To address the architectural and security issues with the IoT, intelligent agents must represent more than a smarter way to build IoT nodes. We must actually move to a new architectural paradigm – an architectural style I hazard to label Agent-Oriented Architecture (AOA). AOA inherits some characteristics of C/S and P2P, but is truly a different paradigm, because the agents control the interactions. And as long as the agents do our bidding, AOA puts us – the technology consumer – in control of the IoT.