RI: An Infrastructure for Wide Area Pervasive Computing

该项目旨在通过建筑物的所有区域（包括办公室、演讲室、走廊和公共区域）创建普适性计算设施的试点。试点项目将包括一个由建筑的重要部分组成的异构空间。在这个区域，将有一个传感器网络，能够跟踪数百个移动客户端，精确到不到10英尺，因为他们在大楼里自由移动。研究影响：拟议的设施将用于推进多个层面的研究，从低级系统构建到面向人类的应用。该设施将通过三个主要途径推进研究。首先，它将被用来理解在密歇根大学开发的新技术部署中的规模和异质性问题，从纳米传感器到认知矫形器。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/算法设计师以及卓越的建筑设计创造新的基准。第三，由于该系统需要跟踪许多建筑物的居住者，因此将有机会研究有关隐私和个人行使选择的方式的有趣问题。更广泛的影响：在密歇根大学，有许多正在进行和计划中的研究工作，利用传感器技术和/或移动环境。访问大型普适计算设施对于大规模测试这些技术并将其带入下一个商业化阶段至关重要。更重要的是，普适计算设施将部署在项目团队以及许多同事和学生每天工作的大楼中。这产生了一种独特的“生活实验室”体验，通过它可以欣赏普适计算设施的技术和社会影响。

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.