"CNAS (Collaborative Network for Atmospheric Sensing) is an agent-based, power-aware sensor network for ground-level atmospheric monitoring." sound familiar?  http://dancorkill.com/pubs/CNAS-ATSN08.pdf http://dancorkill.com/pubs Stumbled across while I was looking into an ancient idea that a friend of mine referenced: blackboard systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl ackboard_system .