Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Advanced Streetscape Sensing, Communications and Computing (ASTRSCC)

规划资助：先进街景传感、通信和计算工程研究中心（ASTRSCC）

• 批准号: 1840540
• 负责人: Andrew Smyth
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2019-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.The fundamental question to be explored through this ERC planning grant is how future generation wireless networks, combined with cutting-edge computing, may improve the life and landscape of local communities at the street level (streetscape), where engineering solutions can impact individuals directly. Pursuing science at the streetscape is challenging: it pits our scientific understanding against the messy complexity of human action and interaction, at scales of space, time, and impact that often outstrip our experimental ability to provide supporting data and analysis. This ERC will examine how to develop a deep understanding of the local streetscape needs and experiences amid all of the hustle and bustle that implies. This information will then be used to identify how that understanding can be quickly applied to large-scale smart city infrastructure. Improvements in infrastructure can be leveraged to return services at local scale to different users with locality-defined specificity. The initial planning grant activities will focus on a newly awarded NSF Platform for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) testbed entitled ?COSMOS? (Cloud-Enhanced Open Software-Defined ?Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment) in an area of 1 sq mile in West Harlem (New York City). COSMOS examines how to fill-in critical gaps in smart city services along the streetscape, where individual people experience technology and the urban environment in often surprising ways that fall beyond the reach of current-generation smart city technology. Using the planning grant, the team will expand that reach beyond the Harlem testbed to other cities, as well as to rural settings.This ERC planning efforts will explore how future generation wireless networks, combined with cutting-edge computing, may improve the life and landscape of local communities at the street level. It will focus on smart city functionality at very local scales in five applied thematic areas: The future of retailing, particularly cashier-less retail; Road safety, focused primarily at the interface between vehicles, streets, intersections, and crossing behavior of children and the elderly; Ethical security in public spaces, particularly benefits and privacy pitfalls of remote monitoring of individual and crowd flow on streets and around sensitive facilities; Last-meter logistics, especially interim dynamics between existing delivery and loading logistics and forthcoming autonomous logistics at the street-side; and The future of outdoor work, especially work performed on and around streets by city workers such as police and emergency service providers, as well as traffic control, maintenance and construction crews, utilities, and sanitation providers. The potential for highly interactive real-time applications for individuals at the very local scale is profound for the five thematic areas already identified. It is very likely that through the planned community engagement, equally or more important thematic application areas will be identified.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心规划补助金竞赛是作为 ERC 计划内的试点征集活动进行的。 作为整个 ERC 竞赛的一部分，规划拨款不是必需的，而是旨在培养团队之间的能力，以规划融合的、中心规模的工程研究。通过此 ERC 规划拨款要探讨的基本问题是，未来一代无线网络如何结合起来借助尖端计算，可以改善当地社区街道层面的生活和景观（街景），其中工程解决方案可以直接影响个人。在街景中追求科学具有挑战性：它将我们的科学理解与人类行为和互动的混乱复杂性进行比较，其空间、时间和影响的尺度往往超出了我们提供支持数据和分析的实验能力。该 ERC 将研究如何在喧嚣中深入了解当地街景需求和体验。然后，这些信息将用于确定如何将这种理解快速应用于大规模智慧城市基础设施。可以利用基础设施的改进，将本地规模的服务返回给具有本地定义的特殊性的不同用户。最初的规划拨款活动将集中于新授予的 NSF 高级无线研究平台 (PAWR) 测试平台，名为“COSMOS”。 （云增强开放软件定义？用于城市规模部署的移动无线测试台）位于西哈莱姆区（纽约市）1 平方英里的区域。 COSMOS 研究如何填补街景智慧城市服务的关键空白，在街景中，个人以令人惊讶的方式体验技术和城市环境，而这些方式超出了当前一代智慧城市技术的范围。利用规划拨款，该团队将把服务范围从哈林区测试台扩展到其他城市以及农村地区。ERC 的规划工作将探索下一代无线网络与尖端计算相结合如何改善人们的生活和生活。街道层面当地社区的景观。它将重点关注五个应用主题领域的本地智慧城市功能：零售业的未来，特别是无收银员零售业；道路安全，主要关注车辆、街道、十字路口之间的界面以及儿童和老年人的过路行为；公共场所的道德安全，特别是远程监控街道和敏感设施周围的个人和人群流动的好处和隐私陷阱；最后一米物流，特别是现有送货和装载物流与即​​将推出的街边自主物流之间的过渡动​​态；户外工作的未来，特别是警察和紧急服务提供者等城市工作人员以及交通控制、维护和建筑人员、公用事业和卫生服务提供者等城市工作人员在街道上和周围进行的工作。 对于已经确定的五个主题领域来说，在局部范围内为个人提供高度互动的实时应用程序的潜力是深远的。通过计划的社区参与，很可能会确定同等或更重要的主题应用领域。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。