Toward a statewide public Internet of Things (IoT) network

该项目将与纽约州（NYS）的社区合作伙伴合作，设计一个基于免许可低功耗广域网（LPWAN）技术的协调的全州公共物联网（IoT）网络。这项工作的动机是迫切需要弥合农村和城市地区之间的数字鸿沟，这种鸿沟不仅造成了信息差距，而且扩大了社会、民主、教育和经济差距。该研究将测试物联网网络作为弥合数字鸿沟的公用事业的概念。该项目明确将农村社区视为开发新的网络技术的机会，这些技术可以超越传统的有线宽带技术，为当地技术发展和创新创造新的机会。该研究计划是与社区合作伙伴共同设计的过程，通过协同研究和教育，生活实验室和社区参与创建设想的物联网网络。协同设计过程的关键特征是集成可扩展/可适应的物理网络和可信赖的社交网络。该项目将确定并克服采用LPWAN网络的关键障碍，为三种类型的治理结构（即，城市，城镇和村庄），并制定有效的策略，在公共物联网网络社区之间建立信任。该项目不仅在康奈尔大学开设了第一门物联网入门课程，还通过创新的基于社区的学习中心为纽约州的公民扩大了参与学习的机会;这是一种可以在美国复制的模式。

Teaming with community partners across New York State (NYS), this project will design a coordinated, statewide public internet of things (IoT) network based on unlicensed lower power wide area network (LPWAN) technology. The work is motivated by an imperative need to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban areas, which has contributed not only to information disparities, but also greater social, democratic, educational, and economic disparities. The research will test the concept of IoT networks as a public utility to bridge the digital divide. This project explicitly sees rural communities as opportunities for developing new networked technologies which can leapfrog traditional wired broadband technologies and create new opportunities for local technological development and innovation. The research plan is framed as a co-design process with community partners to create the envisioned IoT network through synergetic research and education, living labs and community engagement. The key feature of the co-design process is to integrate scalable/adaptable physical networks and trustworthy social networks. The project will identify and overcome key barriers for adopting LPWAN networks, develop scalable and adaptable network topology for 100% LPWAN coverage for three types of governance structures (i.e., cities, towns and villages), and create effective strategies to build trust among communities of public IoT networks. This project not only creates the first introductory course in IoT at Cornell University, but also expands the engaged learning opportunities to citizen across NYS through innovative community-based learning hubs; a model that can be replicated across the U.S.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.