PFI:BIC A Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE)

这个NSF创新伙伴关系：波士顿大学的创新能力建设（PFI：BIC）项目将为波士顿市和马萨诸塞州的联邦研究，原型和评估新颖的“智能城市”服务。该项目的核心是一个基于云的智能城市开放平台和生态系统（SCOPE），它基于开放云交换模型为智能城市服务创建了一个多边市场，利益相关者在同一基础设施内竞争和合作。通过利用网络物理，移动的和云计算技术的突破，并通过建立由调查人员及其工业合作伙伴开发的新型数据采集和挖掘能力，SCOPE智能城市服务将解决二十一世纪世纪城市面临的挑战：将人与资源联系起来，引导集体行为的变化，支持创新的交通、医疗保健、能源分配，和应急响应解决方案，以及商业、商务和社交应用。SCOPE更广泛的影响包括为马萨诸塞州及其他城市广泛试验和采用智能城市服务提供模板;加速技术创新，商业化和业务发展;打破技术和制度孤岛;促进制度转型和深度公民参与;以及利用智能城市大数据平台开发课程内容和项目。SCOPE的实施需要设计新技术和新的应用程序编程接口并制作原型，增加公共云产品目前不具备的能力，包括（a）支持网络物理系统的可预测运行，以支持感知和响应实时应用程序;（B）管理数据质量和起源属性，以支持融合来自多个可信和不可信源的潜在噪声数据的应用;以及（c）纳入安全增强服务以支持隐私保护分析。除了SCOPE的设计和原型制作外，调查人员及其合作者还将与合作伙伴合作开发具体的SCOPE智能城市服务，包括（d）交通和流动服务，以减少交通拥堵，节省时间和燃料浪费，并减少污染;（e）监测/估计温室气体排放的能源和环境服务，以进行拥堵管理和协调智能电网的能源需求-响应解决方案;（f）公共安全和安保服务，用于大数据驱动的公共工程和市政维修的协调调度;（g）通过挖掘大型数据集和众包资产使用协调来管理城市资产的工具。此外，调查人员还将调查和评估各种社会、制度和行为机制，以促进新服务的采用，如激励计划和社区报告卡，以促进透明度和可持续性。通过波士顿大学哈里里计算研究所，SCOPE将由来自多个学科的研究人员领导，包括计算机科学，系统工程，地球与环境以及城市规划。一旦开发完成，SCOPE服务将通过马萨诸塞州开放云提供，这是一个新的公共云，通过绿色高性能计算中心（马萨诸塞州霍利奥克）设计和实施，并由马萨诸塞州技术合作组织（韦斯特伯勒，马萨诸塞州）提供支持。行业合作伙伴包括两个大型企业：施耐德电气（Palatine，IL）和IDG子公司国际数据公司（Boston，MA），以及三个小型企业：集成技术系统（Wallingford，CT），Connected Bits（贝德福德，NH）和CrowdComfort（贝弗利，MA）。公共部门伙伴包括马萨诸塞州联邦首席信息官办公室、波士顿市、大都市区规划理事会和大都市规划组织（马萨诸塞州波士顿）。

This NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) project from Boston University will research, prototype, and evaluate novel "smart-city" services for the city of Boston and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The centerpiece of the project is a Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE), which creates a multisided marketplace for smart-city services based on the Open Cloud eXchange model, in which stakeholders compete and cooperate within the same infrastructure. By harnessing breakthroughs in cyber-physical, mobile, and cloud computing technologies, and by building upon novel data acquisition and mining capabilities to be developed by the investigators and their industrial partners, SCOPE-enabled smart-city services will address challenges faced by twenty-first century cities: connecting people with resources, guiding changes in collective behavior, and supporting innovative transportation, healthcare, energy distribution, and emergency response solutions, as well as business, commerce, and social applications. SCOPE's broader impacts include providing a template for widespread experimentation with and adoption of smart-city services by other cities in Massachusetts and beyond; accelerating technological innovation, commercialization, and business development; breaking technological and institutional silos; facilitating institutional transformations and deep citizen engagement; and development of curricular content and projects that leverage smart-city big-data platforms. The implementation of SCOPE entails the design and prototyping of new techniques and novel application programming interfaces, adding capabilities that are currently not available in public cloud offerings, including (a) support for predictable operation of cyber-physical systems in support of sense-and-respond real-time applications; (b) management of data quality and provenance attributes in support of applications that fuse potentially noisy data from multiple trusted and untrusted sources; and (c) incorporation of security-enhancing services in support of privacy-preserving analytics. In addition to the design and prototyping of SCOPE, the investigators and their collaborators will work with partners to develop specific SCOPE-enabled smart-city services, including (d) transportation and mobility services to reduce traffic congestion, save time and wasted fuel, and reduce pollution; (e) energy and environmental services that monitor/estimate greenhouse gas emissions for congestion management and coordination of smart-grid energy demand-response solutions; (f) public safety and security services for big-data-driven coordinated scheduling of public works and municipal repairs; and (g) tools for management of city assets through mining of large data sets and crowd-sourced coordination of asset use. Additionally, the investigators will investigate and evaluate various (h) social, institutional and behavioral mechanisms to facilitate adoption of new services, such as incentive programs and community report cards to promote transparency and sustainability. Through the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University, SCOPE will be led by investigators from multiple disciplines including Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Earth and Environment, and Urban Planning. Once developed, SCOPE services will be offered through the Massachusetts Open Cloud, a new public cloud designed and implemented through the Green High-Performance Computing Center (Holyoke, MA) and supported by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (Westborough, MA). Industry partners include two large businesses: Schneider Electric (Palatine, IL) and International Data Corporation, an IDG subsidiary (Boston, MA), and three small businesses: Integrated Technical Systems (Wallingford, CT), Connected Bits (Bedford, NH), and CrowdComfort (Beverly, MA). Public sector partners include the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the CIO, City of Boston, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, and the Metropolitan Planning Organization (Boston, MA).