CCRI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Hardware-in-the-Loop and Remotely-Accessible/Configurable/Programmable Internet of Things (IoT) Testbeds

物联网（IoT）设备和系统有很多应用，例如智能家居、智能办公室、医疗保健、老年人护理和工业系统。国际数据公司（IDC）的报告显示，2019年智能家居物联网设备出货量超过8.15亿台，并预测这一数字将在2023年达到13.9亿台。人们对物联网和相关领域进行了广泛的研究。然而，大多数现有的物联网研究使用小规模，临时和非现实的测试平台或模拟工具来生成数据和/或评估其工作。美国物联网研究界缺乏高保真的实验设施来支持对联网物联网系统进行严格和可重复的实验评估。该项目的目标是通过开发一个集成的物联网基础设施来解决这一关键问题，该基础设施提供可远程访问、可配置和可编程的物联网测试平台。该基础设施是第一个现实的大规模基础设施，包括智能家居物联网硬件测试平台，智能医疗保健测试平台和智能办公室物联网测试平台。该测试平台将在许多领域实现新颖和高质量的研究，如硬件设计，物联网，医疗保健，老年人护理，智能家居/办公室，智能城市等，该项目将吸引广泛的社区（包括学术界，工业界和政府）参与基础设施的设计，开发和管理。该项目将把研究与课程开发结合起来，并通过包括代表性不足的学生和K-12社区来扩大计算的参与。共享的、可远程访问的、可配置的、可编程的和可观察的物联网测试平台非常需要不同组织的研究人员来大规模地实验和测试他们的工作。该项目通过开发集成的物联网基础设施来解决关键问题。该基础设施包括三个可远程访问、可配置和可编程的物联网测试平台，使用一个统一的接口：智能家居物联网硬件测试平台、智能医疗保健测试平台和智能办公室物联网测试平台。每个测试平台都由几个可远程控制/可编程的机器人（模拟人类活动）、大量智能物联网设备和一个物联网边缘服务器（本地存储和处理物联网数据）组成。智能家居物联网硬件测试平台还包括FPGA板和高端混合信号示波器，用于开发与机器人和物联网设备接口的功能，并根据需要覆盖其控制，以进一步定制其功能。在这个项目中，团队将开发硬件和软件（例如，智能物联网应用程序（应用程序），物联网管理软件和Web接口），以授予这些现成的物联网设备这样的远程访问功能。拟议的基础设施将使许多新的CISE研究机会，如远程硬件设计和评估，可配置的物联网硬件测试，基于现实测试床和真实的物联网数据的物联网研究，以及利用智能物联网的高效医疗保健和老年人护理。借助这三个物联网测试平台，广泛的研究社区（如硬件设计、物联网、医疗保健、老年人护理和智能家居/办公室）将首次能够生成、访问和收集真实的数据，并使用真实的设备进行仪器和运行实验。该项目将促进、扩展和加速广泛领域的高质量研究，并有助于将不同社区聚集在一起。拟议的基础设施将实现许多新的CISE研究机会，并支持医疗保健，老年人护理，智能家居/办公室，物联网，硬件设计等方面的高保真研究（2）该项目将吸引广泛的社区（包括学术界，工业界和政府）。(3)该项目将把基础设施的发展和支持的研究纳入他们的课程开发。这个拟议的项目将直接促进坦普尔大学和两个EPSCoR机构（阿肯色州大学和南卡罗来纳州大学）的新研究和教育机会。(4)PI将让代表性不足的群体和K-12社区的学生参与这个项目。(5)除了出版物，PI还将创建一个可公开访问的GitHub存储库，以分享项目成果。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。

Internet of Things (IoT) devices and systems have a lot of applications, such as smart home, smart office, healthcare, elderly care, and industrial systems. International Data Corporation (IDC) report shows that over 815 million smart home IoT devices were shipped in 2019 and predicts that this number will reach 1.39 billion in 2023. There has been extensive research on IoT and related areas. However, most existing IoT research uses small-scale, ad hoc and non-realistic testbeds or simulation tools to generate data and/or evaluate their work. The U.S. IoT research community lacks high-fidelity experimental facilities to support rigorous and repeatable experimental evaluations of networked IoT systems. The objective of this project is to address the critical issue by developing an integrated IoT infrastructure that provides remotely accessible, configurable, and programmable IoT testbeds. The infrastructure is the first realistic large-scale one, and it includes a smart-home & IoT hardware testbed, a smart heath care testbed, and a smart-office IoT testbed. The testbeds will enable novel and high-quality research in many areas, such as hardware design, IoT, healthcare, elderly care, smart home/office, smart city, etc. This project will engage a broad community (including academia, industry, and government) in the design, development and management of the infrastructure. The project will integrate research with curriculum development, and broaden participation of computing by including underrepresented students and the K-12 community. Shared, remotely accessible, configurable, programmable, and observable IoT testbeds are in great need for researchers at different organizations to experiment and test their work at scale. This project addresses the critical issue by developing an integrated IoT infrastructure. The infrastructure includes three remotely accessible, configurable, and programmable IoT testbeds using one uniform interface: a smart-home & IoT hardware testbed, a smart heath care testbed, and a smart-office IoT testbed. Each testbed consists of several remotely-controllable/programmable robots (to emulate human activities), a large number of smart IoT devices, and an IoT edge server (to store and process IoT data locally. The smart-home & IoT hardware testbed also includes FPGA boards and a high-end mixed-signal oscilloscope, for developing the capabilities to interface with robots and IoT devices, and override their control as needed to further customize their functions. In this project, the team will develop hardware and software (e.g., smart IoT applications (apps), IoT management software, and web interfaces) to grant these off-the-shell IoT devices such remote access features. The proposed infrastructure will enable many new CISE research opportunities, such as remote hardware design and evaluation, configurable IoT hardware test, IoT research based on realistic testbeds and real IoT data, and efficient healthcare and elderly care utilizing smart IoT. With the three IoT testbeds, for the first time the broad research communities (such as hardware design, IoT, healthcare, elderly care, and smart home/office) will be able to generate, access and collect real data, as well as instrument and run experiments using real devices. This project will enable, extend and accelerate high-quality research in the broad areas, and contribute to bringing different communities together. The proposed infrastructure will enable a number of new CISE research opportunities and support high-fidelity research in healthcare, elderly care, smart home/office, IoT, hardware design, etc. (2) This project will engage a broad community (including academia, industry, and government). (3) The project will integrate the infrastructure development and the supported research into their curriculum development. This proposed project will directly foster new research and educational opportunities at Temple University, and two EPSCoR institutions (University of Arkansas and University of South Carolina). (4) The PIs will engage students of underrepresented groups and the K-12 community into this project. (5) In addition to publications, the PIs will create a publicly-accessible GitHub repository to share the project results.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.