RI: An Infrastructure for Wide Area Pervasive Computing

RI：广域普适计算的基础设施

• 批准号: 0303587
• 负责人: Atul Prakash
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0303587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RI; Infrastructure; Wide; Area; Pervasive

This project is to create the pilot for a pervasive computing facility through all areas of a building, including offices, lecture rooms, hallways, and common areas. The pilot will include a heterogeneous space comprising a significant fraction of a building. In this area, there will be a sensor network, capable of tracking hundreds of mobile clients to a granularity of less than 10 feet as they move freely through the building. Research Impact:The proposed facility will be used to advance research at a number of levels, from low-level system building to human-oriented applications. There are three main avenues through which this facility will advance research. First, it will be used to understand issues of scale and heterogeneity in the deployment of novel technologies that have been developed at the University of Michigan, ranging from nano-sensors to cognitive orthotics. Second, the mobility traces collected from the consistent use of this facility will lead both to the creation of new benchmarks for mobile system/algorithm designers as well as to superior building design. Third, given that the system requires the tracking of many building occupants, there will be an opportunity to study interesting issues of privacy and the manner in which individuals exercise choice. Broader Impact:At the University of Michigan, there are a number of on-going and planned research efforts that leverage sensor technology and/or mobile environments. Access to a large pervasive computing facility will be crucial to testing these technologies at scale and taking them to the next stage towards commercialization. More important, the pervasive computing facility will be deployed in the building in which the project team works everyday, along with many colleagues and students. This gives rise to a unique "living laboratory" experience through which to appreciate both the technological and social effects of the pervasive computing facility.

该项目旨在为建筑物的所有区域（包括办公室、演讲室、走廊和公共区域）创建普及计算设施的试点。 该试点项目将包括一个异构空间，其中包含建筑物的很大一部分。 该区域将有一个传感器网络，能够在数百个移动客户端在建筑物中自由移动时以小于 10 英尺的粒度对其进行跟踪。 研究影响：拟议的设施将用于推进多个层面的研究，从低级系统构建到以人为本的应用。 该设施将通过三个主要途径推进研究。 首先，它将用于了解密歇根大学开发的新技术（从纳米传感器到认知矫形器）部署中的规模和异质性问题。 其次，从该设施的持续使用中收集的移动轨迹将为移动系统/算法设计者创建新的基准，并带来卓越的建筑设计。 第三，鉴于该系统需要跟踪许多建筑物居住者，将有机会研究有趣的隐私问题以及个人行使选择的方式。 更广泛的影响：密歇根大学正在进行许多利用传感器技术和/或移动环境的研究工作。获得大型普适计算设施对于大规模测试这些技术并将其带入商业化的下一阶段至关重要。 更重要的是，普适计算设施将部署在项目团队每天工作的大楼内，以及许多同事和学生。 这带来了独特的“生活实验室”体验，通过它可以欣赏普及计算设施的技术和社会影响。