Ambient Intelligence

EJA ROLL NO:12 S7

Ambient Intelligence

Ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Intelligent User Friendly Interfaces Better integration of technology into our environment, so that people can freely and interactively use it Seamless (and secure) delivery of services and applications

Motivation
Context servers

interoperable Machine processable Security & privacy

Characteristics of AmI
Awareness
ability of the system to locate and recognize objects and people, their locations, and their needs

Intelligence
allows the system to analyze the context, adapt to people that live in it, learn from their behavior, and eventually to recognize as well as show emotion

Adaptable
learn about the environment and the people within it in order to optimize their own behavior

User Context

Any information that can be used to characterize the user and his situation

Coming from sensors

Temporal and spatial location Environmental attributes Resources nearby Physiological measurements Schedule, agenda Social context

User preferences and profile

An Example Scenario (from ISTAG)

Manoj lands to an airport in a Far Eastern Country The immigration officer replaced by a device

Through its sensors, detects identities, performs visa and passport control (using Manojs P-Com)

A rented car waiting for him at the exit His Hotel has been reserved by his personal software agent

Issues to be considered

Identity information should be understandable by any authorized device

Context servers
queries

Identity information
Passport and visa information Machine processable Interoperable Context Ontologies should be developed

P-Com

Issues to be considered

Privacy

Access should be limited to authorized entities The user should be able to state how much information to disclose and to whom Immigration device

Location, visa, passport information

Role or personal identity based privacy mechanisms

System Architecture

Context Ontology

Have formal specification

Machine processable Can be queried through query languages Captures consensual knowledge

Define shared conceptualizations

Enable knowledge sharing in an open and dynamic distributed system

Context Ontology

Define all of the concepts in a taxonomic hierarchy

Define the properties and allowed values Define the relationships among the classes Provides a means for intelligent agents to reason about the contextual information

Web Ontology Language OWL

OWL is a semantic markup language being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium

for publishing and sharing ontologies derived from DAML+OIL

Exploiting User Context for Web Service Discovery

For selecting services in a contextsensitive manner

Services should be discovered based on their semantic descriptions Query the context of the user Maps the preferences of the user with the properties of the services advertised

Agents should

An Example Travel Scenario

TravelService Transportation Service AirTransportation

Accommodation Service

Entertainment Service

ReserveAFlight

BuyATicket

Properties of originatingFrom destinationTo paymentMethod the Generic Service Class

ADVANTAGES

REDUCING THE HUMAN INTERACTION & EFFORT BE USER FRIENDLY MAKE BETTER UTILISATION OF TIME REDUCE TRANSPORTAION ENHANCE PRIVACY

Applications
A variety of technologies can be used to enable AMIenvironments such as. RFID ICT implant Sensors Software agents Affective computing Nanotechnology Biometrics

Conclusions

In computing, ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. There is a need for strong mechanisms for storing and processing context Ambient intelligence is a vision on the future of consumer electronics, telecommunications and computing

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