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The intelligent street is the name given to a type of intelligent environment which can be found on public transit street.〔A public transit street is “A street, square, road or other place in which the public moves or circulates”. Oxford English Dictionary.〕 It has arisen from the convergence of communications and Ubiquitous Computing,〔:es:Computación ubicua〕 intelligent〔Joseph W. Sullivan and William Mark, ''(Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM Press Frontier Series) )'', 1991, ACM Press.〕〔''(INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES: Adaptation and Personalization Systems and Technologies )'' by Constantinos Mourlas and Panagiotis Germanakos 2008, Idea Group Publishing.〕 and adaptable user interfaces, and the common infrastructure of the intelligent or mixed pavement. The Intelligent Street is the basis of the intelligent city and is normally formed of four layers (physical infrastructure, sensors, networks and services), thus improving on the traditional street (which originated in Roman roads〔Calzada Romana 〕 or Roman streets) which served solely as transit streets (but did not have any type of “intelligence”). ==Concept== The concept of the Intelligent Street is associated with that of the Intelligent Environment, since it is built of/ absorbs all information and communication technologies and sensor systems on any public transit street. This allows the facilities it offers to be integrated into its users’ daily lives for their convenience, but without these users having to make any type of effort or undergo invasions of privacy. These dual objectives of comfort and simplicity are the basis of the concept of the Intelligent Street, which can be defined as an environment in which users interact in a transparent manner with a multitude of interconnected devices using different types of wireless communication. It is thus possible to construct “intelligent cities”, in the sense indicated by Professor William John Mitchell of the MIT, , by taking advantage of the ‘third wave of technological innovation’ provided by sensors and digital labels, and which will substitute previous waves, relative to the incorporation of computers and the era of connection implied by the introduction of the Internet. As this expert points out, inhabiting intelligent cities implies being continuously connected to different networks, thus allowing these cities to be able to ‘extend’ people’s capacities in a more complete and global manner. The Intelligent Street thus becomes the basis for the Intelligent City, since it permits the creation of interactive spaces which take computing to the physical world, thus supporting a set of interconnected people who, together with their mobile phones, computers and other apparatus, will buy, sell, and exchange information and services. As has occurred with the television, it seems likely that there will be an “analogical blackout” in cities, and their inhabitants will be able to celebrate this with our new services (as are shown below) via a system of invisible and sustainable infrastructures. The concept of the Intelligent Street allows the vision of an Information Society in public zones to become a reality, and ensures its ease of use, efficient service support and the possibility of maintaining natural interactions with citizens. Its principal objective is characterized by the fact that it will provide people with intelligent and intuitive interfaces which will be integrated into normal pavements, and that it will be able to recognize and respond to the presence and needs of diverse individuals in a completely discrete and imperceptible manner. Apart from consisting of streets and squares, in which its principal utility resides, the Intelligent Street will also be of great use in schools, transport networks, airports, promenades, theme parks … and in all those places in which it can assist the pedestrian to find information, relate to others, carry out activities, receive help … and feel secure. This concept therefore takes ubiquitous and pervasive computing to public transit streets. Ubiquitous Computing〔''("Ubiquitous computing" )'' Weiser; Gold; Brown (1999-05-11). Retrieved 2008-05-07.〕 signifies computing that is available everywhere〔 and it is pervasive〔''(ISBN 3-540-00218-9 )'' Hansmann, Uwe (2003). Pervasive Computing: The Mobile World. Springer.〕 in the respect that it is integrated, in this case invisibly, into normal pavements. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Intelligent street」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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