Smart Surroundings Development and demonstration of core architectures and frameworks for future ambient systems.

Ambient systems are networked embedded systems integrated with everyday environments and supporting people in their activities. These systems will create smart surroundings for people to facilitate and enrich daily lifeand increase productivity at work.

The approach to enable ambient systems depends on highly distributed, reliable, secured information systems that can evolve and adapt to radical changes in their environment, delivering information services that adapt to the people and the services that use them. These distributed systems must easily and naturally integrate devices, ranging from tiny sensors, and actuators to hand-held information appliances. Such devices will be connected primarily by short-range wireless networks, as well as by high band-width local backbones.

In order to meaningfully bridge the gap “people interacting with ambient systems” and “the design of the infrastructure of ambient systems”, the research effort will span the spectrum ranging from scenarios of use through the architectural design and provision of platforms and tools. The scenarios explored in the well-being setting is not focused on selected applications but on the complex situations that arise from interaction of divers stakeholders. The work of Roessingh Research and Development is aimed at promoting a healthy life-style at work; stress and physical activity management. Work is/will be performed on conceptual analysis of healthy behaviour, on observation of people’s everyday life style, on prototyping and evaluation.

For more information: http://www.smart-surroundings.nl/

This project has been sponsored by:

BSIK program of the Dutch Ministry of Economical Affairs (Senter)

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