US/Morocco Workshop on Sensors and Wireless Networks for Smart Cities

美国/摩洛哥智慧城市传感器和无线网络研讨会

• 批准号: 1552061
• 负责人: Driss Benhaddou
• 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: 2015-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1552061&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Morocco; Workshop; Sensors; Wireless

This project supports US researchers' participation in a joint US/Moroccan workshop on research frontiers in the field of devices and wireless networks for smart cities. The workshop will bring together experts in a collaborative framework to discuss current challenges and converge on needed research directions in sensors and wireless technologies that will enable smart cities. In the smart cities area, most of the advances have been in deployment of technologies and mostly in advanced countries. Significant research activities are still lagging in this field. Morocco is very interested in applying smart city concepts in the country, and is indeed building a new city envisioned to include smart electric power grid and other smart city infrastructure. There is therefore a real and timely need for advancing smart city research globally, and for helping to establish strong smart city research in Morocco. Through this workshop, US researchers in the field of sensors, wireless networks, and computing for smart cities will be able to share experience and research ideas with their Moroccan counterparts. The researchers will identify complementary collaborative research projects, as well as ideas for enhancing education and training. Successful implementation of the workshop recommendations can provide an important example for other developing nations for planning of smart city applications. The research challenges addressed by this workshop are global in nature and there is great potential for broader impacts that address energy issues and grand challenges and national needs in the arena of smart grid, smart transportation networks, smart building, human modeling and efficient development across a range of scales from individual space planning to urban and regional planning and development. Gathering interdisciplinary experts from around the world to address these issues presents broader impact opportunities. The broader impacts and implications of this project stem from the fact that Morocco is a developing country and there is opportunity to develop new cities from the ground up whereas US technologies can be broadly applied and marketed.Recent technical achievements in sensors and controls integrated with active systems can allow for the ability to control the built environment and tailor it to societal preferences, while still maintaining optimal operation, energy conservation, sustainability and resiliency. With the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), cities can move toward the concept of smart cities. A smart city behaves as a cyber-physical system (CPS) that deeply integrates sensing, computation, communication, and control. However, implementation of smart CPSs that are reliable and autonomous face many challenges, as future CPSs are composed of heterogeneous systems. The workshop will address research challenges related to the development and implementation of smart cities and (1) produce a research agenda in sensors and wireless networks that addresses issues needed to effectively implement smart cities; (2) foster collaboration between US and Moroccan scientists and engineers; (3) induce educational progress to match new technology developments through (a) Participation of US and Moroccan faculty, and (b) Suggestions for changes to existing education curricula, through brainstorming sessions.

该项目支持美国研究人员参加美国/摩洛哥关于智能城市设备和无线网络领域研究前沿的联合研讨会。该研讨会将在一个合作框架中汇集专家，讨论当前的挑战，并集中在传感器和无线技术方面所需的研究方向，以实现智慧城市。在智慧城市领域，大部分进步都是在技术部署方面，而且主要是在发达国家。在这一领域，重要的研究活动仍然滞后。摩洛哥对在该国应用智能城市概念非常感兴趣，并且确实正在建设一个新的城市，设想包括智能电网和其他智能城市基础设施。因此，有真实的和及时的需要在全球范围内推进智慧城市研究，并帮助在摩洛哥建立强大的智慧城市研究。通过此次研讨会，美国在传感器、无线网络和智能城市计算领域的研究人员将能够与摩洛哥同行分享经验和研究思路。研究人员将确定互补的合作研究项目，以及加强教育和培训的想法。研讨会建议的成功实施可以为其他发展中国家规划智慧城市应用提供重要范例。本次研讨会讨论的研究挑战是全球性的，有很大的潜力产生更广泛的影响，解决能源问题和巨大的挑战和国家需求的智能电网，智能交通网络，智能建筑，人类建模和有效的发展在一系列规模从个人空间规划到城市和区域规划和发展的竞技场。聚集来自世界各地的跨学科专家来解决这些问题提供了更广泛的影响机会。该项目更广泛的影响和意义源于这样一个事实，即摩洛哥是一个发展中国家，有机会从头开始开发新的城市，而美国的技术可以广泛应用和销售。传感器和控制与主动系统集成的最新技术成就可以允许控制建筑环境的能力，并根据社会偏好进行调整，同时仍然保持最佳运行，节能、可持续性和复原力。通过使用无线传感器网络（WSN），城市可以迈向智慧城市的概念。智慧城市表现为一个信息物理系统（CPS），它深度集成了传感，计算，通信和控制。然而，智能CPS的可靠性和自主性的实现面临着许多挑战，因为未来的CPS是由异构系统。研讨会将解决与智慧城市的发展和实施有关的研究挑战，并（1）制定传感器和无线网络的研究议程，解决有效实施智慧城市所需的问题;（2）促进美国和摩洛哥科学家和工程师之间的合作;（3）通过（a）美国和摩洛哥教师的参与和（B）对现有教育课程的改革建议，促使教育进步与新技术的发展相匹配，通过头脑风暴会议。