The EAR-IT project relies on 2 test-beds to demonstrate the use of acoustic data in smart environments: the smart city SmartSantander test-bed and the smart building HobNet test-beds. In this paper, we take a benchmarking approach to qualify the various EAR-IT test-bed based on WSN and IoT nodes with IEEE 802.15.4 radio technology. We will highlight the main performance bottlenecks when it come...

Semantic technologies are currently spreading across several application domains as a reliable and consistent mean to address challenges related to organization, manipulation, visualization and exchange of data and knowledge. Different roles are actually played by these techniques depending on the application domain, on the timing constraints, on the distributed nature of applications, and so o...

In recent years, the increased provision of bundled products and services has become an increasingly relevant economic trend for manufacturers in achieving competitive advantage. The project environment has not been left untouched by this economic trend, in particular throughout the delivery of integrated project-service solutions in all project life cycle stages. Innovative value offerings enc...

In this paper we describe a system, called GAIN (Group Adapted Interaction for News), which selects background information to be displayed in public shared environments according to preferences of the group of people present in there. In ambient intelligence contexts, we cannot assume that the system will be able to know every users physically present in the environment and therefore to access ...

Smart buildings and autonomous vehicles are expected to see rapid growth and adoption in the coming decades. Americans spend over 90% of their lives in buildings or automobiles, meaning that 90% of their lives could be spent interfacing with intelligent environments. EMBR Labs has developed EMBR Wave, a wearable thermoelectric system, for introducing thermal sensation as a connected mode of int...

There is a growing interest in ‘Smart Grid’ technologies in both industry and academic circles. Few attempts have been made to develop a written specification consummated with standards agreed upon by members of both coteries, due to lack of government support. Utilities in the state of California are obligated, by state legislature, to create a more: efficient, reliable, and intelligent electr...

IST-DISCREET (Discreet Service Provision in Smart Environments) is an European STREP project, started on December 2005, and being developed in the frame of the sixth program framework (FP6). Goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the main project objectives and of the proposed technical approach. A specific technical solution, namely the pseudonym system proposed in the project, is ill...

Telecommunication functions of electronic devices have been and will continue to increase. The so called smart community, a society in which more advanced communications technology is used, will enable life to be increasingly convenient. Thus, telecommunications will become more and more important. However, when such functions become unavailable for some reason, it will negatively impact societ...

Indian giant power system is facing the various problems. Due to these problems, the growth of electricity market is very slow. The present grid system in this country is incapable to handle these discrepancies. To handle these discrepancies and other typical snags in power system, there is a need to complete automation. Viewing these problems Smart Grid technologies is to be introduce/embedded...

Co-working is a new trend for integrating service robots into smart environments, such as homes or assembly lines of manufactories. Modern sensitive robots recognize human beings in their neighborhood and stop when touched, so that they can be integrated into their environment much better as in the past. Robots come out of the cage, and this creates a lot of opportunities for scalable automatio...