IST Amigo Project Deliverable D 2 . 2 State of the art analysis including assessment of system architectures for ambient intelligence Public

This report presents state-of-the-art system architectures that serve as technological building blocks and background technologies for the Amigo system, which aims to enable ambient intelligence in the networked home environment. The Amigo project specifically aims to solve the main technological issues that endanger the usability of a networked home system in which traditionally separated domains (i.e., home automation, personal computing, consumer electronics and mobile communications) need to be effectively merged. The Amigo project then investigates solutions for the seamless integration and improvement of services from the four domains, offering home users easy, intelligent and meaningful interfaces and services. This report presents: The technological building blocks for the networked nodes of the home environment including wireless and stationary computing nodes, home networking technologies, IP-based protocols, real-time protocols, and operating systems. April 11, 20005 Public 1/81