56 Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 5 Felix Villanueva University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Francisco Moya University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Fernando Santofmia University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain David Villa University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain A Comprehensive Solution for Ambient Intelligence: From Hardware to Services ABSTRACT Ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, etc. are research lines that, with slight differences, emphasizes their efforts in improving everyday life of users. However, all these approaches share a common set of requirements, for the underlying IT infrastructure, devoted to support advanced services. A key component of these, sometimes called “new paradigms”, is the fact that technology is found embedded in the environments were we live. In this paper we are going to propose a comprehensive vision for modelling this type of environments from a practical point of view. This work cover form HW developments, which seamless integrate in the environment, to automatically generated services based on user needs. In the last decade, authors of this work have been proponents of a unifed approach, based on the distributed object abstraction, allowing synergies to be better exploited. Remote device management, wireless sensor and actuator networks, hardware components and now even reconfgurable hardware platforms and service platforms are considered as part of a large evolving system sharing a common middleware and a single design methodology. Jesus Barba University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Fernando Rincon University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Juan Lopez University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-549-0.ch005