"Empowering AI Applications in Smart Life and Environment" provides a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform smart environments and contribute to sustainable living. It investigates the integrating of AI with visual, audio, and haptic devices that can revolutionize energy optimization, intelligent transportation, healthcare management, smart farming, and smart homes. The book aims to highlight the latest research and developments in AI applications that drive the enhancement of smart environments and sustainable life. The chapters are divided into two broad parts, the first part of this book discusses "Artificial Intelligence in Smart Systems, Environments and Security" inclusive of, but not limited to AI-based energy efficiency, object detection, defect detection in smart infrastructure, AI-driven IoT platforms, and strategies of machine learning for cybersecurity. The second part entitled "Artificial Intelligence in Smart Healthcare and Sustainability" shows how AI helps in the multi-class diagnosis of skin diseases, elderly care, and enhancement of post-consumer plastics recycling. This book is an intense exercise in learning about the various ways AI can make environments smarter, sustainable, and secure.