Talking plant: integrating plants behavior with ambient intelligence

Abstract

The aim of this work is to bring the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) (1) concept in a new level by introducing it to living organisms -plants. In this paper we provide a concrete scenario where an augmented plant, an ePlant can be incorporated in a ubiquitous computing environment in order to work together with other augmented objects, artifacts, in order to provide to the environment status of its condition. The paper presents the enabling infrastructure and the tools that are used to make such an application, and discusses on how we can make these augmented items to collaborate in order to create mixed societies of plants and artifacts.

Using ubiquitous computing technology to realise scalable intelligent agricultural environments

“…In the past we presented the enabling infrastructure and tools that are used to augment a plant and enable it to interact with AmI devices and artefacts [3]. The work presented in this paper extends the scope of this research and applies ubiquitous computing technology to support resource management in a plantation, which is considered as a collection of individual plants.…”

Soft Actuation for Home and Office

“…Yet it is probably unrealistic to assume that each object is individually enhanced for hint signaling. Incidental implementations of soft actuation can be found, e.g., in [9] where a blinking lamp hints the user to water a plant. However, to the best of our knowledge, soft actuation in the home or office has not yet been systematically investigated.…”