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Intelligent Environments

Conclusions and Future Directions

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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.

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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

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Major Topics Sensors Networking Database Prediction Decision Making Robotics Privacy and Security

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Sensors Issues

Placement Power Interfacing Control

Smart sensors Local memory Local processing Communication

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Networking Wired

Phone line Power line New wire

Wireless IEEE 802.11 Bluetooth

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Networking (cont.) Service Discovery

Jini UPnP

Communication CORBA Java-RMI DCOM

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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

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Prediction Predicting inhabitant and

environment behavior Sensor fusion and data relevance Concept drift IE-specific prediction

Sequence matching Hidden Markov models Episode discovery

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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

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Robotics Robotics for IE

Autonomy Adaptability Human-machine interfacing

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Privacy and Security Physical and data security

Encryption Firewalling Biometrics

Degree of IE autonomy

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Special Topics Intelligent robotic sensor agents

for environment monitoring Intelligent vehicles Personalization (e.g., television

guides) Context-aware applications Intelligent agent infrastructures

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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

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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

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Future Directions “Killer App”

Support for the handicapped and elderly Generalization to larger environments

Communities Office buildings Shopping centers Cities Streets and highways

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Intelligent Environments

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