Ambient intelligence technologies for industrial working environments in manufacturing SMEs

This paper presents an innovative approach how to bring AmI technologies to the industrial sector of manufacturing SMEs and how to develop and validate business process innovations based on the Ambient Intelligence philosophy. Furthermore a Building Block concept to develop reusable components which are required to realise an intelligent human operator support is elaborated and developed, as well as a software architecture providing the required runtime environment and infrastructure to support the realisation of human-centric solutions is developed. The Building Blocks and the Software Architecture are applied and verified in 5 business cases in 4 European countries.