By Emile Aarts, Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c.mul José Encarnação (auth.), Emile Aarts, Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c.mul José Encarnação (eds.)
ISBN-10: 3540289720
ISBN-13: 9783540289722
ISBN-10: 3540289747
ISBN-13: 9783540289746
Ambient intelligence (AI) refers to a constructing expertise that would more and more make our daily setting delicate and conscious of our presence. The AI imaginative and prescient calls for know-how invisibly embedded in our daily atmosphere, current each time we'd like it that would result in the seamless integration of lights, sounds, imaginative and prescient, family home equipment, and private healthcare items to reinforce our dwelling event. Written for the non-specialist looking an authoritative yet available assessment of this interdisciplinary box, actual Visions explains how the units making up the AI international will function jointly utilizing details and intelligence hidden within the instant community connecting them. specialist contributions tackle key AI elements akin to shrewdpermanent fabrics and textiles, procedure structure, cellular computing, broadband communique, and underlying problems with human-environment interactions. It seeks to unify the views of scientists from diversified backgrounds starting from the physics of fabrics to the aesthetics of business layout because it describes the emergence of ambient intelligence, one among today’s so much compelling components of innovation.
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Four cases are now developed to illustrate how Ambient Intelligence could address socio-economic realities and challenges in an innovative and European way.
All the changes affect the four pillars of the European model while at the same time current ICTs and future AmI environments might affect them too (Clements et al. 2004). This becomes obvious from the following arguments: – ISTs are essential for growth and employment. Firstly because the IST sector is a growth sector per se. The ICT equipment and services sector on its own right have grown from 4% of EU GDP in the early 1990s to around 8% and accounted for 6% of employment in the EU in 2000. R&D investment in the ICT sector accounts for 18% of overall EU spending in R&D (OECD 2002; COM 2004/757).
It demands for high flexibility and mobility in the organisation of labour and living in order to be competitive. Demographic and social trends, such as individualism, diversity, mobility and the choice of personal life styles, all affect the structure of groups and communities and the ways we live and work. Mobile phones, for instance, are enablers of lifestyles that are increasingly individual and mobile. Household structures (family size and composition) are changing too, with a decline of traditional nuclear families and an increase of dual income households and single parent/single person households (Gavigan et al.
True Visions: The Emergence of Ambient Intelligence by Emile Aarts, Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c.mul José Encarnação (auth.), Emile Aarts, Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c.mul José Encarnação (eds.)
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