Collaborative Research: CCRI: NEW: Building a Batteryless Computing Community through Access to Education, Testbeds, and Tools

合作研究：CCRI：新：通过获得教育、测试平台和工具构建无电池计算社区

• 批准号: 2235002
• 负责人: Jacob Sorber
• 金额: $ 104.93万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235002&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CCRI; NEW; Building

Batteries are a pressing challenge for the rapidly growing Internet of Things. They wear out, require regular maintenance, and increase the cost of small computing devices. Fueled by recent advances, a fledgling community of researchers has begun developing batteryless computing devices that cost less, do not need to be charged, are powered by harvested energy, and are more sustainable than their traditional counterparts. In this community, research opportunities are both abundant and challenging, and new researchers from diverse backgrounds are needed if the community is to grow. Unfortunately, new researchers face a steep learning curve, technical design challenges, and gaps in educational materials. Worse, most of the community’s core hardware and software tools and computing platforms are poorly documented, difficult to use, and not commercially available. This project’s goal is to help the batteryless computing community grow by removing these barriers. The project aims to accomplish this by creating an online community research hub that brings together essential digital artifacts and information from community members and a collection of community hardware devices --development, testing, and experimentation tools and platforms-- that will be manufactured and made available to thecommunity in the form of starter kits for new researchers interested in joining the community.Ultimately, low-cost sensors and other computing devices that can operate for decades without batteries and regular maintenance will reduce the environmental cost of the Internet of Things and have a profound impact on the national economy by opening up new opportunities in healthcare, agriculture, transportation, space exploration, and other scientific fields that require long-term data gathering. This project’s community hub and inventory will expand public access to new hardware and software designs, artifacts, and educational materials. Furthermore, the project directly involves undergraduate and graduate students, expanding the supply of scientists educated in this important, emerging research area. This project will help past and future research results transition into public use, accelerate research progress, and encourage new researchers from many traditionally-separate computing fields to apply their expertise to critical scientific questions and challenges, like improving the security of unreliably-powered computing devices, enabling effective wireless communication in spite of intermittent failures, and bringing modern machine learning techniques to unpredictable low-power computing environments.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.

电池是快速增长的物联网的紧迫挑战。他们磨损，需要定期维护，并增加小型计算设备的成本。在最近的进步推动下，一个刚起步的研究人员社区开始开发无电计算设备，成本较小，不需要充电，由收获的能源提供动力，并且比传统的能源更可持续。在这个社区中，研究机会既丰富又具有挑战性，如果社区成长，则需要来自潜水员的新研究人员。不幸的是，新研究人员面临钢铁学习曲线，技术设计挑战和教育材料的差距。更糟糕的是，社区的大多数核心硬件和软件工具以及计算平台的文献不佳，难以使用，并且无法商业上可用。该项目的目标是通过消除这些障碍来帮助无电计算社区的发展。项目旨在通过创建一个在线社区研究中心来实现这一目标，该枢纽将社区成员的基本数字文物和信息汇集在一起​​，以及一系列社区硬件设备（开发，测试，测试，实验工具和平台）的制造，并将在社区中以启动套件的形式为社区提供，以使他们能够与社区相关的新型和其他计算机的启动套件的形式。物联网的环境成本，通过在医疗保健，农业，运输，太空探索和其他需要长期数据收集的科学领域开放新的机会，对国民经济产生深远的影响。该项目的社区枢纽和库存将扩大公众对新硬件和软件设计，文物和教育材料的访问。此外，该项目直接涉及本科生和毕业。学生扩大了在这个重要的，新兴的研究领域受过教育的科学家的供应。该项目将有助于过去和未来的研究结果过渡到公共用途，加速研究的进步，并鼓励来自许多传统上分离的计算领域的新研究人员将其专业知识应用于关键的科学问题和挑战，例如改善不舒适的计算设备的安全性，使能够有效的无线沟通能够使环境的失败和机器学习能力相处，并使机器的机器学习能够使人相处融合，并使机器的机器学习能力有效。 NSF的法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来评估，被认为是宝贵的支持。