CIVIC-PG Track A: Smart Kids and Cool Seniors

CIVIC-PG Track A：聪明的孩子和酷的老年人

• 批准号: 2228530
• 负责人: Clinton Andrews
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228530&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CIVIC; PG; Track; Smart; Kids

This project helps low-income seniors cope better with the compounding threats of heat stress, poor air quality, and poor ventilation in public housing. It is a collaboration between the urban community of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and researchers at Rutgers University. Poverty imposes multiple stressors that limit opportunities for youth and increase cumulative environmental health risks for vulnerable people. Solutions should empower these people and members of the broader community to act more effectively. Thus, the project brings seniors and youth together for a common purpose in a STEM education program for disadvantaged youth in public housing. The youth and their university collaborators will deploy an inexpensive sensor network to measure environmental conditions outdoors throughout the city, and indoors in seniors’ apartments, and will share insights based on the data collected with community members in real time so that they can act accordingly. This project should build a firmer basis for (1) residential actions to avoid exposure to heat stress and poor air quality, (2) community group actions to advocate for regulation of prominent outdoor air polluters and an indoor right to cooling, (3) municipal actions to prioritize civic improvements, and (4) housing authority actions to improve environmental conditions within apartment buildings. The project deploys a large number of inexpensive, moderate-quality air pollutant and temperature/humidity measurement sensors in a network with real-time remote data retrieval at a grid of fixed points, augmented with mobile sensors—personal exposure monitors—carried by youth accompanying seniors on their normal trips around the city. The university research team will create a modeling platform that monitors sensor performance, interpolates local environmental conditions based on the sensor data, compares outdoor and indoor conditions, and pushes actionable information and recommendations to residents by means of cellphone apps, a local-access TV channel, and video displays being installed off-budget in stairwells buildings owned by the housing authority. This platform will serve a community engagement process that brings youth and seniors together around the common goals of reducing seniors’ cumulative environmental vulnerabilities and increasing children’s exposure to STEM knowledge. The project: (1) focuses on human agency in the multi-level urban context; (2) applies machine learning techniques to help solve budgeting tradeoffs between sensor quality and coverage; (3) extends digital twinning strategies to handle both indoor and outdoor problem solving; and (4) empowers communities to identify realistic improvements.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track A. Living in a changing climate: pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience, and mitigation—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.

该项目帮助低收入老年人更好地科普热压力、空气质量差和公共住房通风不良的复合威胁。这是新泽西伊丽莎白城市社区和罗格斯大学研究人员之间的合作。贫穷造成多种压力，限制了青年的机会，增加了弱势群体的累积环境健康风险。解决方案应该使这些人和更广泛的社区成员能够更有效地采取行动。因此，该项目将老年人和青年聚集在一起，为公共住房中的弱势青年提供STEM教育计划。青年和他们的大学合作者将部署一个廉价的传感器网络，以测量整个城市的室外环境条件，以及老年人公寓的室内环境条件，并将根据收集到的数据与社区成员在真实的时间分享见解，以便他们能够采取相应的行动。该项目应建立一个坚实的基础，（1）住宅行动，以避免暴露在热应力和空气质量差，（2）社区团体行动，倡导对突出的室外空气污染物和室内制冷权的监管，（3）市政行动，以优先公民的改善，（4）住房管理局的行动，以改善公寓楼内的环境条件。该项目在一个网络中部署了大量廉价、中等质量的空气污染物和温度/湿度测量传感器，在固定点的网格上进行实时远程数据检索，并增加了移动的传感器-个人暴露监测器-由年轻人陪同老年人在城市周围进行正常旅行。该大学的研究团队将创建一个建模平台，监测传感器性能，根据传感器数据插值当地环境条件，比较室外和室内条件，并通过手机应用程序，本地接入电视频道和视频显示器向居民推送可操作的信息和建议，这些信息和建议被安装在房屋管理局拥有的楼梯间建筑物的预算外。该平台将服务于社区参与进程，使青年和老年人围绕减少老年人累积的环境脆弱性和增加儿童接触STEM知识的共同目标聚集在一起。该项目：（1）关注多层次城市背景下的人类行为;（2）应用机器学习技术帮助解决传感器质量和覆盖范围之间的预算权衡;（3）扩展数字孪生策略以处理室内和室外问题解决方案;（4）授权社区识别现实的改进。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划的回应。生活在不断变化的气候中：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。