SCC-PG: Towards cybernetic buildings: integrated intelligent sensing to create responsive environments

一个社区的基本组成部分是建筑物。像更大的社区一样，建筑物必须满足不同人群的所有需求。一些“智能”系统用于建筑环境，但它们的设计是为了方便操作和提高效率。这些制度是否有益于整个社区的居民，特别是在制定与建筑物管理有关的政策和做法方面往往没有发言权的边缘化群体？在民主社会中，互联社区必须安全、舒适、健康、易于使用，并支持生产力，为所有人的公正社会做出贡献。为了满足这些需求，一个真正的智能系统应该是控制论的：它可以整合反馈，以实现理想的目标。这项研究将开发和测试一个综合平台，以收集对建筑性能的反馈，将这些信息传达给所有建筑用户，并创建一个在线社区，通过该社区成员可以影响建筑服务和设施的运作。一个积极主动的智能或控制系统，使建筑物用户社区参与进来，将提供数据，从社会角度评估连接的社区战略。该系统将利用智能手机和商业增强现实设备开发一个廉价的反馈和控制系统，可以在任何建筑物中实施。它将包括一个用于创新建筑性能测量的传感器阵列，一组用于通信和控制系统状态的仪表板，以及自动化参与流程，用于评估和向设施管理人员传达满意度，舒适度和社会参与度等结果。该系统将结合来自传感、人工智能、心理物理研究和社交媒体的联合收割机技术。大规模实施此类系统将提供数据，以创建绩效基准，识别未知的健康威胁，并了解有助于生产力，满意度和社区建设的设计功能。一旦一个工作系统在建筑物中成功实施，它就可以扩大到社区范围内使用。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得支持的，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。

The essential building blocks of a community are buildings. Like the larger community, buildings have to accommodate all the needs of a diverse group of people. Some "smart" systems are employed in the built environment, but they are designed to facilitate operations and improve efficiency. Do these systems benefit the inhabitants of the whole community, especially marginalized groups who often do not have a say in shaping policy and practices related to building management? In a democratic society, connected communities must be safe, comfortable, healthy, easy to use, and support productivity, contributing to the advancement of a just society for all. To meet these needs, a truly smart system should be cybernetic: it can incorporate feedback for self-regulation toward desirable goals. This research will develop and test an integrated platform to collect feedback on building performance, communicate that information to all building users, and create an online community through which members can influence the operation of building services and facilities. A proactive intelligent, or cybernetic system that engages the community of building users will provide the data to evaluate connected community strategies from a social perspective.The system will leverage smart phones and commercial augmented reality equipment to develop an inexpensive system of feedback and control that could be implemented in any building. It will include a sensor array for innovative building performance measurement, a set of dashboards for communicating and controlling the status of systems, and automated participatory processes that assess and communicate outcomes like satisfaction, comfort, and social engagement to facilities managers. The system will combine technologies from sensing, artificial intelligence, psychophysical research and social media. Implementing such systems on a large scale will provide data to create benchmarks for performance, identify unknown health threats, and understand the design features that contribute to productivity, satisfaction and community building. Once a working system has been implemented successfully for buildings, it can be scaled up for community wide use.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.