Ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to environments where smart devices, sensors, and AI-driven systems work seamlessly to enhance human interactions with their surroundings. Through the combination of real-time data, context-awareness, and adaptive learning, AmI enables environments to respond proactively to user needs, improving efficiency, comfort, and decision-making. However, since AmI systems are inherently human-centric and often operate autonomously, they must be designed with robust ethical, privacy, and safety considerations. Ensuring that these systems function reliably, fairly, and without harm is crucial, especially in sensitive domains like healthcare, security, and smart infrastructure. This work introduces a novel tool, conceptualized as an AmI Digital Twin, which allows developers to simulate or monitor AmI data streams, and develop and thoroughly test AmI applications before and during their real use. Built on a modular architecture leveraging technologies like React.js, Node.js, Kafka, Faust, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker, the platform ensures adaptability to different application environments, scalability, and ease of deployment. Besides the description of the tool itself, we provide some early validation results in common AmI tasks such as anomaly and concept drift detection. The tool is available in a public repository, and comes pre-packaged with a set of applications for AmI use-cases.

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MultiFlow: An Ambient Intelligence Digital Twin

  • Diogo Torres,
  • Eduardo Peixoto,
  • Davide Carneiro,
  • Guilherme Palumbo,
  • Victor Alves

摘要

Ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to environments where smart devices, sensors, and AI-driven systems work seamlessly to enhance human interactions with their surroundings. Through the combination of real-time data, context-awareness, and adaptive learning, AmI enables environments to respond proactively to user needs, improving efficiency, comfort, and decision-making. However, since AmI systems are inherently human-centric and often operate autonomously, they must be designed with robust ethical, privacy, and safety considerations. Ensuring that these systems function reliably, fairly, and without harm is crucial, especially in sensitive domains like healthcare, security, and smart infrastructure. This work introduces a novel tool, conceptualized as an AmI Digital Twin, which allows developers to simulate or monitor AmI data streams, and develop and thoroughly test AmI applications before and during their real use. Built on a modular architecture leveraging technologies like React.js, Node.js, Kafka, Faust, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker, the platform ensures adaptability to different application environments, scalability, and ease of deployment. Besides the description of the tool itself, we provide some early validation results in common AmI tasks such as anomaly and concept drift detection. The tool is available in a public repository, and comes pre-packaged with a set of applications for AmI use-cases.