Intelligence
Ambient intelligence and autonomous control are not part of the original
concept of the Internet of things. Ambient intelligence and autonomous
control do not necessarily require Internet structures, either. However,
there is a shift in research (by companies such as Intel) to integrate
the concepts of IoT and autonomous control, with initial outcomes
towards this direction considering objects as the driving force for
autonomous IoT.
In the future, the Internet of Things may be a non-deterministic and
open network in which auto-organized or intelligent entities (web
services, SOA components) and virtual objects (avatars) will be
interoperable and able to act independently (pursuing their own
objectives or shared ones) depending on the context, circumstances or
environments. Autonomous behavior through the collection and reasoning
of context information as well as the object’s ability to detect changes
in the environment (faults affecting sensors) and introduce suitable
mitigation measures constitutes a major research trend, clearly needed
to provide credibility to the IoT technology. Modern IoT products and
solutions in the marketplace use a variety of different technologies to
support such context-aware automation, but more sophisticated forms of
intelligence are requested to permit sensor units and intelligent
cyber-physical systems to be deployed in real environments.