Ambient Intelligence

by Weber, Werner; Rabaey, Jan M.; Aarts, Emile

• ISBN13: 9783540238676
• ISBN10: 3540238670
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Ambient intelligence is the vision of a technology that will become invisibly embedded in our natural surroundings, present whenever we need it, enabled by simple and effortless interactions, attuned to all our senses, adaptive to users and context-sensitive, and autonomous. High-quality information access and personalized content must be available to everybody, anywhere, and at any time. This book addresses ambient intelligence used to support human contacts and accompany an individual's path through the complicated modern world. From the technical standpoint, distributed electronic intelligence is addressed as hardware vanishing into the background. Devices used for ambient intelligence are small, low-power, low weight, and (very importantly) low-cost; they collaborate or interact with each other; and they are redundant and error-tolerant. This means that the failure of one device will not cause failure of the whole system. Since wired connections often do not exist, radio methods will play an important role for data transfer. This book addresses various aspects of ambient intelligence, from applications that are imminent since they use essentially existing technologies, to ambitious ideas whose realization is still far away, due to major unsolved technical challenges.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
W. Weber
J. Rabaey
E. Aarts
Part I Applications
Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing	5	(26)
J. Bohn
V. Coroama
M. Langheinrich
F. Mattern
M. Rohs
Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles	31	(18)
C. Lauterbach
S. Jung
Ambient Intelligence Research in HomeLab Engineering the User Experience	49	(14)
B. de Ruyter
E. Aarts
P. Markopoulos
W. Ijsselsteijn
How Ambient Intelligence will Improve Habitability and Energy Efficiency in Buildings	63	(20)
E. Arens
C. C. Federspiel
D. Wang
C. Huizenga
Part II System Design and Architecture
Networked Infomechanical Systems (NIMS) for Ambient Intelligence	83	(32)
W.J. Kaiser
G.J. Pottie
M. Srivastava
G.S. Sukhatme
J. Villasenor
D. Estrin
TinyOS: An Operating System for Sensor Networks	115	(34)
P. Levis
S. Madden
J. Polastre
R. Szewczyk
K. Whitehouse
A. Woo
D. Gay
J. Hill
M. Welsh
E. Brewer
D. Culler
A Service-Based Universal Application Interface for Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks	149	(24)
M. Sgroi
A. Wolisz
A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
J.M. Rabaey
Locationing and Timing Synchronization Services in Ambient Intelligence Networks	173	(26)
J. van Greunen
J. Rabaey
Security for Ambient Intelligent Systems	199	(24)
I. Verbauwhede
A. Hodjat
D. Hwang
B.-C. Lai
Low-Cost Wireless Control-Networks in Smart Environments	223	(32)
G. Stromberg
T.F. Sturm
Y. Gsottberger
X. Shi
Part III Components and Technologies
Ambient Intelligence Technology: An Overview	255	(16)
F. Snijders
Powering Ambient Intelligent Networks	271	(30)
S. Roundy
M. Strasser
P.K. Wright
Ultra-Low Power Integrated Wireless Nodes for Sensor and Actuator Networks	301	(26)
J. Ammer
F. Burghardt
E. Lin
B. Otis
R. Shah
M. Sheets
J.M. Rabaey
Packaging Challenges in Miniaturization	327	(22)
C. Kallmayer
M. Niedermayer
S. Guttowski
H. Reichl
Algorithms in Ambient Intelligence	349
E. Aarts
J. Korst
W.F.J. Verhaegh