Some Aspects of Ambient Intelligence

Nowadays the competition among companies, joined to the environmentalprotection rules, is so compelling that they should not only be on the top of technology inthey area, but also run their business according to life-long models. The emphasis on theproduct post-sale life is common for these models. The most popular model is ProductLifecycle Management, for manufacturing companies, or Service Engineering, for serviceorientedcompanies, and, for both, common paradigms are in maintenance, withconformance-to-use certification. The paper introduces basic research results achieved inapplication of Ambient Intelligence, and suggests considering maintenance as a crosssection of the two business paradigms.