Overview
- Makes the potential application of ambient intelligence (basics and promise) understandable to non-experts
- Explores the intriguing possibilities of exploiting the efectiveness of smart devices within a smart environment, especially in the home
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Front Matter
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About this book
Ambient intelligence (AI) refers to a developing technology that will increasingly make our everyday environment sensitive and responsive to our presence. The AI vision requires technology invisibly embedded in our everyday surroundings, present whenever we need it that will lead to the seamless integration of lighting, sounds, vision, domestic appliances, and personal healthcare products to enhance our living experience. Written for the non-specialist seeking an authoritative but accessible overview of this interdisciplinary field, True Visions explains how the devices making up the AI world will operate collectively using information and intelligence hidden in the wireless network connecting them. Expert contributions address key AI components such as smart materials and textiles, system architecture, mobile computing, broadband communication, and underlying issues of human-environment interactions. It seeks to unify the perspectives of scientists from diverse backgrounds ranging from the physics of materials to the aesthetics of industrial design as it describes the emergence of ambient intelligence, one of today’s most compelling areas of innovation.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: True Visions
Book Subtitle: The Emergence of Ambient Intelligence
Editors: Emile Aarts, José Encarnação
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28974-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28972-2Published: 07 July 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-77546-1Published: 10 December 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-28974-6Published: 13 December 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 437
Topics: Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Communications Engineering, Networks, Circuits and Systems