Building Automation Systems typically consists of di erent types of devices interacting and sharing information with each other. Similarly, Multi-Agent Systems has focused on flexible mechanisms to coordinate networks of (usually distributed) autonomous computational entities. The integration of these two fields provides powerful solutions to complex problems. Such integration has often been attempted by using Web technologies, such as Web services. However, the lack of a common standards among those components has long complicated such integration forcing to the development of translating gateways. WebSocket is a new Web communication standard which solves many of those problems, facilitating the integration of Building Automation Systems, Multi-Agent Systems and Web technologies. To maximize the benefits of each of those three components, we propose a common architecture. We outline our implementation plans in a Health Care use case and exemplify its bene fits in that same scenario.

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