Identifying aspects of Ambient Intelligence through a review of recent developments

Abstract

It has already been realized by the scientific and technical community that a new form of technology is going to lead the future technological developments. This technology will be more humancentric and will be more and more "hidden" within everyday-life objects. It will be smarter, personalized, pervasive and ubiquitous. This technology includes what is called Ambient Intelligence (AmI). In this paper, we identify the main aspects of AmI through a review of the recent developments that have been achieved in these aspects of AmI and Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmIEs), as well as point out the problems yet to be solved and the visions of the future.

The Artificial Moral Advisor. The “Ideal Observer” Meets Artificial Intelligence

“…Often such technologies are based on ambient intelligence, i.e., a form of artificial intelligence that mainly works through “context awareness” (Curran 2011 ). In other words, it can “recognize and comprehend” the physical entities of the environmental and user’s context by modeling them through digital representations and continuous interpretation and classification of the information represented, and it can “respond” through interaction with humans in order to define and serve specific requirements (Charalampidou et al 2012 ).…”

Geometric Environment Modeling System

“…10 Open Dynamics Engine: http://www.ode.org Charalampidou et al (2012), there are currently no interfaces to connect or share different environmental models of different entities, although all systems with intersecting working areas would benefit from it.…”

Web-Based Tools for House Automation

“…Other three concepts are also developed and dedicated to this work: demand response that is defined as real-time pricing, according to supply conditions [2]; energy-aware in smart homes that exploits this capability to schedule electrical-related tasks in houses execution [3]; policy interaction for rules in smart homes for detecting interactions among user policies [4]. Another concept is called Ambient Intelligence that defines "the vision of a technology that will become invisibly embedded in our natural surroundings, present whenever we need it, enabled by simple and effortless interactions, attuned to all our senses, adaptive to users and context-sensitive, and autonomous" [5].…”

“…The today's emerging technologies such as the Internet-of-Things, sensors, and web-based sensors, communication networks are part of the implementations that are used in conventionally called domotics. They provide many home services to facilitate the household appliances or home cares, for improving the day-by-day lifestyles [5,6].…”