BD Spokes: SPOKE: WEST: Collaborative: MetroInsight: Knowledge Discovery and Real-Time Interventions from Sensory Data Flows in Urban Spaces

MetroInsight项目正在构建一个端到端系统，用于从通过各种传感器、数据收集和聚合方法收集的实时数据流中进行知识发现。 这些数据流是高度多维的，多个传感器在多个感知频谱和尺度上观察相同或相似的现象。这些有时也是实时的和/或具有强大的时序关系，这是通过有效的分析和政策支持来支持大城市基础设施所必需的。该项目汇集了不同数量的合作伙伴，包括公用事业、大学、公司和城市，他们有能力提供新的工具和城市传感器数据，并将知识转化为行动。MetroInsight的工具，数据和合作伙伴关系的独特组合，部分与MetroLab网络，使它做好准备，为全国各地的MetroLab计划以及其他市政府树立榜样。该项目将探索多模式数据集与城市基础设施管理之间的联系，以建立一个由综合工具组成的实用系统，并培训新一代的大都市劳动力。作为社区建设和劳动力发展雄心勃勃计划的一部分，该项目包括创建新的学习模块，能源和可持续性认证计划，传感器数据分析在线课程以及新数据科学硕士学位课程的新顶点项目。为了实现项目目标，MetroInsight正在构建管理数据的基础设施，网络和处理，将支持新的算法和工具的设计项目。具体来说，该项目正在开发算法，将多模态城市数据转换为反映潜在物理和社会现象的低维数据。这些低维数据可以包括适合于动态处理的人口水平数据，以支持城市规模的运营商对从交通、通信到紧急响应的各种生命线的真实的实时监控和可视化。为了应对相互依存的城市网络的复杂和微妙的时空动态的技术挑战，MetroInsight将开发元数据方法和工具，支持发现操作的相互依赖性，量化决策支持的不确定性，并提供与数据的完整性和安全性有关的保证，符合道德和法律的隐私期望。

The MetroInsight project is building an end to end system for knowledge discovery from real-time data streams collected through a variety of sensors, data collection and aggregation methods. These data streams are highly dimensional with multiple sensors observing same or similar phenomena over multiple sensory spectrums and scales. These are also sometimes real-time and/or have strong timing relationships that is necessary to support metropolitan infrastructure through effective analytics and policy support. The project brings together a diverse number of partners utilities, universities, companies and cities with the ability to contribute novel tools and urban sensor data and to translate knowledge into actions. MetroInsight's unique combination of tools, data and partnerships, in part with the MetroLab Network , makes it well poised to set an example for the MetroLab programs across the nation as well as the rest of the municipal governments. The project will explore connections between multimodal datasets and urban infrastructure management to build a practical system consisting of integrated tools, as well as training a new generation of metropolitan workforce. As part of an ambitious plan for community building and workforce development, the project includes creation of new learning modules, certification programs on energy and sustainability, an online courses on sensor data analytics and new capstone projects in a new Data Science master's degree program.To achieve project goals, MetroInsight is building infrastructure for managing data, networks and processing that will support design of new algorithms and tools in the project. Specifically, the project is developing algorithms to transform multimodal urban data to a lower dimensional data that reflects underlying physical and social phenomena. These low dimensional data may consist of population level data suitable for dynamic processing to support real time monitoring and visualization by cityscale operators of various lifelines from transportation, communications to emergency response. To address technical challenges in complex and subtle spatiotemporal dynamics of interdependent urban networks, MetroInsight will develop metadata methods and tools that support discovery of operational interdependencies, quantification of uncertainties for decision support and to provide assurances related to integrity and security of data, compliance related to ethical and legal privacy expectations.