Intelligent Spaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Intelligent Spaces — The Vision,the Opportunities, and the Barriers

   • S Wright, A Steventon

   Pages 1-17

3. The Socio-Economic Impact of Pervasive Computing — Intelligent Spaces and the Organisation of Business

   • M H Lyons, R Ellis, J M M Potter, D A M Holm, R Venousiou

   Pages 19-35

4. No Pervasive Computing Without Intelligent Systems

   • S G Thompson, B Azvine

   Pages 37-54

5. The Supply Chain

   • D Luckett

   Pages 55-63

6. Care in the Community

   • S Brown, N Hine, A Sixsmith, P Garner

   Pages 65-80

7. Pervasive Home Environments

   • P Bull, R Limb, R Payne

   Pages 81-91

8. Traffimatics — Intelligent Co-operative Vehicle Highway Systems

   • G Bilchev, D Marston, N Hristov, E Peytchev, N Wall

   Pages 93-108

9. Mixed-Reality Applications in Urban Environments

   • J Bulman, B Crabtree, A Gower, A Oldroyd, J Sutton

   Pages 109-124

10. A Sensor Network for Glaciers

    • K Martinez, A Riddoch, J Hart, R Ong

    Pages 125-139

11. Co-operation in the Digital Age — Engendering Trust in Electronic Environments

    • A Seleznyov, M O Ahmed, S Hailes

    Pages 141-156

12. Maintaining Privacy in Pervasive Computing — Enabling Acceptance of Sensor-based Services

    • A Soppera, T Burbridge

    Pages 157-177

13. RFID Security and Privacy — Issues, Standards, and Solutions

    • A Soppera, T Burbridge, D Molnar

    Pages 179-198

14. Ambient Technology — Now You See It, Now You Don’t

    • R Payne, B MacDonald

    Pages 199-217

15. Integrated Sensor Networks for Monitoring the Health and Well-Being of Vulnerable Individuals

    • D J T Heatley, R S Kalawsky, I Neild, P A Bowman

    Pages 219-237

16. Segmentation and Tracking of Multiple Moving Objects for Intelligent Video Analysis

    • L-Q Xu, J L Landabaso, B Lei

    Pages 239-255

17. An Attention-based Approach to Content-based Image Retrieval

    • A Bamidele, F W M Stentiford, J Morphett

    Pages 257-272

18. Eye Tracking as a New Interface for Image Retrieval

    • O K Oyekoya, F W M Stentiford

    Pages 273-286

19. The Implications of Pervasive Computing on Network Design

    • R Briscoe

    Pages 287-322

20. Autonomic Computing for Pervasive ICT — A Whole-System Perspective

    • M Shackleton, F Saffre, R Tateson, E Bonsma, C Roadknight

    Pages 323-335

This book sets out a vision ofpervasive IT through intelligent spaces and describes some ofthe progress that has been made towards its realisation. The context for intelligent spaces (or iSpaces) is the world where information and communication technology (lCT) disappears as it becomes embedded into physical objects and the spaces in which we live and work. The ultimate vision is that this embedded technology provides us with intelligent and contextually relevant support, augmenting our lives and our experience of the physical world in a benign and non­ intrusive manner. The enormous advances in hardware, system design, and software that are being achieved enable. this vision. In particular, the performance advances and cost reductions in hardware components - processors, memory, storage, and communications - are making it possible to embed intelligence and communications ability into lower cost objects. The Internet is a living experiment in building complex, distributed systems on aglobal scale. In software, there have been solid advances in creating systems that can deal with complexities on the scale required to interact with human activity, in limited domains at least. The ultimate vision is challenging, and there are many obstacles to its realisation.

• Ambient Intelligence
• Collaborative Systems
• Information Technology (IT)
• Intelligent Spaces
• Segment
• Standards
• Ubiquitous Computing
• computer science
• data analysis
• integrated circuit
• intelligent systems
• monitor
• privacy
• security
• trust

Intelligent spaces : the application of pervasive ICT (Computer Communications
and Networks)
Steventon A., Wright S., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2005. 438 pp.
Type: Book
Date Reviewed: Mar 16 2006
Information and communication technology (ICT) has been around for several years. It
improves the way we compute and communicate, and yet human lives have remained
essentially the same. However, this is about to change. As this book explains, every facet
of human endeavor will be affected and changed (for the better, we hope) by pervasive
ICT, referred to here as intelligent spaces (iSpaces).
The book consists of 24 chapters written by different authors. The topics can be roughly
divided into five parts. The first part introduces the basics of iSpaces: what they are, their
impact, and the science and technology needed behind them. The second part briefly
explains several applications of iSpaces, ranging from supply chain,home, and community
environment to the monitoring of highway traffic and glaciers. The third part discusses
trust, privacy, and security issues in iSpaces. The fourth part is oriented more toward
technology, discussing several implementations of iSpaces. The final part examines the
digital infrastructure that will need to be there in order for iSpaces to work. In general, this
book is well edited and each chapter is concise. However, 24 chapters are a lot to digest
and perhaps the fourth part could have been omitted without affecting the value of the
book too much.
The intended audience for this book is not clear. If meant for the general public, then the
authors could perhaps have focused more on the social impact and changes iSpaces will
bring. Color images would also help to engage readers.
One final question comes to mind: are iSpaces always good for people? Have any disasters
occurred in the past due to pervasive (or some may say invasive) ICT? A chapter or two
discussing real examples of the downside of iSpaces would help this book to be more
complete and insightful.

• Judal Associates Ltd, UK

  Alan Steventon

• BT Group, Ipswich, UK

  Steve Wright

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