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

这个平台GRANT的重点是将可穿戴系统与智慧城市和楼宇管理系统联网，以及对收集到的数据进行处理。该平台将涵盖基础设施和设备，并需要在硬件和软件方面进行创新，以实现以人为本的智慧城市的目标。平台的主题和支撑的研究主题需要一个多学科的方法，这个方法可以由南安普顿大学电子和计算机科学系的研究小组的独特专业知识提供。这些技术的应用将使这些数据能够有效地收集、交流和处理，进而使诸如群体感应活动之类的应用程序成为可能，或者例如，为用户提供超个性化的服务，以丰富他们在环境中导航、从事工作和休闲的体验。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)，支持参与式传感倡议，以支持智能城市应用(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，可以提供对建筑内环境的分布式感知，并监控用户的活动和福祉，以提高建筑服务(如供暖和通风)的效力和效率。这种能力也将成为帮助我们了解建筑物居住者行为的重要研究工具。开发用户友好、无处不在的能源受限的可穿戴系统并将这些系统可靠且安全地与外部网络连接存在关键的研究挑战。可穿戴传感器和设备将把个人置于智能城市的中心，并使可能的互动水平发生阶段性变化。必须开发健壮、灵活的算法和机制，以应对传感器和网络中可能出现的潜在故障。将人工智能与传感器相结合，使智能交互代理能够形成能够解决问题和解释信息的多代理系统。这些发展将为自主系统奠定基础，使蓬勃发展的物联网(IoT)受益，并使下一代智慧城市应用成为可能。一个灵活的融资平台在这些关键的专门知识领域为集团提供支持，将使开创性工作和追求新出现的机会成为可能。

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.