Case Study of Middleware Infrastructure for Ambient Intelligence Environments
Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Springer, New York, (2010)DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_9
Abstract
In ambient intelligence environments, computers and sensors are embedded in our daily lives massively. This should not be taken in the narrow-minded sense of a computer on every desk. Rather, computers will be embedded in everyday objects augmenting them with information processing capabilities. This kind of embedding would be discreet and unobtrusive: The computers would disappear from our perception, leaving us free to concentrate on the task at hand---unlike today, where a majority of users perceives computers as getting in the way of their work.
