Ubiquitous sensing for smart and aware environments

Author

Essa, Irfan A.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

7

Issue

5

fYear

2000

fDate

10/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

49

Abstract

As computing technology continues to become increasingly pervasive and ubiquitous, we envision the development of environments that can sense what we are doing and support our daily activities. In this article, we outline our efforts toward building such environments and discuss the importance of a sensing and signal-understanding infrastructure that leads to awareness of what is happening in an environment and how it can best be supported. Such an infrastructure supports both high- and low-end data transmission and processing, while allowing for detailed interpretation, modeling and recognition from sensed information. We are currently prototyping several aware environments to aid in the development and study of such sensing and computation in real-world settings

Keywords

computer vision; data communication; intelligent sensors; mobile computing; software prototyping; aware environments; daily activities; high-end data processing; high-end data transmission; interpretation; low-end data processing; low-end data transmission; modeling; pervasive computing technology; prototyping; recognition; sensed information; sensing infrastructure; signal-understanding infrastructure; smart environments; ubiquitous computing; ubiquitous sensing; Computers; Data mining; Instruments; Intelligent sensors; Multimodal sensors; Pervasive computing; Prototypes; Signal processing; Space technology; Ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Personal Communications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9916

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/98.878538

Filename

878538