Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities: A Platform Grant

未来智慧城市的可穿戴和自主计算：平台资助

• 批准号: EP/P010164/1
• 负责人: Stephen Beeby
• 金额: $ 182.39万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP010164%2F1
• 关键词: Wearable; Autonomous; Computing; Future; Smart

The focus of this Platform Grant is the combination of wearable systems networked with smart city and building management systems, and the processing of the collected data. The Platform will cover infrastructure and devices and will require innovation in hardware and software in order to realise the goal of a people centred smart city. The topic of the Platform and the underpinning research themes require a multidisciplinary approach that can be provided by the unique expertise of the research group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.Applications of the technologies will enable effective collection, communication, and processing of this data that, in turn, will enable applications such as crowdsensing activities or allow, for example, the provisioning of ultra-personalised services for users to enrich their experience as they navigate their environment, and engage in work and leisure. Such a capability would allow them to purchase personalised services (e.g. healthcare, entertainment, fashion), enable participatory sensing initiatives to support smart city applications (e.g. real-time traffic updates, pollution monitoring), or help coordinate evacuations during major disasters. Combining wearable sensors with intelligent building management systems can provide distributed sensing of the environment within the building as well as monitoring user activity and wellbeing in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of building services (e.g. heating, and ventilation). Such a capability will also become an important research tool to aid in our understanding of building occupant behaviour.Key research challenges exist in developing user-friendly ubiquitous energy-constrained wearable systems and interfacing these reliably and securely with external networks. Wearable sensors and devices will place individuals at the centre of the smart city and enable a step change in the level of interaction possible. It is essential to develop robust, agile algorithms and mechanisms that can cope with potential failures that may arise in the sensors and networks. Combining AI with sensors enables intelligent interacting agents that can form multi-agent systems exceptionally capable of solving problems and interpreting information. Such developments will underpin autonomous systems, benefit the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) and enable the next generation of smart city applications. A flexible funding Platform underpinning the group in these crucial areas of expertise will enable pioneering work and the pursuit of emerging opportunities.

该平台资助的重点是可穿戴系统与智慧城市和建筑管理系统联网的结合，以及对收集到的数据的处理。该平台将覆盖基础设施和设备，需要硬件和软件的创新，以实现以人为本的智慧城市的目标。该平台的主题和基础研究主题需要采用多学科方法，而南安普顿大学电子和计算机科学系研究小组的独特专业知识可以提供这种方法。这些技术的应用将实现这些数据的有效收集、通信和处理，进而实现群智活动等应用程序，或者允许为用户提供超个性化服务以丰富他们的体验。 当他们驾驭环境、从事工作和休闲时。这种能力将使他们能够购买个性化服务（例如医疗保健、娱乐、时尚），启用参与式传感举措以支持智慧城市应用（例如实时交通更新、污染监测），或帮助协调重大灾难期间的疏散。将可穿戴传感器与智能建筑管理系统相结合，可以提供建筑物内环境的分布式传感，并监控用户活动和健康状况，以提高建筑服务（例如供暖和通风）的有效性和效率。这种能力也将成为帮助我们了解建筑居住者行为的重要研究工具。关键的研究挑战在于开发用户友好的无处不在的能量受限可穿戴系统并将其与外部网络可靠、安全地连接。可穿戴传感器和设备将把个人置于智慧城市的中心，并使交互水平发生巨大变化。开发强大、敏捷的算法和机制来应对传感器和网络中可能出现的潜在故障至关重要。将人工智能与传感器相结合，可以实现智能交互代理，从而形成具有非凡能力解决问题和解释信息的多代理系统。此类发展将支撑自主系统、有利于新兴的物联网 (IoT) 并实现下一代智慧城市应用。在这些关键专业领域为集团提供支持的灵活融资平台将促进开拓性工作和追求新兴机会。

项目成果

Millimeter Wave Power Transmission for Compact and Large-Area Wearable IoT Devices based on a Higher-Order Mode Wearable Antenna

基于高阶模可穿戴天线的紧凑型大面积可穿戴物联网设备的毫米波功率传输

• DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.15066432
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Beeby S

Wearable and autonomous computing for future smart cities: Open challenges

• DOI: 10.23919/softcom.2017.8115596
• 发表时间: 2017-09
• 期刊: 2017 25th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM)
• 作者: Domenico Balsamo;G. Merrett;B. Zaghari;Yang Wei;S. Ramchurn;Sebastian Stein;A. Weddell;S. Beeby

A Generic Middleware for External Peripheral State Retention in Transiently-Powered Sensor Systems

用于瞬态供电传感器系统中外部外设状态保留的通用中间件

• DOI: 10.1145/3142992.3143000
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Arreola A

A Control Flow for Transiently Powered Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems

瞬态供电能量收集传感器系统的控制流程

• DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2020.2993213
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: IEEE Sensors Journal
• 影响因子: 4.3
• 作者: Balsamo D

Energy Harvesting Meets IoT: Fuelling Adoption of Transient Computing in Embedded Systems

能量收集与物联网的结合：推动瞬态计算在嵌入式系统中的采用

• DOI: 10.1109/wf-iot.2019.8767302
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Balsamo D