Ambient Intelligence (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)

Ambient intelligence is 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. High-quality information access and personalized content must be available to everybody, anywhere, and at any time. This book addresses ambient intelligence used to support human contacts and accompany an individual's path through the complicated modern world. From the technical standpoint, distributed electronic intelligence is addressed as hardware vanishing into the background. Devices used for ambient intelligence are small, low-power, low weight, and (very importantly) low-cost; they collaborate or interact with each other; and they are redundant and error-tolerant. This means that the failure of one device will not cause failure of the whole system. Since wired connections often do not exist, radio methods will play an important role for data transfer. This book addresses various aspects of ambient intelligence, from applications that are imminent since they use essentially existing technologies, to ambitious ideas whose realization is still far away, due to major unsolved technical challenges.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2005
Editors:	Werner Weber • Jan Rabaey • Emile H. L. Aarts
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	374
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-06281-0
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Nanotechnology Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Electronic devices & materials > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-06281-4
Barcode:	9783642062810

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