Intelligent Environments1 Conclusions and Future Directions

Intelligent Environments2 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 Environments3 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 Environments4 Major Topics Sensors Networking Database Prediction Decision Making Robotics Privacy and Security

Intelligent Environments5 Sensors Issues Placement Power Interfacing Control Smart sensors Local memory Local processing Communication

Intelligent Environments6 Networking Wired Phone line Power line New wire Wireless IEEE Bluetooth

Intelligent Environments7 Networking (cont.) Service Discovery Jini UPnP Communication CORBA Java-RMI DCOM

Intelligent Environments8 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 Environments9 Prediction Predicting inhabitant and environment behavior Sensor fusion and data relevance Concept drift IE-specific prediction Sequence matching Hidden Markov models Episode discovery

Intelligent Environments10 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 Environments11 Robotics Robotics for IE Autonomy Adaptability Human-machine interfacing

Intelligent Environments12 Privacy and Security Physical and data security Encryption Firewalling Biometrics Degree of IE autonomy

Intelligent Environments13 Special Topics Intelligent robotic sensor agents for environment monitoring Intelligent vehicles Personalization (e.g., television guides) Context-aware applications Intelligent agent infrastructures

Intelligent Environments14 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 Environments15 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 Environments16 Future Directions “Killer App” Support for the handicapped and elderly Generalization to larger environments Communities Office buildings Shopping centers Cities Streets and highways

Intelligent Environments17 Intelligent Environments Thank you!