Ambient Intelligence: Impact on Embedded System Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Omnia Fieri Possent

   1. Omnia Fieri Possent

      • Twan Basten, Marc Geilen, Harmke de Groot

      Pages 1-8

3. Challenges

   1. Embedded System Design Issues in Ambient Intelligence

      • Emile Aarts, Raf Roovers

      Pages 11-29

   2. Ambient Intelligence: A Computational Platform Perspective

      • Luca Benini, Massimo Poncino

      Pages 31-50

   3. Ambient Intelligence and the Development of Embedded System Software

      • Anu Purhonen, Esa Tuulari

      Pages 51-67

   4. Preparation of Heterogeneous Networks for Ambient Intelligence

      • Peter van der Stok

      Pages 69-90

   5. The Butt of the Iceberg: Hidden Security Problems of Ubiquitous Systems

      • Frank Stajano, Jon Crowcroft

      Pages 91-101

   6. Emerging Challenges in Designing Secure Mobile Appliances

      • Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan, Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Sunil Hattangady

      Pages 103-127

4. Developments

   1. The Domestic Robot - A Friendly Cognitive System Takes Care of your Home

      • Fiora Pirri, Ivo Mentuccia, Sandro Storri

      Pages 131-158

   2. QoS-Based Resource Management for Ambient Intelligence

      • Clara M. Otero Pérez, Liesbeth Steffens, Peter van der Stok, Sjir van Loo, Alejandro Alonso, José F. Ruíz et al.

      Pages 159-182

   3. Terminal QoS: Advanced Resource Management for Cost-Effective Multimedia Appliances in Dynamic Contexts

      • Jan Bormans, Nam Pham Ngoc, Geert Deconinck, Gauthier Lafruit

      Pages 183-201

   4. Scalability and Error Protection - Means for Error-Resilient, Adaptable Image Transmission in Heterogeneous Environments

      • Adrian Chirila-Rus, Gauthier Lafruit, Bart Masschelein

      Pages 203-227

   5. Metaprogramming Techniques for Designing Embedded Components for Ambient Intelligence

      • Vytautas Štuikys, Robertas Damaševičius

      Pages 229-250

   6. Application-Domain-Driven System Design for Pervasive Video Processing

      • Zbigniew Chamski, Marc Duranton, Albert Cohen, Christine Eisenbeis, Paul Feautrier, Daniela Genius

      Pages 251-270

   7. Collaborative Algorithms for Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks

      • Tim Nieberg, Stefan Dulman, Paul Havinga, Lodewijk van Hoesel, Jian Wu

      Pages 271-294

   8. Energy-Efficient Communication for High Density Networks

      • Rex Min, Anantha Chandrakasan

      Pages 295-314

   9. Application Re-Mapping for Fault-Tolerance in Ambient Intelligent Systems

      • Phillip Stanley-Marbell, Nicholas H. Zamora, Diana Marculescu, Radu Marculescu

      Pages 315-335

5. Back Matter

   Pages 337-348

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Hugo de Man Professor Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Senior Research Fellow IMEC The steady evolution of hardware, software and communications technology is rapidly transforming the PC- and dot.com world into the world of Ambient Intelligence (AmI). This next wave of information technology is fundam- tally different in that it makes distributed wired and wireless computing and communication disappear to the background and puts users to the foreground. AmI adapts to people instead of the other way around. It will augment our consciousness, monitor our health and security, guide us through traffic etc. In short, its ultimate goal is to improve the quality of our life by a quiet, reliable and secure interaction with our social and material environment. What makes AmI engineering so fascinating is that its design starts from studying person to world interactions that need to be implemented as an int- ligent and autonomous interplay of virtually all necessary networked electronic intelligence on the globe. This is a new and exciting dimension for most elect- cal and software engineers and may attract more creative talent to engineering than pure technology does. Development of the leading technology for AmI will only succeed if the engineering research community is prepared to join forces in order to make Mark Weiser’s dream of 1991 come true. This will not be business as usual by just doubling transistor count or clock speed in a microprocessor or increasing the bandwidth of communication.

• Potential
• Protection
• Sensor
• Software
• algorithms
• ambient intelligence
• architecture
• communication
• multimedia
• network
• processor
• programming
• robot
• robotics
• video

"This book is truly an eye-opener as it is the first book that relates the dream scenarios of Ambient Intelligence quantitatively to the technical challenges and requirements of the huge distributed and interoperable embedded systems needed to implement AmI systems in the real world. This book is strongly recommended to a wide spectrum of engineers interested to embark in this rapidly emerging and fascinating technology."
(From the foreword by Hugo De Man, Professor K.U. Leuven and Senior Research Fellow IMEC)

• Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Twan Basten, Marc Geilen

• Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Harmke Groot

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