So, What is Ambient Intelligence??

Ambient Intelligence is a kind of intelligent, smart and sensitive electronic environment which response as per human presence and action. It’s a future vision of electronics, telecommunication, Networking and computing technologies. It’s an undeveloped technology which bring intelligence to our day to day life and makes our environment sensitive, adaptive and responsive to our activities, needs, gestures and emotions. Like Artificial Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence is also a large umbrella of technologies like ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, fog computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning computer vision, internet of things, networking, telecommunication, embedded systems, human computer interaction and vision but the only difference is that AI umbrella has same type of technologies like machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and pattern recognition. 

5 Steps of Ambient Intelligence 

Ambient Intelligence algorithms recognize the state of the environment and users with sensors which are embedded in environment, reasons about the data using a variety of Artificial Intelligence techniques, and act upon the environment using actuators and controllers in a way to achieve the intended goal.

There are five basic steps involved in the process of ambient intelligence as shown in Fig 1.

Fig 1: Steps involved in ambient Intelligence

Sensing: Sensors play an important role in ambient intelligence technology, they designed for real world and physical environment. Sensors detect a physical quantity or an activity and converting it into signals that can be read by computing device. It can be a single sensor, or a network of sensor embedded in the environment or in the body.

Reasoning: Reasoning provide a central computing and decision-making ability to the system. Reasoning use many AI algorithms for decision making, these algorithms should be intelligent, adaptive and responsive and should accomplish the following activities:

• Modelling
• Activity Selection and recognition
• Decision Making

Acting: This step connects reasoning with the real world. It is the action performed by the system after sensing and analysing the real-world data from environment like changing the colour of light based on mood, door and windows automation, home automation systems and notifications, alerts or information. It can also work like robotic assistant in nursing home and hotels.

Interacting: This step is involved because it makes Am easier to live with, it should define a human-centric computer interface that is natural and context aware where devices interact with humans.

Security and Privacy: The ambient intelligence environment should prevent the authorized external access to avoid exploitation of system vulnerabilities and its network. Aml environment should not risk the privacy of individuals. 

NEED OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE

In the past basic human need is food, cloth and shelter but as we are moving toward modern world more and more services are added in our life for better lifestyle and ambient intelligence play a major role in this. Ambient Intelligence agreement with this modern world of computing devices which spread everywhere in the environment and behave with human interaction. Ambient Intelligence helps in building a smart environment whereas AI helps in building smart devices or smart systems. It is also a large umbrella of technologies same as Artificial Intelligence. Ambient Intelligence will be best suited in different areas like smart city, smart homes, healthcare and smart cars.

As we are moving towards modern world there are some great advancement in science and technology which lead innovation and these innovations in some, or other way help in providing a better lifestyle for humans. In some old era basic human need is food, shelter and cloth but now many more services are added in these basic needs for the benefit of humanity and to ease the work for humans, for this services like hospitals, electricity, transport and  security are  added in  basic needs ,Now services like internet, smart home automation, smart doors or we can say there are smart and intelligent devices or bots are present today who work on-behalf of humans and as per humans instruction. We are making intelligent devices or bots which can survive in normal environment but in  we discuss how we can make a smart and intelligent environment which can response as per human presence and human action with the help of available technologies. There is a term which explain the whole concept of intelligent environment and technologies which help in making it is called Ambient Intelligence.