AIR&D
Joint Virtual Laboratory for Ambient Intelligence

OVERVIEW

The Ambient Intelligence R&D consortium (AIR&D) was founded in november 2001 by INRIA, Philips and Thomson Multimedia for a duration of five years. In 2006, Fraunhofer joined the consortium, which was renewed for another five years.

AIR&D is entirely devoted to the development of consumer applications in a very hot research field, ambient intelligence.

Ambient intelligence is a new field whose goal is to create an intelligent everyday space that could be used with the same immediacy as the electricity integrated into the walls of our houses is being used now. Sensors, interactive screens, input devices for speech, handwriting and tactile information will allow direct interaction with each house or outdoor device. The field is making up an increasing part of the framework programmes of the European Community and is also at the root of several initiatives with similar goals to AIR&D, especially in the United States. By fostering cooperation between industry and research organizations, these initiatives are contributing to the definition of projects on the development of standardizable software environments in this field. The specificity of the European approach, in comparison with its American counterparts, is its emphasis on consumer uses of ambient intelligence.

AIR&D is a project-driven collaboration in support of co-operative research in the ambient intelligence field. The consortium is open to other partners; for detail contact the AIR&D Steering Committee.

PARTNERS

INRIA

Philips

Thomson

Fraunhofer

CONTACT

Steering Committee:  Fred Boekhorst, Philips (Chair); Jean Pierre Banatre, INRIA; Patrick Baudelaire, THOMSON; Dieter Fellner, FRAUNHOFER
Executive Committee: Valerie Issarny, INRIA (Chair); Jean Gelissen, PHILIPS; Gary Donnan, THOMSON; Reiner Wichert, FRAUNHOFER
Web site - http://www.air-d.org

ONGOING PROJECTS

IST FP6  IP WASP -- Wirelessly Accessed Sensor Populations

PAST PROJECTS

IST OZONE -- New Technologies and Services for Emerging Nomadic Societies
IST FABRIC -- Federated Applications Based on Real-time Interacting Components

IST FP6 IP aceMedia -- Integrating Knowledge, Semantics and Content for User-centred Intelligent Media Services

IST FP6 IP Amigo -- Ambient Intelligence for the networked home environment

EVENTS

AIR&D Internal Workshops Page.

For more information: contact Air&D