PC3: Designing a Smarter and Greener Electric Grid: A Sensor-data Driven Approach

该奖项为马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校和印度孟买印度理工学院之间的合作项目提供资金。最近，人们越来越关注开发新技术，为我们的社会创造一个更可持续的未来。在这方面，设计新的信息和通信技术对设计未来的可持续系统具有特别的希望。该项目将解决一个更智能，更环保的电网设计的关键研究挑战，特别是集中在普适计算和通信问题，出现在？核心？和智能电网的“边缘”。这项工作的智力价值是带来了一个多学科的方法来解决数据收集，传播，监控和需求响应的网格，与一个共同的主题是一个数据驱动的方法，使用从测量获得的数据来驱动/控制，优化或资源管理，以解决问题的智能电网和智能家居与电网接口。该项目的活动涵盖三个相互关联的主题：（一）智能电网的测量和监测，（二）智能电网的数据传播架构和（三）智能住宅和办公楼的需求响应。该项目的更广泛的影响包括：（一）与工业合作者的学生研究人员的工业实习机会，使他们能够在这一领域的实际问题，（二）开发一个三学分的智能电网计算和网络技术课程，麻省大学和孟买理工学院联合提供，并建立在智能电网阅读组，已联合进行了过去一年，以及（iii）在马萨诸塞州的霍利奥克组织一次智能电网研讨会，霍利奥克是一个经济上处于不利地位的门户城市，拥有大量少数民族人口，并拥有一家国有水电公司。该项目的结构是，并将导致印度和美国之间的国际合作。 智能电网、智能家居和可持续发展是印度和美国的重要研究领域;然而，每个国家都必须解决许多特定于具体情况的地理问题。 通过合作和相互利用？项目参与者将能够开发在国际环境中广泛适用的研究方法。美国和印度的行业合作伙伴，包括公用事业，研究实验室和发电公司，将为该项目带来现实世界的视角。该项目是普适通信和计算协作（PC 3）计划的一部分。

This award provides funding for a collaborative project between University of Massachussetes, Amherst and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. There has recently been an increasing focus on developing new technologies for a more sustainable future for our society. In this context, the design of new Information and Communication technologies hold particular promise for designing the sustainable systems of tomorrow. This project will address key research challenges in the design of a smarter and greener electric grid, specifically focusing on pervasive computing and communication issues that arise both in the ?core? and on the "edge" of the smart grid. The intellectual merit of the effort is to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing problems in data collection, dissemination, monitoring, and demand-response for the grid, with a common theme being a data-driven methodology using data obtained from measurements to drive actuation/control, optimization or resource management to address problems for the smart grid and smart homes that interface with the grid. The project's activities span three inter-related topics: (i) measurement and monitoring for the smart-grid, (ii) data dissemination architectures for the smart grid and (iii) demand-response for smart residential and office buildings. The broader impacts of this project include (i) industrial internship opportunities with industrial collaborators for student researchers, enabling them to work on practical problems in this area, (ii) developing a three-credit course on computing and networking technologies for the smart grid, offered jointly between UMass and IIT Bombay and building on the smart-grid reading group that has been jointly conducted for the past year, and (iii) organizing a smart grid workshop in Holyoke MA, an economically disadvantaged gateway city with a large minority population, and a municipally-owned hydroelectric utility. The project is structured as, and will result in, an international collaboration between India and the US. Smart grid, smart homes and sustainability are important areas of research in both India and the USA; however there are numerous context-specific geographical issues that must be addressed in each country. Through collaboration and by leveraging each other?s insights, project participants will be able to develop research methods that are broadly applicable in international settings. US and Indian industry partners, which include utilities, research labs and power generation companies, will bring a real-world perspective to this project. This project is a part of pervasive communications and computing collaboration (PC3) initiative.