PC3: Designing a Smarter and Greener Electric Grid: A Sensor-data Driven Approach

该奖项为马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校和印度孟买的印度理工学院之间的一个合作项目提供资金。最近，人们越来越关注开发新技术，为我们的社会创造一个更可持续的未来。在这种情况下，新的信息和通信技术的设计对设计未来的可持续系统具有特别的希望。该项目将解决设计更智能、更环保电网的关键研究挑战，特别关注在核心和核心电网中出现的普适性计算和通信问题。并且处于智能电网的“边缘”。这项工作的智力价值在于带来一种多学科的方法来解决电网数据收集、传播、监测和需求响应方面的问题，其共同的主题是数据驱动的方法，使用从测量中获得的数据来驱动驱动/控制、优化或资源管理，以解决与电网接口的智能电网和智能家居的问题。该项目的活动涵盖三个相互关联的主题：(i)智能电网的测量和监测，（ii）智能电网的数据传播架构，以及（iii）智能住宅和办公大楼的需求响应。该项目的更广泛影响包括(i)为学生研究人员提供与工业合作者的工业实习机会，使他们能够研究该领域的实际问题；（ii）开发一门关于智能电网计算和网络技术的三学分课程，由麻省理工学院和印度理工学院孟买分校联合提供，并在过去一年中共同开展的智能电网阅读小组的基础上，以及（iii）在马萨诸塞州霍利奥克组织一个智能电网研讨会。一个经济上处于不利地位的门户城市，拥有大量的少数民族人口，以及一个市政拥有的水电公用事业。该项目的结构是，并将导致印度和美国之间的国际合作。智能电网、智能家居和可持续性是印度和美国的重要研究领域；然而，每个国家都有许多具体的地理问题必须加以解决。通过合作和相互利用？项目参与者将能够开发出广泛适用于国际环境的研究方法。美国和印度的工业合作伙伴，包括公用事业、研究实验室和发电公司，将为这个项目带来现实世界的视角。该项目是普及通信和计算协作（PC3）计划的一部分。

This award provides funding for a collaborative project between University of Massachussetes, Amherst and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. There has recently been an increasing focus on developing new technologies for a more sustainable future for our society. In this context, the design of new Information and Communication technologies hold particular promise for designing the sustainable systems of tomorrow. This project will address key research challenges in the design of a smarter and greener electric grid, specifically focusing on pervasive computing and communication issues that arise both in the ?core? and on the "edge" of the smart grid. The intellectual merit of the effort is to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing problems in data collection, dissemination, monitoring, and demand-response for the grid, with a common theme being a data-driven methodology using data obtained from measurements to drive actuation/control, optimization or resource management to address problems for the smart grid and smart homes that interface with the grid. The project's activities span three inter-related topics: (i) measurement and monitoring for the smart-grid, (ii) data dissemination architectures for the smart grid and (iii) demand-response for smart residential and office buildings. The broader impacts of this project include (i) industrial internship opportunities with industrial collaborators for student researchers, enabling them to work on practical problems in this area, (ii) developing a three-credit course on computing and networking technologies for the smart grid, offered jointly between UMass and IIT Bombay and building on the smart-grid reading group that has been jointly conducted for the past year, and (iii) organizing a smart grid workshop in Holyoke MA, an economically disadvantaged gateway city with a large minority population, and a municipally-owned hydroelectric utility. The project is structured as, and will result in, an international collaboration between India and the US. Smart grid, smart homes and sustainability are important areas of research in both India and the USA; however there are numerous context-specific geographical issues that must be addressed in each country. Through collaboration and by leveraging each other?s insights, project participants will be able to develop research methods that are broadly applicable in international settings. US and Indian industry partners, which include utilities, research labs and power generation companies, will bring a real-world perspective to this project. This project is a part of pervasive communications and computing collaboration (PC3) initiative.