Smart Platform runs upon networks-connected computers in a Smart Space. Smart Platform masks the boundary of the involved the computers and provides a uniform running environment and highly structured communication model for the software modules run on the platform.This figure shows the architecture of the whole Smart Platform.

• An Agent is the basic encapsulation of the software modules of the systems.
• Each computer participating in the runtime environment will host a dedicated process called Container, which provides system-level services for and maintains the agents that run on the same computer. In some sense, Container is the mediator between agent and DS. It makes the low-level communicate details transparent to agent developers and provides a simple communication interface for agent.
• There is one global dedicated process called DS in the environment. The DS mediate the "Delegated" communications between agents and provide services such as agent query, dependency resolution.