Meeting people's needs in a fully interoperable domotic environment

The key idea underlying many Ambient Intelligence (AmI) projects and applications is context awareness, which is based mainly on their capacity to identify users and their locations. The actual computing capacity should remain in the background, in the periphery of our awareness, and should only mov...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2012-06, Vol.12 (6), p.6802-6824
Main Authors: Miori, Vittorio, Russo, Dario, Concordia, Cesare
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Ambient intelligence
Ambient Intelligent
Artificial Intelligence
association rules
Automation
Computation
data mining
Devices
DomoNet
domotics
Environment
Health Services Needs and Demand
home environment
Houses
Humans
Intelligence
Interoperability
machine learning
Middleware
Privacy
Recognition
Reproducibility of Results
Sensors
Smart houses
User needs
Video equipment
web services
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Summary:The key idea underlying many Ambient Intelligence (AmI) projects and applications is context awareness, which is based mainly on their capacity to identify users and their locations. The actual computing capacity should remain in the background, in the periphery of our awareness, and should only move to the center if and when necessary. Computing thus becomes 'invisible', as it is embedded in the environment and everyday objects. The research project described herein aims to realize an Ambient Intelligence-based environment able to improve users' quality of life by learning their habits and anticipating their needs. This environment is part of an adaptive, context-aware framework designed to make today's incompatible heterogeneous domotic systems fully interoperable, not only for connecting sensors and actuators, but for providing comprehensive connections of devices to users. The solution is a middleware architecture based on open and widely recognized standards capable of abstracting the peculiarities of underlying heterogeneous technologies and enabling them to co-exist and interwork, without however eliminating their differences. At the highest level of this infrastructure, the Ambient Intelligence framework, integrated with the domotic sensors, can enable the system to recognize any unusual or dangerous situations and anticipate health problems or special user needs in a technological living environment, such as a house or a public space.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s120606802