The document discusses the evolution from the Internet to the Internet of Things (IoT) and the role of ambient intelligence, emphasizing the integration of everyday devices into smart environments that enhance personalization and responsiveness. It highlights challenges in data management, interoperability, and the need for intelligent systems that can self-adapt and learn from their surroundings. Key technologies in this evolving landscape include machine learning, the semantic web, and various innovative programming languages.

1. The Internet of Things,
Ambient Intelligence and the
Move Towards Intelligent
Systems
Santa Clara (IEEE Region 6) Event
September [28 or 29], 2012
Dr. George Vaněček, Jr.
Senior Principal Scientist, FutureWei Technologies, Inc.

2. Our Next 40 Minutes…
1. From Internet to Internet of Things (IoT)
and Beyond
2. Growing Intelligence in the IoT
3. Something about Sensing, Real-world
Perception, and Context-Awareness
4. The Tools of the trade
5. Key Takeaways
6. Key Technologies
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3. It has been a great ride
Let’s celebrate the Internet and the Web,
and everyone who had some small part in
them, on changing the world for the better!
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http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/Internet_History.htm
Now get ready for a far stranger ride, we
never imagined only a few decades ago.

4. Looking ahead to Future Internet/Web,
more Challenges remain…
Ubiquitous personalization and individualization
– Global Identity, Trust, Presence, Ownership, …
Portability between Silos
– Of Identities, Profiles, and Content
Information Overload
Ability to scale beyond human-only usage
– More addresses, storage/transport capacity, devices, …
Machines Understanding of Data
– Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured data
Interoperability with
– Open Data, Formats, and APIs
Context/Situation/Intent Awareness
Digital-world is becoming aware of the
physical-world: Internet of all things

5. Here comes the Internet of Things
The Internet will connect billions of people through
mobile and embedded smart devices.
Real-time communication and the accessibility to
any information on-line will enrich people and
machines; …
the Internet will connect everyday things integrated
into people’s every day lives.
– More equipment will be connected to the Internet than
people by a factor of 8 to 1 (50 Billion by 2020).
IoT will integrate many industry verticals
(e.g., healthcare, energy, transportations) into smart
*/city/building/home environments.
IoT will be centric to people’s needs and
every day existence.
Ambient Intelligence will expand.

6. IoT will bring us the
Smart Connected World
Smart
Homes
Smart
Buildings
Smart
Cars
Smart
Phones
Smart
City
Smart
Grid
Smart
Community
Smart
Highways

7. The rise of Ambient Intelligence:
The Personalization, Socialization, and
Real-world Awareness of the Internet
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8. So, What is Ambient Intelligence?
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AmI refers to electronic environments that are
sensitive and responsive to the presence of people
“In an Ambient Intelligence
world, devices work in
concert to support people in
carrying out their everyday
life activities, tasks and
rituals in easy, natural way
using information and
intelligence that is hidden in
the network connecting
these devices.” Source: Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia

9. The Challenge for the Industry
Create an infrastructure and middleware to
•enable heterogeneous devices to
interoperate,
•to perform assigned tasks, and
•be able to sense, perceive and react
appropriately
•with minimal human intervention
(Organic Computing).

10. From Existing to Intelligent
(Organic Computing) Systems
Need intelligence in systems that
dynamically adapt to their environment
and tasks, and are
Self-Configuring,
Self-Describing/Explaining,
Self-Healing,
Self-Protecting,
Self-Organizing,
Context-aware, and
Reactive and Proactive.

11. 2012: 1.2 Zetabytes (1.2 x 1021
)
Will grow 44 fold in the next Decade
Understanding Data is the
Starting Problem
Digital World: Deluge of Data
– Structured (some)
– Semi-structured (a bit more)
– Unstructured (huge amounts of)
 Audio, Video, text, PPT, Doc, …
Physical World: Deluge of Sensor Data
– Mostly Unstructured
Source: IDC

12. Increasing Intelligence in Systems
“Intelligent Systems will exist in environments they
sense and perceive, and from which they learn and
continually act to achieve their objectives.”
1. sense the real-world environments,
2. perceive the world using world
models,
3. adapt to different environments
and changes,
4. learn and build knowledge, and
5. act to control their environments.
They are computational systems that behave intelligently and rationally, to

13. AmI Pipeline to WisdomUnderstanding
Ability to Act
Information
Understand
Relationships
Knowledge
Understand
Patterns
Wisdom
Understand
Principles
Going from “What happened” to “What will happen”
Sense
Pervasive
sensing of
the
Environment
Perceive
Ability to
infer reln’s
from data
Act
Take an
action on
behalf of
the
humans
Learn
Learn form
patterns
and events
Adapt
Adapt
based on
needs
Data
Actuators and
On-Line Services
Anticipate
React
Execute
Unstructured, Semi-Struct., and
Struct’ed On-line and Sensor Data

