Ambient Intelligence (eBook)

Werner Weber, Jan Rabaey, Emile H.L. Aarts (Herausgeber)

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2005 | 2005
XIV, 374 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-27139-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 7
List of Contributors 9
Introduction 15
Applications 17
Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing 18
Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles 43
Ambient Intelligence Research in HomeLab: Engineering the User Experience 60
How Ambient Intelligence will Improve Habitability and Energy Efficiency in Buildings 73
System Design and Architecture 91
Networked Infomechanical Systems (NIMS) for Ambient Intelligence 92
TinyOS: An Operating System for Sensor Networks 123
A Service-Based Universal Application Interface for Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks 157
Locationing and Timing Synchronization Services in Ambient Intelligence Networks 181
Security for Ambient Intelligent Systems 206
Low-Cost Wireless Control-Networks in Smart Environments 229
Components and Technologies 259
Ambient Intelligence Technology: An Overview 260
Powering Ambient Intelligent Networks 275
Ultra-Low Power Integrated Wireless Nodes for Sensor and Actuator Networks 304
Packaging Challenges in Miniaturization 329
Algorithms in Ambient Intelligence 351

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2005
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 374 p. 143 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Ambient Intelligence • Complexity • Control • Distributed Electronics • Electronics • Intelligence • Sensor • Smart environment • ubiquitous computing • User Experience (UX)
• ISBN-10: 3-540-27139-2 / 3540271392
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-27139-0 / 9783540271390