Planning IUCRC Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Center for Networked Embedded, Smart and Trusted Things (NESTT)

南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔分校计划与亚利桑那州立大学、亚利桑那大学、南加州大学和康涅狄格大学合作，组建一个新的NSF工业大学合作研究中心（IUCRC），用于网络、嵌入式、智能和可信赖的事物（NESTT）。NESTT中心的愿景是通过将技术学科与法律、商业和人文等其他领域的专业知识相结合，专注于创造整体物联网（IoT）解决方案，为公平、安全、可靠的互联世界的发展做出贡献。该计划资助的目的是组织行业合作伙伴和参与的大学，概述研究议程并探索行业承诺。在IUCRC规划会议上，SIUC的教师将展示他们跨学科的研究兴趣，涵盖嵌入式系统、网络、边缘和云计算、智能电网、机器学习、数据分析和安全等技术领域。将为交通、智慧城市、能源和医疗保健开发创新的高性能、可信赖和安全的物联网解决方案。非工程学科的研究人员，特别是隐私、商业秘密权利和合同权利的研究人员，可以参与中心的活动。如果规划会议取得成功，SIUC和NESTT合作大学的努力将有助于实施物联网解决方案，提高生活质量和可持续性。通过在嵌入式、网络化、可信和安全的事物中进行整体多学科设计和创新，降低采用物联网技术的障碍，我们的努力将有助于实现物联网的全部潜力，并带来显著的经济、社会和环境回报。规划会议将探讨如何扩大代表性不足的学生的参与。例如，SIUC将参与通过卓越和多样性项目在工程方面取得成功。NESTT - IUCRC规划会议和研讨会的议程、参与者名单和活动将发布在SIUC的嵌入式系统联盟（CES）网站https://ces.siu.edu上。一旦NESTT成立，CES将与NESTT网站合并。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Southern Illinois University Carbondale plans to work together with Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, the University of Southern California, and the University of Connecticut to form a new NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Networked, Embedded, Smart and Trusted Things (NESTT). The vision of the NESTT Center is to contribute to the development of an equitable, safe and secure connected world, focusing on creating holistic Internet of Things (IoT) solutions by integrating technology disciplines with expertise in other areas such as law, business, and humanities.This planning grant's objective is to organize with industry partners and the participating universities to outline a research agenda and explore industry commitment. At the IUCRC planning meeting, SIUC faculty will present their interdisciplinary research interests, spanning the technology areas of embedded systems, networking, edge and cloud computing, smart grid, machine learning, data analytics, and security. Innovative high performance, trustworthy, and secure IoT solutions for transportation, smart cities, energy, and healthcare will be developed. Researchers in non-engineering disciplines, particularly privacy, trade secret rights, and contractual rights, may engage in the Center's activities.If the planning meeting is successful, the efforts of SIUC and partner universities in NESTT could help implement IoT solutions that will improve the quality of life and sustainability. Lowering the barriers to the adoption of IoT technologies through holistic multidisciplinary design and innovation in embedded, networked, trusted, and secure things, our efforts will help realize the full potential of the IoT, and deliver significant economic, societal and environmental returns. The planning meeting will explore ways to broaden the participation of underrepresented students. For example, SIUC will engage with the Success in Engineering through Excellence and Diversity program.The agenda, list of participants, and activities of the NESTT IUCRC planning meeting and workshops will be posted on SIUC's website for the Consortium for Embedded Systems (CES), https://ces.siu.edu. Once NESTT is established, CES will be merged with the NESTT site.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.