AMIGO - Amigo Ambient Intelligence for the networked home environment (FP6-IST) (2004-09-01 - 2008-02-29) (»add to infobox)

Harmke DE GROOT, Alfonso GARATE ORBE, Gilles PRIVAT, Norbert STREITZ, Natividad HERRASTI, Valerie ISSARNY, Sergio DI MARCA, Gianna TSAKOU, Mark GILBERT, Henk EERTINK, Efstathios D. SYKAS, Javier ARRIBAS DE FRUTOS, Reinhold HAEB-UMBACH, Pekka KOSKELA, Geke DEETMAN, N. N., N. N., N. N., N. N., N. N., N. N., N. N., N. N.

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V. (NL414 - Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant) (Netherlands), FAGOR ELECTRODOMESTICOS S. COOP (ES212 - Guipúzcoa) (Spain), FRANCE TELECOM SA (FR101 - Paris) (France), FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (DE212 - München, Kreisfreie Stadt) (Germany), IKERLAN S. COOP (ES212 - Guipúzcoa) (Spain), INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE (FR103 - Yvelines) (France), ITALDESIGN - GIUGIARO S.P.A. (ITC11 - Torino) (Italy), KNOWLEDGE S.A. (GR - Greece) (Greece), EUROPAEISCHES MICROSOFT INNOVATIONS CENTER GMBH (DEA21 - Aachen, Kreisfreie Stadt) (Germany), STICHTING TELEMATICA INSTITUUT (NL213 - Twente) (Netherlands), INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS (GR300 - Attiki) (Greece), TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA UNIPERSONAL (ES300 - Madrid) (Spain), UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN (DEA47 - Paderborn) (Germany), HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (FI181 - Uusimaa) (Finland), PHILIPS INTERNATIONAL B.V. (NL414 - Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant) (Netherlands), SINGULARLOGIC SA (GR300 - Attiki) (Greece), ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ELECTRONIQUE, INFORMATIQUE ET RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS DE BORDEAUX (FR612 - Gironde) (France), UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX I (FR612 - Gironde) (France), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON (FR716 - Rhône) (France), UNIVERSITE HENRI POINCARE NANCY 1 (FR411 - Meurthe-et-Moselle) (France), UNIVERSITE NANCY II (FR411 - Meurthe-et-Moselle) (France), INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE LORRAINE (FR411 - Meurthe-et-Moselle) (France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (FR101 - Paris) (France)

The networked home environment leads to many new opportunities, the most important one is Ambient Intelligence. However, general end-user acceptance of home networking is not yet in place. To get this and fast market introduction two elements need to be resolved:(i) Installation and use of the networked home system must be simple and user-friendly, that is the usability of the system must be high(ii) Attractive services must be present which clearly offer an advantage over what is offered by today is non-networked systems. Many of these new services will use context and user information in a way that is not possible in present non-networked systems. They are called intelligent user services as they make the system `intelligent' from the end-user view.The Amigo project will focus on the usability of a networked home system by developing open, standardized, interoperable middleware. The developed middleware will guarantee automatic dynamic configuration of the devices and services within this home system by addressing autonomy and composability aspects. The second focus of the Amigo project will be on improving the end-user attractiveness of a networked home system by developing interoperable intelligent user services and application prototypes. The Amigo project will further support interoperability between equipment and services within the networked home environment by using standard technology when possible and by making the basic middleware (components and infrastructure) and intelligent user services available as open source software together with architectural rules for everyone to use. The Amigo project is a huge step towards general introduction of the networked home and towards Ambient Intelligence by solving the main technological issues that endanger the usability of a networked home system, as well as creating clear end-user benefits by introducing intelligent user services and attractive prototype applications.

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