Ambient Intelligence Vision: A Perspective

It is time to put in practice the old visionary scenarios of AmI through real achievements. For that, it is necessary to concentrate in detailed and particular domains on solving all the past promises. UCAmI is an AmIcommunity that has been organizing AmI events in Spain for the last 6 years. In such events, researchers from Spain and other countries such as Spain has organized all these events. From this community, ten papers have been selected to represent this multidisciplinary field of research. In this special issue, authors show their advances in aspects like Ambient Assisted Living or academic conference environments. Other authors deal with more general AmI concepts, such as middleware, augmented objects or ubiquitous end–user interfaces. Finally, the concept of " Motion Intelligence " is examined. The special issue begins with an introductory paper that puts in context the aspects addressed by the other works and foresees the evolution of the still promising AmI paradigm. " Ambient Intelligence: Beyond the Inspiring Vision " , José et al., reflect about the movement from AmI foundational vision to new trends around of its core concepts and, particularly, the notion of intelligence. These trends provide a more holistic view of AmI representing important contributions for achieving a real social impact. " An Agent-based Architecture for Developing Activity-Aware Systems for Assisting Elderly " , García-Vázquez et al., propose an integration of AmI into AAL scenarios by activity-aware computing. These smart environments are adapted to the human activities through autonomous agents for achieving an activity-aware system. Such system infers activities of the elderly, particularly, the management of medication. " An Ambient Assisted Living Platform Integrating RFID Data-on-Tag Care Annotations and Twitter " , López-de-Ipiña et al, explore the potential of storing and accessing to RFID care data through mobile phone. In this work, authors describe a NFC platform for supporting elderly caretaking with two main contributions: distributed mobile-mediated collection and propagation of care related data in caretaking scenarios and residents' relatives reporting through current Web 2.0 status