and comprehensive preprocessing in order to reduce the amount of communication in spite of reasonable configuration costs. Scenarios for applications are presented, from which requirements are derived. After a short discussion of related approaches, an architecture for autonomous information processing (AIP architecture) is developed as a base for impl...     »