SCC-Planning: Defining Research and Education Challenges in IoT for Neighborhoods with Significant Numbers of Small-to-Mid-Sized Manufacturers

智能互联系统正在深刻地改变社区、工作和家庭。 在过去的几十年里，自动化从根本上重塑了制造业，制造业的就业及其当地社区。物联网（IoT）可能会加速变革，带来新的机遇和挑战。该项目将俄亥俄州克利夫兰市附近的两所大学的科学、工程和商业管理方面的学术研究人员、教育工作者、社区成员和城市领导人以及中小型制造商（SMM）聚集在一起，规划他们社区的研究、教育和劳动力发展。该项目为研究、教育、和政策建议，以造福中小企业和当地社区。 这些计划反映了对利用物联网所需的时间和资源投资的理解，以便SMM将自己转变为“智能”制造商，提高生产力和能源效率，以更好地利用新市场。 在当地社区，这些计划反映了对物联网在劳动力教育、招聘和保留方面的潜在作用的理解。物联网有潜力提高社区的生活质量。 该项目将这些不同的观点结合在一起，为利益相关者之间的参与创造了一种新的语言，并在社区中为物联网技术和应用的公私投资创造了新的机会。这个位于俄亥俄州附近的项目可以作为小城镇和社区与当地大学和制造商合作和规划的典范，以实现利用物联网技术的社会效益。

Smart and connected systems are changing communities, work, and the home profoundly.  Automation over the past few decades has radically reshaped manufacturing, employment in manufacturing industries, and their local communities. The Internet of Things (IoT) will likely accelerate change, opening new opportunities and presenting new challenges. This grant brings together academic researchers in science, engineering, and business management at two universities, educators, community members and city leaders, and small-to-mid-sized manufacturers (SMM), all within a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, to plan for research, education, and workforce development in their community.This project develops action plans for research, education, and policy recommendations to benefit SMMs and the local community.  The plans reflect an understanding of the investment in time and resources required to leverage IoT in order for the SMMs to transform themselves into "smart" manufacturers with increased productivity and energy efficiency to better capitalize on new markets.  Within the local community, the plans reflect an understanding of the potential role of IoT in workforce education, recruitment, and retention. IoT has the potential to improve the quality of life of a community.  This project brings these different perspectives together, creating a new language for engagement among stakeholders and creating new opportunities in a community for public-private investment in IoT-enabled technologies and applications. This project in a neighborhood of Ohio may serve as a model for small towns and communities to work and plan with their local universities and manufacturers to achieve the societal benefits from leveraging IoT technologies.