Intelligent Environments
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Intelligent Environments Conclusions and Future Directions Intelligent Environments
Definitions • Intelligent • Able to acquire and apply knowledge • Knowledge is more than data • Environment • Surroundings • Intelligent Environment • An environment able to acquire and apply knowledge about you and your surroundings in order to improve your experience. Intelligent Environments
Projects • Academic • UTA MavHome Smart Home • Georgia Tech Aware Home • MIT Intelligent Room • MIT House_n • Stanford Interactive Workspaces • UC Boulder Adaptive House • Commercial • IBM Smart Home • Microsoft Easy Living Intelligent Environments
Major Topics • Sensors • Networking • Database • Prediction • Decision Making • Robotics • Privacy and Security Intelligent Environments
Sensors • Issues • Placement • Power • Interfacing • Control • Smart sensors • Local memory • Local processing • Communication Intelligent Environments
Networking • Wired • Phone line • Power line • New wire • Wireless • IEEE 802.11 • Bluetooth Intelligent Environments
Networking (cont.) • Service Discovery • Jini • UPnP • Communication • CORBA • Java-RMI • DCOM Intelligent Environments
Database • Storage requirements • Real-time sensor data • User data (esp. multimedia) • System information • Prediction and decision-making queries • Centralized vs. distributed • Sensor databases • Active databases • Push paradigm • Database triggers Intelligent Environments
Prediction • Predicting inhabitant and environment behavior • Sensor fusion and data relevance • Concept drift • IE-specific prediction • Sequence matching • Hidden Markov models • Episode discovery Intelligent Environments
Decision Making • IE as a rational agent • Choose action maximizing expected utility • States of IE • Utilities of states • Probability action will lead to state • Decision networks Intelligent Environments
Robotics • Robotics for IE • Autonomy • Adaptability • Human-machine interfacing Intelligent Environments
Privacy and Security • Physical and data security • Encryption • Firewalling • Biometrics • Degree of IE autonomy Intelligent Environments
Special Topics • Intelligent robotic sensor agents for environment monitoring • Intelligent vehicles • Personalization (e.g., television guides) • Context-aware applications • Intelligent agent infrastructures Intelligent Environments
Future Directions • Smart appliances • Plug-n-play everything (devices and software) • Ubiquitous/pervasive computing • Low-power, wireless, smart sensors • Low-power, wireless networks • Distributed, active databases Intelligent Environments
Future Directions • Prediction and decision-making in uncertain, data-rich environments • Distributed, hierarchical, self-organizing, agent-based architectures • Versatile robotics • Adaptive security and biometrics • Virtual reality Intelligent Environments
Future Directions • “Killer App” • Support for the handicapped and elderly • Generalization to larger environments • Communities • Office buildings • Shopping centers • Cities • Streets and highways Intelligent Environments
Intelligent Environments Thank you! Intelligent Environments