II-NEW: Vehicular Instrumentation for Green Sensor-Enabled Research

II-新：用于绿色传感器研究的车辆仪器

• 批准号: 1059294
• 负责人: Tarek Abdelzaher
• 金额: $ 33.44万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1059294&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: II; NEW; Vehicular; Instrumentation; Green

This project develops a mobile distributed vehicular testbed equipped with sensory and communication devices for experimentation with emerging networking and application development challenges in the domain of vehicular participatory sensing. The project is motivated by the emergence of a new type of computing and social applications enabled by the proliferation of sensors of everyday use, such as GPS devices and car speedometers. These applications rely on self-selected communities of volunteers to perform data collection and sharing for purposes of mutual interest. Of particular interest to this project are applications that help reduce transportation energy cost and carbon footprint. For example, by sharing data on speed, fuel efficiency, and location of vehicles, better real-time navigation services can be developed that guide drivers to routes that are maximally fuel-efficient for their cars, hence reducing transportation carbon footprint. The testbed facilitates the investigation of several research challenges towards enabling such applications including the investigation of data privacy, energy-efficiency, disruption-tolerant communication, social networking, and management of interactive complexity. No common testbed is currently available that allows researchers to experiment with a live vehicular data collection system of non-trivial size for the purposes of investigating such challenges. By building such a testbed, this project helps usher in a new era of sensing applications with more integration of humans, networks, and the physical world, which may have a significant impact on the economy, energy, and the environment by reducing transportation energy cost and carbon footprint.

该项目开发了一个配备传感和通信设备的移动分布式车辆测试平台，用于试验车辆参与式传感领域新兴的网络和应用开发挑战。这个项目的动机是一种新型的计算和社会应用的出现，这是由日常使用的传感器的激增所推动的，比如GPS设备和汽车速度计。这些应用程序依靠志愿者自行选择的社区来执行数据收集和共享，以实现共同利益的目的。这个项目特别感兴趣的是有助于减少运输能源成本和碳足迹的应用。例如，通过共享车辆的速度、燃油效率和位置数据，可以开发出更好的实时导航服务，引导司机选择最省油的路线，从而减少交通运输的碳足迹。该测试平台促进了对实现此类应用的若干研究挑战的调查，包括数据隐私调查、能源效率、中断容忍通信、社交网络和交互复杂性管理。目前还没有通用的测试平台，可以让研究人员对一个非平凡大小的实时车辆数据收集系统进行实验，以调查这些挑战。通过建立这样一个测试平台，该项目有助于开启一个传感应用的新时代，使人类、网络和物理世界更加融合，这可能通过降低运输能源成本和碳足迹，对经济、能源和环境产生重大影响。