In Intelligent Environments, countless connected embedded devices become the intelligence to connect us with all things in our environment. Whether it is at home, in cars, in hospitals, at the bottom of our oceans, in our forests, or in our own clothes, we will soon be connected everywhere we go. This book, which will be useful for developers, architects and strategist alike, highlights challenges that must be addressed to execute this vision.

On one hand, the embedded systems have fascinated us by permeating every area of our lives and automating the functionality of any device they embed themselves in. On the other hand, the innovations driven by Intel and rest of the industry have grown in an unprecedented manner. So the tantalizing question is what sort of technology utopia might be created by the marriage of the two? Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environments: A Journey through Evolving Technologies provides the answer to just this question by detailing a vision of intelligent environments in terms of 101 scenarios.

The book lays out a vision of intelligent environments and how it is fueled by Intel® core™ microarchitecture, Intel platforms, and technology advancements in areas of wireless sensor networks, 6LoWPAN, parasitic power harvesting, intelligent transportation, intelligent health, autonomous robots, and more intelligent environments of the future. It details the enabling technologies and the challenges, but also presents a roadmap of how to get there.

"Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environments: A Journey through Evolving Technologies is a must-read for every student, scholar and soothsayer of the convergence phenomenon. I would highly recommend this book for system developers, enterprise management professionals, platform architects and, above all, for techno-entrepreneurs. The author has brought together an astonishing array of ideas in one place to stimulate thought, action and future vision."

- Subramaniam Ganesan, Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

"In her new book Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environments: A Journey through Evolving Technologies, Dr. Satwant Kaur reveals that the technologies required to create an exciting world where intelligent environments enhance all aspects of daily life are not visions of the future, but exist today. With the application of human imagination and initiative, the possibilities are limitless."

- John Stafford, Director, Customer Connectivity, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute

"Satwant Kaur is a visionary seeing far into the future. Yet, she describes the more than 100 applications made possible by Intel's embedded processors and platforms, for you to take your design to higher levels of intelligence today! This book belongs at the desk of every system developer and designer for decades to come."

- Desikan Bharathan, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

"After reading Dr. Kaur's book Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environment: A Journey through Evolving Technologies, I followed my life for a day. I was truly amazed to find how intelligent embedded systems have taken over my life. The mobile phone/device, Internet connected TV, PS3, Satellite receiver, home appliances, automobile components, GPS systems, location mapping, Traffic control, RFIDs, EMRs, medical devices, etc. What if a hacker gained control of my pacemaker and decided to blackmail me? I am sure in due time these intelligent embedded systems will also have an attitude problem. Dr. Kaur has brought together an astonishing array of ideas in one place to stimulate thought, action, and future vision. She takes the readers on a very insightful journey."

- Deepak Mohan, Sr. Vice President, Symantec Corporation

"Many future gazers would be satisfied with proposing a single vision for the future but Dr. Kaur appears to be afflicted by visions, such is the breadth in scope of the technological possibilities that she highlights in this 'Journey Through Evolving Technologies.' What is perhaps more staggering is each possible future that Dr. Kaur discusses is grounded in solid technical thinking. Dr. Kaur considers not only the what, but also the how, leveraging Intel's war chest of technology innovation to hypothesize how her many visions of the future could become reality. I challenge the reader to find another analysis with the range of imagination to include 'robot swarms in the blood stream,' 'cargo management by smart railcars,' and the potential sensor and processor technology required to realize these possibilities."

- Parker Moss, Head of Strategy , GSMA

"The Internet of Things will have yet unimaginable devices connect to the network. The scale of these networks will only be possible with technology innovations in software, systems and transitioning embedded systems to intelligent environments. This book discusses some of the applications in the Internet of Things and enabling technologies.

- Kelly Ahuja, SVP/GM, Chief Architect Service Provider Business, Cisco

Dr. Satwant Kaur has provided strong technology leadership at some of the world’s largest technology companies. In her most recent position, Dr. Kaur is a platform strategist in the Intel Architecture Group at Intel. Prior to joining Intel, Satwant was the CTO of the Emerging Technologies Group at TIBCO Software. She was also Director of Development at Symantec, and Chief Technology Architect of Quest Software. She was a research faculty member in the Computer Science Department of IIT, Delhi. Satwant served on the Advisory Board at Panacea Software, and was also a consultant on the Thomson-Reuters Insight Expert Network. Satwant's pioneering inventions include the first small scale industries capacitor manufacturing robot, a root cause analysis and event correlation engine, reduced interoperability (RI) technologies for architectures, validation, and testing. She holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her M.S. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Mobile Internet Protocols are from Oakland University, MI, USA.