Overview
- Describes the intelligent technology of the future
- Authors are pioneers in the field
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications
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System Design and Architecture
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ambient Intelligence
Editors: Werner Weber, Jan M. Rabaey, Emile Aarts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138670
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-23867-6Published: 04 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06281-0Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27139-0Published: 12 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 374
Number of Illustrations: 143 b/w illustrations
Topics: Complexity, Optical and Electronic Materials, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Nanotechnology, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Artificial Intelligence