IUCRC Phase I University of Southern California: Center for Intelligent Distributed Embedded Applications and Systems (IDEAS)

物联网设备的使用量超过430亿，使我们的生活更轻松。今天的设备主要是观察、收集和传输数据，以便在其他地方进行分析。IDEAS中心将推动现有技术，使设备能够分析数据，从数据中学习，做出决策，并与其他设备协调执行这些决策。这些智能设备将彻底改变生活的方方面面：医疗保健、基础设施、农业、电子商务、交通运输、微电子、制造业、娱乐、航空航天等等。IDEAS将与所有这些行业的公司合作，改善他们的业务实践，并为他们提供受过这些技术培训的员工。IDEAS的作品“智能、分布式、嵌入式、应用和系统”解决了当前互联网的两层结构（一端是用户端设备，另一端是数据中心）演变成一个将提供计算服务的大规模分布式计算机网络所面临的基本挑战。随着物联网、边缘云基础设施、5G通信和智能计算的融合，关键行业的公司必须利用可能出现的新机遇。USC-IDEAS将专注于边缘应用，如通过低延迟推理、多代理规划和可重构系统实现的数据驱动资产监控。IDEAS的技术将有助于通过计算机获取数据、信息和决策，使之成为像道路、公共交通、医院和其他公共服务一样普遍和普遍的地方，这些都是我们日常生活中不可或缺的一部分。该技术还将非常节能，因此企业不仅可以从根本上提高运营效率，还可以使企业更具环境可持续性。IDEAS将从社会各阶层培养未来的工程师和科学家，以进一步推进这些技术。合作指导将促进学生的创业研究，以培养下一代的突破性发现。IDEAS将建立和维护一个单一的中心范围的数据存储库。它将在自然保育委员会第一和第二阶段以及其后中心运作的任何年份维持。它将遵循IUCRC保护、记录和报告数据的最佳实践。虽然最初它将是基于云的，但我们将根据需要集成任何物理基础设施需求，如服务器或其他硬件。将根据需要集成强大的密码保护和双重身份验证属性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 devices – more than 43 billion in use – make our lives easier. Today’s devices mostly watch, collect, and transmit data to be analyzed elsewhere. The IDEAS Center will drive current technology to enable devices to analyze the data, learn from data, make decisions and act on those decisions in coordination with other devices. These smarter devices will revolutionize every aspect of life: healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, ecommerce, transportation, microelectronics, manufacturing, entertainment, aerospace and many more. IDEAS will collaborate with companies in all these industries to improve their business practices and provide them with employees trained in these technologies.IDEAS’ work, “Intelligent, Distributed, Embedded, Applications and Systems,” addresses fundamental challenges as the present two-layer structure of the internet (user-end devices at one end and datacenters at the other), evolves into a massive, distributed network of computers that will provide computing as a service. Companies in critical industries must exploit emerging opportunities that are possible as IoT, edge-cloud infrastructure, 5G communications and intelligent computing converge. USC-IDEAS will focus on edge applications such as data driven asset monitoring enabled by low latency inference, multi-agent planning and reconfigurable systems.IDEAS’ technologies will help make access to data, information, and decision making through computers as pervasive and common place as roads, public transportation, hospitals, and other public services that are part and parcel of our daily lives. The technology will also be extremely energy efficient so that businesses can not only radically improve their operating efficiency, but also make their enterprises more environmentally sustainable. IDEAS will train future engineers and scientists from all segments of society to further advance these technologies. Collaborative mentoring will promote entrepreneurial research among the students to foster the next generation of ground-breaking discoveries.IDEAS will build and maintain a single Center-wide data repository. It will be maintained for IUCRC Phases I and II, and for any subsequent years of center operation. It will be developed following IUCRC best practices for securing, documenting, and reporting data. While initially it will be cloud-based, we will integrate any physical infrastructure requirements such as servers or other hardware as needed. Strong password-protection and duo-authentication properties will be integrated as needed.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.