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How Does Mobile Agent Work

By Jane Ericson


Technology is evolving all the time at a very rapid speed. As it evolves, new things become possible which previously we could have never even imagined. These offerings provide exciting benefits to others in the tech industry as well as average citizens. Mobile agent technology is one great example of this fast-moving innovation.

Mobile agent technology is quite possibly a term you are completely unfamiliar with. However, you may be exposed to mobile agents every day at work or at home. Even though you may have never personally installed them, you may have had them work to your advantage and not even know it.

How can that be? Well, mobile agents by design work independently. After they have been installed on one computer, they can navigate their way to other computers within a network to execute scripts and perform tasks. In that sense they represent truly remarkable innovation.

Mobile agents used specialized servers and must be installed on a network. But once on the network, they can find their own path to the computers they need to visit. They are coded with Java or Java Virtual Machine, so they can be used on many different types of computers. This is quite valuable in a network setting since a business may have several different types of computers running for different types of employees within the company.

Within your company's network, there may be a need to have software developed and disseminated onto GPS devices, smartphones, laptops, and desktop PCs. Your coding team will not need to develop new applications for each of these platforms, as the mobile agent should be able to reach them all. So an item can be installed once, and you can then rely on the mobile agents to do the rest of the work.

You may be amazed at this technology but find yourself wondering about its practical uses. It is excellent for transferring information from one point to another. Common uses include financial information and location data. But these few examples are by no means an exhaustive list of what can be shared via mobile agents.

Ask yourself what you need shared and why, as well as who it needs to be shared with. Discuss these questions with your company's IT department, and perhaps they can use an existing mobile agent technology to solve your problems.

Just a few years ago, could you ever have guessed that this type of technology would exist? Mobile agents autonomy and self-direction is truly impressive, and it offers lots of exciting potential. And perhaps the best news of all is that they will continue to evolve, becoming an increasingly sophisticated tool for IM staff everywhere to use.




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