Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Ambient Intelligence: Impact on Embedded System Design

  • Book
  • © 2003

Overview

Editors:
  1. Twan Basten

    1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Marc Geilen

    1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Harmke Groot

    1. Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
    Download chapter PDF

  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
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Reviews

"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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Twan Basten, Marc Geilen

  • Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Harmke Groot

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation