UKCRIC - CORONA: City Observatory Research platfOrm for iNnovation and Analytics

CORONA项目将提供所需的研究和技术资源，以支持和释放UKCRIC对城市观测站的投资的研究潜力。城市创造了该国绝大多数的财富，其基础设施投资每年达数十亿美元。城市是一个复杂的实体，具有动态和相互作用的基础设施、社会和环境方面。研究通常侧重于单一部门和有限的时间范围，因此无法理解相互交织的过程和系统。UKRCIC观测站设备赠款为传感器和观测设备提供了资源，这些设备将部署在整个城市范围内，以长时间监测前所未有的变量，系统和过程。CORONA利用“智慧城市”技术和物联网的进步来实现这些观测站。然而，我们不仅仅是以“智能”的方式使用这些数据来优化城市功能（例如交通系统）的运行，而是使用这些数据来建立对城市和基础设施短期和长期复杂性的长期理解。CORONA将通过了解如何将科学严谨性应用于观察和学习（正如人们在典型实验室中所期望的那样）来衡量城市，并开始分解这些模式，使决策者，政策制定者，公民和科学家能够提高他们对城市如何运作的理解。最终，CORONA和UKCRIC设备赠款建立的研究基础将使我们能够共同做出更好的投资决策，并清楚地了解我们的选择对城市地区的潜在影响。为了实现我们的长期愿景，我们需要在城市传感科学，收集，该项目旨在加强数据的管理和治理，并建立使地方当局、公用事业、科学家、公民和政策制定者能够共同努力的工作做法。在《科罗纳》中，我们的城市面临的关键社会挑战将得到解决（空气质量、能源、住房），作为了解城市监测实际方面的一种手段，并更清楚地了解这种新的“城市科学和工程”如何能够实现更好的决策，从而提高生活质量并造福经济。

The CORONA project will provide the research and technical resource needed to support and unlock the research potential of the UKCRIC investment in Urban Observatories.Cities generate the vast majority of the country's wealth and investment in its infrastructure amounts to billions each year. Cities are complex entities, with dynamic and interacting infrastructure, social and environmental aspects. Research typically focuses on single sectors, and limited timeframes and therefore is unable to understand the interwoven processes and systems. The UKRCIC Observatories equipment grant has provided resource for sensors and observation equipment to be deployed at the whole city-scale to monitor over long timeframes an unprecedented range of variables, systems and processes. CORONA uses advances in 'smart city' technologies and the Internet of Things to enable these Observatories. However, we are not just using this data in a 'smart' way to optimise the operation of city functions (e.g. transport systems), rather using this data to build a long term understanding of the complexity of cities and infrastructure in their short and long term. CORONA will achieve this by developing an understanding of how to apply scientific rigour to observation and learning (as one might expect in a typical laboratory) to measure a city and to start to unpick these patterns to enable decision makers, policy setters, citizens and scientists improve their understanding of how cities operate. Ultimately the research foundations put in place by CORONA and the UKCRIC equipment grants will enable us to collectively, make better decisions on investment and have a clear understanding of the potential impacts of our choices within urban areas.To achieve our long term vision we need a solid foundation in the science of urban sensing, the collection, management and governance of the data and to establish working practices that enable local authorities, utilities, scientists, citizens and policy makers to work together. In CORONA key societal challenges facing our cities will be addressed (Air Quality, Energy, Housing) as a means to understand the practical aspects of urban monitoring and to develop a clearer picture of how this new 'urban sciences and engineering' can enable better decisions to be made that will improve quality of life and benefit the economy.