CAREER: Software Hardware Architecture Co-Design for Smart Environment Operation and Management

嵌入传感、驱动、计算、通信和存储资源的“物联网”（IoT）有望将我们的家庭、办公室、社区和社区转变为“智能环境”，提供新的功能、服务并创造数万亿的潜在经济影响。尽管最近物联网业务蓬勃发展，但缺乏适合智能环境中关键需求的细粒度访问，性能保证和管理的基础软件/硬件架构。这项研究采取了一种原则性的方法来设计和开发这样一种软件/硬件架构，作为未来物联网技术和应用的基础，从而减轻了阻碍各种物联网应用中数万亿经济潜力的一些关键技术障碍。PI将与警方和行业合作伙伴合作进行技术试点，以协助官员在日常工作中灵活应对紧急情况，并帮助老年人在家养老，提高生活质量。博士生，医学硕士，到本科和高中水平将参与和培训期间的研究。对K-12和当地社区的推广将利用科学项目和制造商俱乐部的研究原型来培养技术和创新的文化。这项研究促进了智能对象作为一等公民的指挥操作。它将开发软件/硬件架构和系统，这些架构和系统牢牢植根于智能环境中所需的灵活，细粒度访问，命令执行保证和可扩展管理。与访问限制相关的状态和信息被捆绑到自给自足和自我保护的命令数据单元中。该研究将探索和开发确保正式物联网命令执行属性的机制;必要的硬件流量转发和安全功能，以确保低延迟和物联网操作的保护;以及智能环境管理中必不可少的配置，监控和维护。

"Internet-of-Things" (IoT) embedded with sensing, actuation, computing, communication and storage resources are expected to transform our homes, offices, neighborhoods and communities into "smart environment", providing novel functions, services and creating potential economic impacts in trillions. Despite recent booming IoT business, there is a lack of foundational software/hardware architecture suitable for fine grained access, performance assurances and management critically demanded in smart environment. This research takes a principled approach to design and develop such a software/hardware architecture serving as a foundation for future IoT technology and applications, thus alleviating some of the critical technical obstacles impeding the trillions of economic potentials in diverse IoT applications. The PI will collaborate with the police and industry partners for technology pilots to assist officers for agile emergency response in their daily duties, and seniors to age at home with improved life quality. Students from Ph.D., M.S., to undergraduate and high school levels will be involved and trained during the research. Outreach to K-12 and local communities will leverage the research prototypes for science projects and maker's clubs to foster a culture of technology and innovation.This research promotes smart object command operations as first class citizens. It will develop software/hardware architecture and systems firmly rooted in flexible, fine-grained access, command execution assurances and scalable management demanded in smart environment. States and information related to access constraints are bundled into self-sufficient and self-protected command data units. The research will explore and develop mechanisms to ensure formal IoT command execution properties; essential hardware traffic forwarding and security functions to ensure low latency and protection of IoT operations; and configuration, monitoring, maintenance essential in smart environment management.