Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities

智慧城市无线传感器网络

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-04007
• 负责人: Spachos, Petros
• 金额: $ 2.26万
• 依托单位: University of Guelph
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=665675
• 关键词: Wireless; Sensor; Networks; Smart; Cities

Every day more computer-based devices are connected to the internet. Most of these devices have at least one sensing unit, creating opportunities for direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems. This is the idea behind Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities - a development of the Internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data. Imagine a city where the street lights follows the traffic requirements in real-time and the air pollution form factories and cars is controlled with the use of data coming from tiny, cheap and energy efficient sensors. In the near future, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are expected to be integrated into the IoT and consequently to smart cities. The sensing infrastructures have a major role in smart environment and great research opportunities. Sensor nodes can join the Internet dynamically and use it to collaborate and accomplish their tasks. The future Internet, designed as an IoT is foreseen to be a world-wide network of interconnected objects uniquely addressable, based on standard communication protocols. Sensors will have a crucial role in smart cities. Green cities, which span from urban wildlife initiatives to city agriculture and green transport networks, citizen sensing and smart cities projects are emerging that attempt to realize improved sustainability through greater urban connectivity.***At the same time, the sensor node market continues to grow rapidly, as the cost to build custom nodes decreases due to technology scaling. Moreover, the use of embedded sensors in smartphones, phablets, tablets and mobile devices has enabled a number of popular applications. Advances in technology, engineering, and materials science have opened the door for increasingly sophisticated sensors and sensor integration to be used in environmental and urban monitoring research.***Beyond improving sensor integration, the concept of sensor in smart cities opens the door to as yet unexplored applications that cannot be conceived using specific/ devoted hardware, especially in the field of mobile devices. A flexible embedded sensor framework can be programmed and re-programmed in real-time, based on application needs, a unique characteristic that can be exploited for varied purposes, including improving application speed, power and cost. However, the security challenges of this new research area should be examined as well.***I propose a research program to comfort these gaps and challenges through the development of a general framework for smart cities, starting from smart buildings. My long-term objective is to develop a multi-sensor dynamic system framework for energy efficient and secure components of the smart cities, through interdisciplinary collaborations in academia and industry. Also, I will train high- quality personnel who can satiate industry's growing demand for network engineers.**

每天都有更多基于计算机的设备连接到Internet。这些设备中的大多数至少具有一个传感单元，为物理世界和基于计算机的系统之间的直接集成创造了机会。这是物联网（IoT）和智能城市的想法 - 互联网的开发，其中日常对象具有网络连接，从而使它们可以发送和接收数据。想象一下，路灯实时遵循交通需求的城市，而空气污染的工厂和汽车则使用来自微型，廉价和节能传感器的数据来控制。在不久的将来，无线传感器网络（WSN）预计将集成到物联网中，因此将其集成到智能城市中。传感基础设施在智能环境和巨大的研究机会中起着重要作用。传感器节点可以动态加入Internet并使用它来协作和完成任务。根据标准通信协议，可以预见将来作为物联网的未来互联网可以成为一个全球范围的互连对象网络。传感器将在智能城市中发挥至关重要的作用。从城市野生动植物倡议到城市农业和绿色运输网络，公民感应和智能城市项目的绿色城市正在出现，试图通过更大的城市连接来实现改善的可持续性。此外，在智能手机，平板电脑和移动设备中使用嵌入式传感器已实现了许多流行的应用程序。技术，工程和材料科学的进步为越来越复杂的传感器和传感器集成开辟了大门。可以根据应用需求对灵活的嵌入式传感器框架进行编程和重新编程，这是一个独特的特征，可以用于各种目的，包括提高应用程序速度，功率和成本。但是，也应研究该新研究领域的安全挑战。我的长期目标是通过学术界和行业的跨学科合作开发一个多传感器动态系统框架，以为智能城市的能源效率和安全组成部分开发。此外，我将培训可以满足行业对网络工程师需求不断增长的高质量人员。**