EAGER: Sensors in a Shoebox: Engaging Detroiters in Analyzing and Meeting Community Needs

“鞋盒传感器”项目的重点是为城市居民提供必要的工具和方法，使他们能够观察和分析影响其社区的物理、社会和自然系统，从而改善基于社区的决策。该项目创建了一种价格合理且坚固耐用的传感器套件，该套件由可连接互联网的太阳能无线传感器组成，可以分发给社区，以感知环境参数、振动、运动等参数。数据从社区部署的传感器套件传输到存储和管理传感器数据的云。社区直接从门户网站访问他们的数据，门户网站提供了一套用户友好的分析工具，市民可以使用这些工具从原始传感器数据中提取与社区相关的信息。Shoebox平台中传感器的一些设想社区用途包括但不限于：测量社区空气质量，跟踪公共空间的使用情况，观察居民的出行选择（步行、骑自行车和机动交通）。该项目将为网络物理系统的扩展提供科学和技术基础，以明确包括人类。所谓的网络-物理-社会系统，这些人在循环系统有潜力改变各种商业应用，包括交通、建筑能源管理等领域。该项目涉及底特律的社区，这个城市在经历了几十年的人口急剧下降后开始经历转型。具体来说，该项目从底特律公立特许学校招募初高中学生，在系统设计和部署的前线服务。为此，该小组将密切研究和严格评估城市青年使用该系统的经验。特别是，将对STEM知识的进步和青年作为互联公民的观念进行定性和定量评估。

The Sensors in a Shoebox project focuses on empowering urban citizens with the tools and methods necessary to observe and analyze the physical, social, and natural systems that affect their communities for improved community-based decision making. The project creates an affordable and ruggedized sensor kit that consists of solar-powered wireless sensors with Internet connectivity that can be distributed to communities to sense environmental parameters, vibrations, motion, among other parameters. Data is transmitted from community-deployed sensor kits to the cloud where sensor data is stored and managed. The community directly accesses their data from a web portal offering a suite of user-friendly analytical tools that citizens could use to extract community-relevant information from raw sensor data. Some envisioned community uses of the Sensors in a Shoebox platform include but not limited to: measuring neighborhood air quality, tracking the usage of public spaces, and observing residents' mobility choices (walking, biking, and motorized transport). This project will provide a scientific and technological foundation to the extension of cyber-physical systems to explicitly include humans. So called cyber-physical-social systems, these human-in-the-loop systems have the potential to transform a variety of commercial application including those in transportation, building energy management, among others. The project engages the communities of Detroit, a city beginning to go through transformation after decades of dramatic population declines. Specifically, the project recruits middle- and high school students from Detroit public charter schools to serve at the front lines of the system design and deployment. In doing so, the team will closely study and rigorously assess the experiences of urban youth using the system. In particular, advancement of STEM knowledge and youth's notions of being connected citizens will be qualitatively and quantitatively assessed.