| Intelligent Spaces: The Application of Pervasive ICT 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Steventon, Alan (Editor), Wright, Steve (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1846280028 ISBN-13: 9781846280023 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2006 Annotation: This book sets out a vision of ???intelligent spaces??? and describes the progress that has been made towards realisation. The context for Intelligent Spaces (or iSpaces) is the world where ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and sensor systems disappear as they become embedded into physical objects and the spaces in which we live, work and play. The ultimate vision is that this embedded technology provides us with intelligent and contextually relevant support, augmenting our lives and experience of the physical world in a benign and non-intrusive manner. The ultimate vision is challenging, there are technical barriers, especially in the integration of complex systems and in the creation of intelligent software, as well as social and economic barriers. This book explores what is technically possible and what users will need for the future. Academic and industrial researchers in Computer Science, IT and Communications, as well as practitioners will find this key reading as it delivers practical and implementable current research. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Technology - Computers | Networking - Hardware |
| Dewey: 004 |
| Series: Computer Communications and Networks |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.16" W x 9.22" (1.42 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book sets out a vision ofpervasive IT through intelligent spaces and describes some ofthe progress that has been made towards its realisation. The context for intelligent spaces (or iSpaces) is the world where information and communication technology (lCT) disappears as it becomes embedded into physical objects and the spaces in which we live and work. The ultimate vision is that this embedded technology provides us with intelligent and contextually relevant support, augmenting our lives and our experience of the physical world in a benign and non- intrusive manner. The enormous advances in hardware, system design, and software that are being achieved enable. this vision. In particular, the performance advances and cost reductions in hardware components - processors, memory, storage, and communications - are making it possible to embed intelligence and communications ability into lower cost objects. The Internet is a living experiment in building complex, distributed systems on a global scale. In software, there have been solid advances in creating systems that can deal with complexities on the scale required to interact with human activity, in limited domains at least. The ultimate vision is challenging, and there are many obstacles to its realisation. |