CSR: Small: Towards Autonomous, Ultra-Low Power RFID-Scale Sensing Systems

CSR：小型：迈向自主、超低功耗 RFID 规模传感系统

• 批准号: 1218586
• 负责人: Deepak Ganesan
• 金额: $ 49万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1218586&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; Small; Towards; Autonomous; Ultra

This project performs fundamental cross-disciplinary cross-layered research into the design, implementation, and deployment of next-generation harvesting-based RFID-scale sensing technologies. The effort involves research at the CRFID hardware/software interface including energy management, data storage systems, and energy-aware computing to advance knowledge and understanding of zero-power pervasive devices. It addresses several fundamental research challenges including: 1) tradeoffs in energy harvesting, storage and usage that can make RFID sensors more programmable while not compromising energy-efficiency, 2) data storage systems that exploit probabilistic flash writes at low voltages, and that can tolerate frequent interruptions of power, and 3) energy management techniques that expose uncertainty-driven energy management interfaces, and schedule tasks in a harvesting-aware manner. Direct economic and social impacts of this project are expected in the design, development, and deployment of next-generation RFID-based sensing applications and businesses including medical, environmental, energy, military, homeland security, and transportation. Other benefits include involvement of female minority graduate students in research, and involvement of minority graduate students through the NSF-funded Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP). Further, the research and teaching from the project impacts students across the Five Colleges, which includes two all-women's colleges, Smith and Mount Holyoke, whose students can enroll in courses taught at UMass because of the consortium's cross-registration policy. Curriculum development includes exposing students to challenges at the hardware/software boundary of ultra-low power devices through new or existing courses, tutorials in conferences, and seminars and demos in science fairs intended for high-schoolers.

该项目对下一代基于收获的 RFID 规模传感技术的设计、实施和部署进行基础的跨学科、跨层次研究。这项工作涉及 CRFID 硬件/软件接口的研究，包括能源管理、数据存储系统和能源感知计算，以增进对零功耗普及设备的认识和理解。它解决了几个基本的研究挑战，包括：1）能量收集、存储和使用方面的权衡，可以使 RFID 传感器更具可编程性，同时不影响能源效率，2）利用低电压概率闪存写入的数据存储系统，并且可以容忍频繁的电力中断，以及 3) 能源管理技术，公开不确定性驱动的能源管理界面，并以收获感知的方式安排任务。该项目预计会对下一代基于 RFID 的传感应用和业务（包括医疗、环境、能源、军事、国土安全和运输）的设计、开发和部署产生直接的经济和社会影响。其他好处包括少数族裔女性研究生参与研究，以及通过 NSF 资助的东北研究生教育和教授联盟 (NEAGEP) 让少数族裔研究生参与。 此外，该项目的研究和教学影响了五所学院的学生，其中包括史密斯学院和曼荷莲学院两所女子学院，由于该联盟的交叉注册政策，这些学院的学生可以报名参加麻省大学教授的课程。课程开发包括通过新的或现有的课程、会议教程以及针对高中生的研讨会和科学博览会上的演示，让学生面对超低功耗设备的硬件/软件边界的挑战。