CC* Integration: SENSELET: Sensory Network Infrastructure for Scientific Laboratory Environments

科学仪器（如扫描电子显微镜）被广泛用于发现新材料、开发新的半导体器件制造配方和执行新的生物过程。加速科学发现的一种方法是为科学家提供先进的网络基础设施，以便从科学实验室环境中捕获、传输、存储、共享、分析和关联尽可能多的环境元数据（例如湿度、温度）。目前的网络基础设施不能捕获仪器周围的任何外部无线传感数据。最近出现的低成本、基于云的传感器，以及各种无线网络技术、低成本移动和个人设备以及物联网（IoT）解决方案的引入，为在各种科学实验室环境中自动化传感器数据收集提供了新颖可行的途径。SENSELET是一种用于科学实验室环境的传感器网络基础设施，其目标是(a)在科学仪器附近部署多种无线和可扩展的传感器基础设施，以及(b)实时和按需将传感器数据与基于云的仪器数据和元数据关联和同步。SENSELET基础设施将提供额外的测量，这将提高科学结果的准确性，并为实验室管理人员提供更好的环境监测和实验室控制。SENSELET基础设施将包括(a)无线传感器，如湿度、温度和振动传感器；(b)实验室内具有多个无线通信接口的边缘计算设备；(c)私有云计算服务，用于实时或按需存储传感器数据并将其与仪器数据关联起来。SENSELET将提供可靠的实时仪器数据上传、管理、搜索和协调服务。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。

Scientific instruments (e.g., scanning electron microscopes) are extensively used todiscover new materials, develop novel semiconductor device fabrication recipes, and perform new biological processes.One way to speed up scientific discoveries is to provide scientists with advanced cyber-infrastructures to capture, transmit,store, share, analyze, and correlate as much environmental metadata (e.g., humidity, temperature)from scientific lab environments as possible. Current network infrastructure does not captureany external wireless sensory data around the instruments.The recent advent of low-cost, cloud-based sensors and the introduction of diverse wireless networktechnologies, low-cost mobile and personal devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provide anovel and viable path for automating sensory data collection in diverse science laboratory environments.SENSELET, a SEnsory Network infrastructure for SciEntific Lab EnvironmenTs, has the goals of (a)deploying a diverse wireless and scalable sensory infrastructure close to scientific instruments, and (b)correlating and synchronizing sensory data with cloud-based instrument data and metadata in real-timeand on-demand. The SENSELET infrastructure will provide additional measurements that will increaseaccuracy of scientific results, and enable better environmental monitoring and control of labs for labmanagers. The SENSELET infrastructure will include (a) wireless sensors such as humidity, temperature,and vibration sensors; (b) an edge computing device with multiple wireless communication interfacesresiding in the lab; and (c) private cloud computing service to storeand correlate sensory data with instrument data in real-time or on-demand. SENSELET willprovide trusted and real-time instrument data uploading, curation, search, and coordination services.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.