Ambient intelligence: Experiments on sustainability awareness

Abstract

Computer systems are designed to help solve problems presented to our society. New terms such as computational sustainability and internet of things present new fields where traditional information systems are being applied and implemented on the environment to maximize data output and our ability to understand how to improve them. The advancement of richer and interconnected devices has created opportunities to gather new data sources from the environment and use it together with other pre-existent information in new reasoning processes. This work describes a sensorial platform designed to help raise awareness towards sustainability and energy efficient systems by exploring the concepts of ambient intelligence and fusion of data to create monitoring and assessment systems. The presented platform embodies the effort to raise awareness of user actions on their impact towards their sustainability objectives.