IUCRC: UCI: Planning Grant: Proposal Planning Grant: Center for Smart Space Research (CSSR)​

智能空间的特点是存在基于新兴传感、计算和通信技术的智能服务。这项规划拨款将创建一个多大学智能空间研究中心（CSSR），涉及罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）和加州大学欧文分校（UCI）。CSSR采取综合方法，通过确保数据、知识和服务的可用性和可访问性，使其具有多功能性和适应性。这项规划拨款将确定研究挑战，以建立以应用为中心的智能空间。应用领域包括健康和疾病监测系统、智能建筑、公共空间和城市、关键任务系统、交通、智能制造、协作机器人等。该中心的重点将涉及与工业、大学和社会相关的四个主要领域：创建自适应计算和通信基础设施;数据和知识的可靠获取、处理、解释和可持续性;涵盖生活和环境各个方面的应用;以及创造多样化和有能力的劳动力。 UCI研究人员将与工业组织、技术开发人员和用户合作，研究：自适应和弹性多尺度网络通信;关键任务应用的数据驱动实时适应;多层和边缘云计算方法，物联网数据管理和仪表空间的安全/隐私技术。这些合作将促进研究向智能空间实践的过渡。CSSR的规划阶段将影响UCI的研究和教学活动，并刺激技术转移到合作行业。我们的工作将强调智能空间应用，以改善生活质量，提高社区在充满挑战的情况下的应变能力。CSSR将利用正在进行的和未来的项目，以达到不同的社会经济背景的贫困人口。UCI是一所拥有多元化学生群体的西班牙裔服务机构。规划补助金研讨会将促进与行业的互动，并创造机会招募和指导不同群体的学生参加本科顶点项目，研究生课程和实习，在智能空间领域创造未来的劳动力。在不久的将来，智能空间和智能基础设施将影响每个人，并将大大提高生活质量。CSSR在促进无障碍智能空间创新方面的活动将在未来世界中发挥重要作用。规划阶段将作为会议、讨论和研讨会的平台，以确定指导智能空间发展的关键研究。CSSR将维护一个公众可访问的存储库，其中包括会议材料，研讨会信息，研究主题和细节以及出版物。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。

Smart spaces are characterized by the presence of smart services built on emerging sensing, computing, and communication technologies. This planning grant will create a multi-university Center for Smart Space Research (CSSR) involving Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI). CSSR takes an integrated approach to make them versatile and adaptable to situations by ensuring the availability and accessibility of data, knowledge, and services. This planning grant will identify research challenges to build application-focused smart spaces. Applications encompass health and disease monitoring systems, smart buildings, public spaces and cities, mission-critical systems, transportation, intelligent manufacturing, collaborative robotics, and others.The center’s focus will involve four main areas of relevance to industry, university, and society: creation of adaptive computing and communications infrastructure; trustworthy acquisition, processing, interpretation and sustainability of data and knowledge; applications that span all aspects of life and the environment; and creation of diverse and competent workforce. UCI researchers will collaborate with industrial organizations, technology developers, and users, to investigate: adaptive and resilient multiscale network communications; data-driven real-time adaptations for mission-critical applications; multi-tier and edge-cloud computing methods, IoT data management and security/privacy techniques for instrumented spaces. These collaborations will facilitate transition of research to practice in smartspaces.The planning phase of CSSR will impact research and pedagogical activities at UCI and stimulate technology transfer to collaborating industries. Our work will emphasize smartspace applications to improve quality of life and enhance community resilience in challenging situations. CSSR will leverage ongoing and future projects to reach underprivileged populations with varying socio-economic backgrounds. UCI is a Hispanic-serving institution with a diverse student body. The planning grant workshops will promote interactions with industry and create opportunities to recruit and mentor diverse groups of students in undergraduate capstone projects, graduate courses and internships creating a future workforce in the area of smartspaces. In the near future, access to smart spaces and smart infrastructure will impact every individual and will greatly improve quality of life. CSSR activities in fostering innovation in accessible smart spaces will play a major role in the future world. The planning phase will serve as a platform for meetings, discussions, and workshops, to identify critical research to guide the development of smart spaces. CSSR will maintain a publicly-accessible repository comprising meeting materials, workshop information, research topics and details, and publications. This repository will be maintained at a publicly accessible URL at RIT for the lifetime of the center.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.