Thematic Area 2 (TA2 / WG2): Ambient computing and communication Environments

The evolution towards a future information and knowledge society is characterised by the development of personalized individual, as well as collective, services that exploit new qualities of infrastructures situated in smart environments and based on a range of ubiquitous and pervasive communication networks providing ambient computing at multiple levels. The underlying vision of pervasive and ambient computing assumes very large numbers of "invisible" small computing devices embedded into the physical environment. They will interact with and being used by multiple users in a wide range of dynamically changing situations. In addition, this heterogeneous collection of devices will be supported by an “infrastructure” of intelligent sensors (and actuators) embedded in our homes, offices, hospitals, public spaces, leisure environments providing the raw data (and active responses) needed for a wide range of smart services.