US/Morocco Workshop on Sensors and Wireless Networks for Smart Cities

该项目支持美国研究人员参加美国/摩洛哥联合研讨会，讨论智能城市设备和无线网络领域的研究前沿。研讨会将在协作框架内汇集专家，讨论当前的挑战，并集中讨论传感器和无线技术所需的研究方向，以实现智慧城市。在智慧城市领域，大多数进步都是在技术部署方面取得的，而且主要是在发达国家。这一领域的重大研究活动仍然滞后。摩洛哥对在国内应用智能城市概念非常感兴趣，并且确实正在建设一个包括智能电网和其他智能城市基础设施的新城市。因此，迫切需要在全球范围内推进智慧城市研究，并帮助摩洛哥建立强大的智慧城市研究。通过这次研讨会，传感器、无线网络和智能城市计算领域的美国研究人员将能够与摩洛哥同行分享经验和研究想法。研究人员将确定互补的合作研究项目，以及加强教育和培训的想法。研讨会建议的成功实施可以为其他发展中国家规划智慧城市应用提供重要的范例。本次研讨会解决的研究挑战是全球性的，在解决能源问题和智能电网、智能交通网络、智能建筑、人类建模以及从个人空间规划到城市和区域规划和发展的一系列尺度上的重大挑战和国家需求方面，具有更广泛影响的巨大潜力。聚集来自世界各地的跨学科专家来解决这些问题提供了更广泛的影响机会。该项目的更广泛影响和影响源于摩洛哥是一个发展中国家，有机会从头开始开发新城市，而美国的技术可以广泛应用和销售。与主动系统集成的传感器和控制系统的最新技术成就可以控制建筑环境并根据社会偏好进行定制，同时仍然保持最佳运行、节能、可持续性和弹性。随着无线传感器网络（WSN）的使用，城市可以向智慧城市的概念迈进。智慧城市是一个深度融合感知、计算、通信、控制的信息物理系统（CPS）。然而，由于未来的cps由异构系统组成，实现可靠和自主的智能cps面临许多挑战。研讨会将解决与智慧城市发展和实施相关的研究挑战，并(1)制定传感器和无线网络的研究议程，以解决有效实施智慧城市所需的问题；(2)促进美国和摩洛哥科学家和工程师之间的合作；(3)通过(a)美国和摩洛哥教师的参与，以及(b)通过头脑风暴会议提出改变现有教育课程的建议，促使教育进步与新技术发展相匹配。

This project supports US researchers' participation in a joint US/Moroccan workshop on research frontiers in the field of devices and wireless networks for smart cities. The workshop will bring together experts in a collaborative framework to discuss current challenges and converge on needed research directions in sensors and wireless technologies that will enable smart cities. In the smart cities area, most of the advances have been in deployment of technologies and mostly in advanced countries. Significant research activities are still lagging in this field. Morocco is very interested in applying smart city concepts in the country, and is indeed building a new city envisioned to include smart electric power grid and other smart city infrastructure. There is therefore a real and timely need for advancing smart city research globally, and for helping to establish strong smart city research in Morocco. Through this workshop, US researchers in the field of sensors, wireless networks, and computing for smart cities will be able to share experience and research ideas with their Moroccan counterparts. The researchers will identify complementary collaborative research projects, as well as ideas for enhancing education and training. Successful implementation of the workshop recommendations can provide an important example for other developing nations for planning of smart city applications. The research challenges addressed by this workshop are global in nature and there is great potential for broader impacts that address energy issues and grand challenges and national needs in the arena of smart grid, smart transportation networks, smart building, human modeling and efficient development across a range of scales from individual space planning to urban and regional planning and development. Gathering interdisciplinary experts from around the world to address these issues presents broader impact opportunities. The broader impacts and implications of this project stem from the fact that Morocco is a developing country and there is opportunity to develop new cities from the ground up whereas US technologies can be broadly applied and marketed.Recent technical achievements in sensors and controls integrated with active systems can allow for the ability to control the built environment and tailor it to societal preferences, while still maintaining optimal operation, energy conservation, sustainability and resiliency. With the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), cities can move toward the concept of smart cities. A smart city behaves as a cyber-physical system (CPS) that deeply integrates sensing, computation, communication, and control. However, implementation of smart CPSs that are reliable and autonomous face many challenges, as future CPSs are composed of heterogeneous systems. The workshop will address research challenges related to the development and implementation of smart cities and (1) produce a research agenda in sensors and wireless networks that addresses issues needed to effectively implement smart cities; (2) foster collaboration between US and Moroccan scientists and engineers; (3) induce educational progress to match new technology developments through (a) Participation of US and Moroccan faculty, and (b) Suggestions for changes to existing education curricula, through brainstorming sessions.