Introduction to Ambient Intelligence AmI

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Introduction to Ambient Intelligence (AmI)

• Lectural Cheng-Hsun Hsieh
• Department of MES, STUT
• zcc_at_mai.stut.edu.tw

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Introduction

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a striking and to
some extent provocative vision of the future
society.
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Definitions

• Ambient Intelligence is a distributed network of
  intelligent devices that provides us with
  information, communication and entertainment.
• Ambient Intelligence is a network of hidden
  intelligent interfaces that recognize our
  presence and mould our environment to our
  immediate needs.

Emile Aarts , Rick Harwig, Ambient Intelligence
John Horvath, Telepolis, Making Friends with Big
brother
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Definitions

• Ambient Intelligence refers to an exciting new
  paradigm in information technology, in which
  people are empowered through a digital
  environment that is aware of their presence and
  context and is sensitive, adaptive and responsive
  to their needs, habits, gestures and emotions.

Taken from Ambience Project URL
http//www.extra.research.philips.com/euprojects/a
mbience
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Three Key Technologies

• 1. Ubiquitous Computing
• means the integration of microprocessors into
  everyday objects like furniture, clothes or toys.
• 2. Ubiquitous Communication
• should enable these objects to communicate with
  each other and with the user.

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Three Key Technologies

• 3. Intelligent User Interface
• enables the inhabitants of the AmI to control and
  interact with the environment in a natural
  (voice, gestures) and personalized way
  (preferences, context).

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AmI Should be

• Ambient Intelligence will raise some concerns
  over privacy and security issue. That is why
  Ambient Intelligence must be user friendly,
  controllable and secure. Besides it should be
  almost invisible and moreover it should be
  nowhere unless we need it.

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Key Word

• CONTROL

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Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence

• 4 scenarios from ISTAG 2001 report Ambient
  Intelligence In 2010
• Scenario 1 Maria' Road Warrior
• Scenario 2Dimitrios' and the Digital Me' (D-Me)
• Scenario 3 Carmen traffic, sustainability
  commerce
• Scenario 4 Annette and Solomon in the Ambient
  for Social Learning

ISTAG is a abbreviation of Information Society
Technology Advisory Group
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S1 Maria' Road Warrior

• Socio-political issues
• What makes people actually being afraid of
  Ambient Intelligence?
• Marias P-com (key of keys) will contain many
  personal and confidential information about the
  user.
• privacy, confidence and security

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S1 Maria' Road Warrior

• Business environment
• market is here primarily targeted at the
  high-wage business-oriented users
• standard services (central billing, network
  access management, programming)
• special services (booking hotel rooms, renting
  cars, health services)
• Merging different nature of services or different
  corporate culture

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S1 Maria' Road Warrior

• Technological issues
• What must be done in the technological field to
  make P-com reality?
• A micro-sized radio software transceiver
  interoperate with different wireless protocols
  (e.g. GSM) or even with satellite.
• ID key of keys biometrics or chip implantation

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S2 Dimitrios' and the D-Me

• Socio-political issues
• PRIVACY
• Who are my data accessible to?
• AUTHENTICITY
• People, and especially the old guard, may
  prefer talking to realhuman being.
• ETHICS
• fake identities
• CRIME
• Misusing the D-Mes for ethically suspicious
  activities

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S2 Dimitrios' and the D-Me

• Business environment
• Market segmentation Not all D-Mes will have the
  same performances
• Fashion design
• The core service matching activity.
• Public service provision to counterbalance the
  users that D-Mes might acquire if driven only by
  fun or hedonistic drivers.

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S2 Dimitrios' and the D-Me

• Technological issues
• It should be micro-sized device with an
  integrated data capture capacity and wireless ad
  hoc network communication.
• The D-Me is meant to be a network device to
  services such as virtual matching or
  decentralized data warehousing

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S3 Carmen traffic, sustainability commerce

• Socio-political issues
• AmI will not solve all transport and
  environmental problems, but it aims at reaching a
  situation that can deserve the attribute
  tolerable.
• Are there any pressures we would be faced with if
  forced to accept all these changes?
• new taxes may be imposed (counterparts of the
  so-called subway-tax in some big cities), and
  this is always considered a significant social
  cost

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S3 Carmen traffic, sustainability commerce

• Business environment
• A smart city would demand a great deal of new
  smart devices and systems
• There will be much room for the companies
  providing software necessary to make these
  complex systems function.
• E-commerce might be a driver of different
  organizational patterns between the supplier and
  the retailer. The supply of products would be
  strictly on-demand.

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S3 Carmen traffic, sustainability commerce

• Technological issues
• Whole traffic infrastructure must be renewed and
  the whole network of multifunctional sensors
• PAN, the technological challenge would consist in
  miniaturization, low power sources, wirelessness,
  providing security, developing biosensors.
• The scenario is based on three levels of
  communication networks.
• Level 1 ex. PAN (person with person)
• Level 2 ex. VAN (networks with networks)
• Level 3 ex. WAN (level with level)

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S4 Annette and Solomon in the Ambient for Social
Learning

• Socio-political issues
• Educational modern trends include life-long
  learning or learning by doing.
• Learning is a social process and, additionally,
  one of essential social processes
• One of the main achievements of the ASL could be
  exceeding and removing learning and interacting
  obstacles set by numerous language and cultural
  backgrounds.

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S4 Annette and Solomon in the Ambient for Social
Learning

• Business environment
• 3D visualization technology including real-time
  rendering of video and projection of holographs.
• Manipulation of sound fields so that people can
  lead individual conversations in shared place
• Opportunities for multi-channel (web-TV, mobile)
  services and for online storage, re-processing
  and retrieval of content on demand
• Multimedia developers creating user-friendly
  toolboxes for self-production of content
• Multi-skilled project-oriented teams that are
  available to work with grassroots groups, firms
  or traditional educational providers.

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S4 Annette and Solomon in the Ambient for Social
Learning

• Technological issues
• Ability to record and review experiences of past
  and present participants.
• A network for communication and a collective
  corporate memory must be provided
• Some other requirements
• Recognition- tracing, Interactive commitment,
• Natural language and speech interfaces
• Projection facilities for light and sound fields
• Reflexive learning systems
• Knowledge management tools

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Structuring differentials between the scenarios
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Three main sustainability dimensions

• Personal physical and psychological
  sustainability
• Can AmI reduce (mental) health risks from
  information stress, virtual identities and
  information overload?
• Socio-economic sustainability
• digital divides emerging from unequal
  developments and access to the AmI infrastructure
  
• Environmental sustainability
• recycling and reclamation of electronic waste