14. Modern AI Explosion
1950 1980 1990 2010
AIPromisesandExpectations
1970
Decision Trees
Finite State Machines
Symbolic Reasoning
Logic Programming
General Problem Solver
Lisp Programming Language
Fraud Detection
Spam Filters
Search Engines
Natural Language Processing
Biometric, face/fingerprint detection
Robotic and Machine Translation
Speech Understanding
Business Intelligence
Collective Intelligence
Data Mining
Autonomous Systems
Machine Learning
Predictive Analysis
Pattern Matching
Sensing, Perception
Real-world Modeling
Behavior Modeling
…
Prolog Declarative Language
Neural Networks
Knowledge Representations
Commercial Expert Systems
Before 1990, classic AI goals were to
surpass human intelligence in
Language,
Reasoning, &
Abstract Problem Solving

15. Big Data and Data Science
Challenges
The challenges that are being solving for are:
– How to handle large data volumes?
– What data to store?
– How to analyze it?
– How to find significant data?
– How to use it to best advantage?
– How to visualize the data?
– When to analyze the data and when to apply its results?
Big data focuses primarily on statistically finding patterns,
trends, risks, and meaning in large amounts of collected
(unstructured) data from access logs, transactions, tweets,
emails, blogs, etc.
MapReduce
Hadoop
MongoDB

16. Machine Learning
Supervised Learning Algorithms
– K-Nearest Neighbor
– Naïve Bayes
– Support Vector Machines
– Decision Tree Induction
– Etc.
Unsupervised Learning Alg.s
– K-Means
– Expectation Maximization
– Etc.
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ML refers to a statistical suite of algorithms and
paradigms for finding patterns in data.
Training
Set {x}
Training
Algorithm:
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17. Machine Learning and AI Join Forces
Build systems that learn about self and environment
Create Situated Autonomous Decision Systems
– in dynamic environments over extended time
entrusted to handle complex tasks
Teach autonomous systems how to handle time,
change, and event streams.
Most systems do not handle time and changes well
Build Agents that exhibit life-long Machine Learning
(ML) rather than ML algorithms that learn one thing
only.
Create an interchangeable world knowledge for
Intelligent Systems.
Source: AAAI-96
From “What happened” to “What will happen”

18. AmI Requires ways to Model and
Represent the Worlds
with the understanding of
– Global Identities of people, places and
things,
– Multiple contexts,
– Situations,
– Intents,
– Trust based on evidence, and
– Behaviors and Habits,
Time and Histories.
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19. Taxonomies: explicit hierarchical specifications
of related categories/entities and rules to
differentiate them
Domain-Specific Ontologies: descriptions
of entities and their relationships
AmI Means for Building Models
of the Real-World
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Knowledge Bases: Graph-based entity-
relational knowledge repositories
Software Agents: Autonomous programs
sensing and performing various duties.
Engines that can analyze, reason, plan, predict
Semantic Web…

20. Semantic Web, the Web of Data and
the Meaning of Data
When the web can
understand content, it
will then better satisfy
people and machines
requests
A Web where the
context of content is
defined by data
A Web capable of
reading and
understanding
content and context
Tim Berners-Lee
Around 2006, the Semantic
Web emerged as an evolution
to Web 2.0 to be

21. Refocusing on Context-AwarenessRefocusing on Context-Awareness
Microformats
data embedded within XHTML
Metadata
statements about the
world in a manner that
machines can understand
unambiguously
When authors create
content, they will need
to define the context
that links the content
to their target
audience
Cross-linked and Defined
Data Models
Resource Description Framework
Defines and describes data and
Relations among them
Content
Tags
When machines
generate content, they
will also need to define
the context
Ontologies
OWL
Web Ontology Language

22. “The Internet is a Changing”
Key Takeaways
– The digital world is becoming more aware of
the real world
– Systems are becoming more intelligent and
autonomous
– Everyday things are getting connected
– Technology and computing is becoming
transparent
– Rapid innovation is driving major changes in
the IoT
– Ambient Intelligence and Organic Computing
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23. Key Technologies to Follow
Semantic Web
– Meta Data
– Ontologies and
Taxonomies
HTML5 and D3js
RTW and WebSockets
Data Fusion
– Processing
unstructured/semi-
structured Data
Machine Learning
Information/Knowledge
Repositories
– NoSQL Databases
– Graph Databases
– Knowledge Bases
Dynamic and Post-
Functional Languages
– Scala, Python,
Java 8, Groovy,
Haskell, Lisp,
Javascript, …
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Thank You
George.Vanecek@gmail.com
Santa Clara, CA