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Ambient intelligence (AmI) deals with a new world of ubiquitous computing devices, where physical environments interact intelligently and unobtrusively with people. AmI environments can be diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, vehicles, tourist attractions, stores, sports facilities, and music devices. In this paper, we present the design and implementation...
This paper focuses on how recently announced modern programmable and smart residential thermostats for smart homes can contribute to better energy usage in households. It explores people’s motivation for using these technologies, how they actually use them and how much energy they can save based on the producer’s experimental measurements.
Smart Homes (Intelligent Homes) are homes with technologically advanced systems to enable domestic task automation, easier communication and higher security. The applications that can be supported by a Smart Home are very wide and their degree of sophistication depends on the underlying technology used. Some of the application areas include automation, monitoring and control of appliances, security,...
Ambient intelligence is an emerging discipline that brings intelligence to our everyday environments and makes those environments sensitive to us. Ambient Intelligence technologies are more and more frequently adopted in scenarios, like healthcare, crisis management, remote monitoring and control, which are critical for human safety. This requires that such a kind of applications be designed taking...
ISyRAmI (Intelligent Systems Research for Ambient Intelligence) proposed by IST is an Artificial Intelligence oriented methodology and architecture for the development of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems. The ISyRAmI architecture considers the following four modules: Data/Information/Knowledge acquisition; Data/Information/Knowledge storage, conversion, and handling; Intelligent Reasoning; and Decision...
The increasing number of devices that are invisibly embedded into our surrounding environment as well as the proliferation of wireless communication and sensing technologies are the basis for visions like ambient intelligence, ubiquitous and pervasive computing. PErvasive Computing in Embedded Systems (PECES) project is committed to developing the technological basis to enable the global cooperation...
We've long heard about the wide functionality that home automation technologies offer for improving our lives and securing our houses. However, price and an unstable domotics market have restricted such systems' deployment. Nowadays, companies offer too technology-dependent solutions that don't cover user demands completely. Meanwhile, research works focus on small innovations on specific parts of...
Current approaches for software development fail in the integration of security aspects. Usually, this is because of the software complexity and the specific expertise needed for the integration of modern security solutions. In this paper we present the SERENITY Project which proposes a framework addressing this issue. SERENITY is based on the separation of the development of security solutions from...
The architecture of intelligent grid offers a solution to the existing problems in ambient intelligence, based on intelligent agents. State-of-the-art concerns regarding intelligent agents based systems are showing the necessity of developing techniques for addressing the problem of security and fault tolerance. This paper proposes dedicated detection schemes for different types of attacks, being...
One of the main challenges in ubiquitous networks is localization. Many positioning methods have been proposed in the literature since this data is critical for numerous protocols and services. Choosing the right localization algorithm for a specific environment is a hard task. However, it is even more complex when several radio access technologies are available in evolving environments. This paper...
The security of the existing ambient intelligence model presents a particular challenge because this architecture combines different networks, being prone to vulnerabilities and attacks. Specific techniques are required to be studied in order to provide a fault-tolerant system. One way to address this goal is to apply different techniques in order to correct the errors introduced in the systems by...
This article presents an approach of modeling by Petri nets of the cooperation between active products that are equipped with sensor networks devices providing ambient communication and sensing capabilities. Such active products are able to control the environmental security level in ambient intelligence context of a hazardous substances warehouse. The proposed concept of active products is supported...
Ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to an environment that is sensitive, responsive, interconnected, contextualized, transparent, intelligent, and acting on behalf of humans. AmI environments impose some constraints in the connectivity framework, power computing as well as energy budget. This makes of AmI a significantly different case within distributed systems. The combination of heterogeneity, dynamism,...
It is difficult to get the decision about an opinion after many users get the meeting in same place. It used to spend too much time in order to find solve some problem because of the various opinions of each other. TAmI (group decision making toolkit) is the system to group decision in ambient intelligence (C.F. Freitas et al, 2007).. This program was composed with IGATA (H.K. Park et al., 2005),...
This paper presents our pattern-based approach to run-time requirements monitoring and threat detection being developed as part of an approach to build frameworks supporting the construction of secure and dependable systems for ambient intelligence. Our patterns infra-structure is based on templates. From templates we generate event-calculus formulas expressing security requirements to monitor at...
Digital ecosystems (DES) have recently been introduced into the computer and information societies. A digital ecosystem is the dynamic and synergetic complex of Digital Communities consisting of interconnected, interrelated and interdependent digital species situated in a digital environment, that interact as a functional unit and are linked together through actions, information and transaction flows...
Current processes for providing security and dependability (S&D) in computing systems require a detailed a priori knowledge about the target systems and their environments. However, in many emergent computing scenarios like ubiquitous computing or ambient intelligence, it is not possible to foresee all possible situations that may arise at runtime so the necessary knowledge is not available at...
From an academic experience spent endeavoring to write code and assign design methodology for a XILINX University Program (XUP) FPGA, participants received a glimpse at future intelligent infrastructure design and what it could mean towards improving public safety and homeland security. Participants also received a reality-based appreciation about practical hurdles in creating code for an FPGA (PSoC)...
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