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、实施和部署进行了基础性的跨学科、跨层次的研究。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，以提高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）在能量收集、存储和使用中的权衡，其可以使RFID传感器更可编程，同时不损害能量效率，2）在低电压下利用概率闪存写入并且可以容忍频繁的电力中断的数据存储系统，以及3）暴露不确定性驱动的能量管理接口的能量管理技术，并以收获感知的方式调度任务。该项目的直接经济和社会影响预计将用于设计、开发和部署下一代基于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。其他好处包括少数民族女研究生参与研究，少数民族研究生通过国家科学基金会资助的东北研究生教育和教授联盟参与研究。 此外，该项目的研究和教学影响了五所学院的学生，其中包括两所全女子学院，史密斯和霍利奥克山，由于该联盟的交叉注册政策，其学生可以报名参加在马萨诸塞大学教授的课程。课程开发包括通过新的或现有的课程，会议中的教程，以及针对高中生的科学展览会中的研讨会和演示，让学生接触到超低功耗设备的硬件/软件边界的挑战。