I-Corps L: Novel Instructional Wireless Sensor Network Kit for STEM+C Training

I-Corps L：用于 STEM C 培训的新型教学无线传感器网络套件

• 批准号: 1548556
• 负责人: Xiaojing Yuan
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1548556&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Novel; Instructional; Wireless; Sensor

Through the NSF Innovation Corps for Learning Program, (I-Corps L), this project will develop ways to achieve more widespread use of a teaching laboratory that helps undergraduate engineering students learn to design and program state-of-the-art sensors and smart devices. This project, developed at the University of Houston, is called the mySmart kit. The basic mySmart kit includes sensor nodes to measure temperature, light, noise, orientation, and acceleration. the kit combines integrated wireless capability with basic mobile apps that monitor the sensors. The kit can be used for applications such as monitoring the environment and home security. A variety of systems can be designed and built that utilize input from the wireless sensors to control devices such as lightning or heating and cooling systems wirelessly. The mySmart kit provides engineering students with hands-on experiences on smart sensor networks to develop and enhance their knowledge and understanding of the design principles and practices needed to create the next generation of smart devices.The basic mySmart kit is developed around the theme of creating a smart home. Basic competence is developed through twenty-two hands-on projects. The projects make use of the types of capabilities available to students in commonly-owned devices such as smartphones. These capabilities include embedded sensors such as microphones, accelerometers, cameras, and GPS. The projects also utilize connectivity such as cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. In addition to engineering design principles, the smart home project covers a variety of STEM topics including mechanical design, materials, electrical circuits, networking, and computation. The mySmart kit is based on industrial wireless sensor network standards. The projects include the flexibility needed to ensure individualized learning and provide an intuitive, easy to use platform. Three critical capabilities allow students to develop their own prototype designs: sensing/ actuation, connectivity/communications and computing. In the I-Corps L program, the project team will interact with potential users of this technology to better understand the needs of various users of the kit, and will develop ideas for increasing the number programs that adopt these projects. Given the important role of smart devices in current and future technology, the project has the potential to help US engineering graduates continue to be leaders in developing innovative technology to meet societal needs.

通过NSF创新团队学习计划（I-Corps L），该项目将开发实现教学实验室更广泛使用的方法，帮助本科工程专业学生学习设计和编程最先进的传感器和智能设备。 这个由休斯顿大学开发的项目被称为mySmart套件。基本的mySmart套件包括用于测量温度、光线、噪声、方向和加速度的传感器节点。该套件将集成的无线功能与监控传感器的基本移动的应用程序相结合。 该套件可用于监控环境和家庭安全等应用。 可以设计和构建利用来自无线传感器的输入来无线地控制诸如闪电或加热和冷却系统的设备的各种系统。 mySmart套件为工程专业的学生提供了智能传感器网络的实践经验，以发展和提高他们对创建下一代智能设备所需的设计原理和实践的知识和理解。基本的mySmart套件是围绕创建智能家居的主题开发的。 基本能力是通过22动手项目开发。 这些项目利用学生在智能手机等共同拥有的设备中可用的功能类型。 这些功能包括嵌入式传感器，如麦克风、加速度计、摄像头和GPS。 这些项目还利用蜂窝、Wi-Fi和蓝牙等连接。 除了工程设计原则外，智能家居项目还涵盖各种STEM主题，包括机械设计、材料、电路、网络和计算。 mySmart套件基于工业无线传感器网络标准。 这些项目包括确保个性化学习所需的灵活性，并提供直观，易于使用的平台。 三个关键能力允许学生开发自己的原型设计：传感/驱动，连接/通信和计算。在I-Corps L计划中，项目团队将与该技术的潜在用户进行互动，以更好地了解该工具包的各种用户的需求，并将为增加采用这些项目的计划数量而开发想法。鉴于智能设备在当前和未来技术中的重要作用，该项目有可能帮助美国工程专业毕业生继续成为开发创新技术以满足社会需求的领导者。