Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Advanced Streetscape Sensing, Communications and Computing (ASTRSCC)

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 ERC竞赛不要求提供规划赠款，但其目的是在团队之间建立能力，以规划融合的中心规模工程研究。ERC规划补助金要探讨的基本问题是，结合尖端计算的下一代无线网络如何改善街道一级当地社区的生活和景观（街景），其中工程解决方案可以直接影响个人。在街景中追求科学是具有挑战性的：它使我们的科学理解与人类行动和互动的混乱复杂性相对立，在空间，时间和影响的尺度上，这些尺度往往超出了我们提供支持数据和分析的实验能力。本ERC将研究如何在所有的喧嚣中深入了解当地的街景需求和经验。然后，这些信息将用于确定如何将这种理解快速应用于大规模智慧城市基础设施。可以利用基础设施的改善，以地方为单位向不同的用户提供具有地方特色的服务。最初的规划拨款活动将集中在一个新授予的NSF平台先进的无线研究（PAWR）测试平台，题为？宇宙？（云增强开放软件定义？城市规模部署的移动的无线测试床）在西哈莱姆（纽约市）的1平方英里的区域内。COSMOS探讨了如何填补智慧城市服务沿着街景的关键空白，在街景中，个人以通常令人惊讶的方式体验技术和城市环境，这些方式超出了当前一代智慧城市技术的范围。利用规划补助金，该团队将把覆盖范围从哈莱姆的试验平台扩展到其他城市以及农村地区。ERC的规划工作将探索下一代无线网络如何与尖端计算技术相结合，在街道层面改善当地社区的生活和景观。它将专注于五个应用主题领域的本地规模的智慧城市功能：零售业的未来，特别是无收银员零售;道路安全，主要集中在车辆，街道，十字路口以及儿童和老人的交叉行为之间的界面;公共场所的道德安全，特别是远程监控街道上和敏感设施周围的个人和人群流动的好处和隐私陷阱;最后一米的物流，特别是现有的交付和装载物流与即将到来的路边自主物流之间的过渡动态;户外工作的未来，特别是警察和紧急服务提供者等城市工作人员在街道上和街道周围进行的工作，以及交通管制、维修和施工人员、公用事业和卫生设施提供者。 对于已经确定的五个专题领域来说，在地方一级为个人提供高度互动的实时应用程序的潜力是巨大的。通过计划中的社区参与，很可能会确定同等或更重要的主题应用领域。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.The fundamental question to be explored through this ERC planning grant is how future generation wireless networks, combined with cutting-edge computing, may improve the life and landscape of local communities at the street level (streetscape), where engineering solutions can impact individuals directly. Pursuing science at the streetscape is challenging: it pits our scientific understanding against the messy complexity of human action and interaction, at scales of space, time, and impact that often outstrip our experimental ability to provide supporting data and analysis. This ERC will examine how to develop a deep understanding of the local streetscape needs and experiences amid all of the hustle and bustle that implies. This information will then be used to identify how that understanding can be quickly applied to large-scale smart city infrastructure. Improvements in infrastructure can be leveraged to return services at local scale to different users with locality-defined specificity. The initial planning grant activities will focus on a newly awarded NSF Platform for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) testbed entitled ?COSMOS? (Cloud-Enhanced Open Software-Defined ?Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment) in an area of 1 sq mile in West Harlem (New York City). COSMOS examines how to fill-in critical gaps in smart city services along the streetscape, where individual people experience technology and the urban environment in often surprising ways that fall beyond the reach of current-generation smart city technology. Using the planning grant, the team will expand that reach beyond the Harlem testbed to other cities, as well as to rural settings.This ERC planning efforts will explore how future generation wireless networks, combined with cutting-edge computing, may improve the life and landscape of local communities at the street level. It will focus on smart city functionality at very local scales in five applied thematic areas: The future of retailing, particularly cashier-less retail; Road safety, focused primarily at the interface between vehicles, streets, intersections, and crossing behavior of children and the elderly; Ethical security in public spaces, particularly benefits and privacy pitfalls of remote monitoring of individual and crowd flow on streets and around sensitive facilities; Last-meter logistics, especially interim dynamics between existing delivery and loading logistics and forthcoming autonomous logistics at the street-side; and The future of outdoor work, especially work performed on and around streets by city workers such as police and emergency service providers, as well as traffic control, maintenance and construction crews, utilities, and sanitation providers. The potential for highly interactive real-time applications for individuals at the very local scale is profound for the five thematic areas already identified. It is very likely that through the planned community engagement, equally or more important thematic application areas will be identified.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.