EAGER: Smart Community Big Data Co-op

虽然许多社区已经部署了提供智能社区服务所需的关键组件，但许多城市目前缺乏必要的数据平台或员工专业知识来处理收集、分析或共享智能社区数据的复杂性。随着传感器、车辆和其他来源提供更多的实时数据，这一挑战将变得更加困难。如果没有这样的平台，再加上沿着的建模和可视化工具，智能城市技术的前景将仍然无法实现，特别是对于较小或低收入的社区。大数据分析工具已成为智能社区解决方案的关键缺失环节，各种计算机科学学科、行业研究人员和市政府沿着越来越需要分享最佳实践和最佳工具。创建一种允许开发安全，开放，灵活和可扩展的智能社区大数据解决方案的方法将产生持久的社会影响。通过智慧社区大数据合作组织（The Co-op），美国智慧社区将利用其100个城市、大学、行业和非营利合作伙伴来设计、构建和使用大数据共享的重要能力，以增强当地智慧社区的努力，并提供更好的社区服务。社区希望快速识别其实时数据、应用程序和建模工具中的当前差距，以便与当地合作伙伴一起设计一个有凝聚力的智能社区战略。目前的努力将扩展这一公式，推出新形式的智能社区研究，应用程序和服务，通过开放数据和数据分析使最终用户受益。美国国家科学基金会将确保各方在支持大数据和智能社区应用方面的利益一致。该奖项反映了NSF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。

While many communities have deployed key components needed to deliver smart community services, many cities currently lack the necessary data platforms or staff expertise to handle the complexities of gathering, analyzing, or sharing smart community data. This challenge will become significantly more difficult as sensors, vehicles, and other sources provide more real-time data. Without such platforms, along with modeling and visualization tools, the promise of smart city technologies will remain unattainable, especially for smaller or low-income communities. Big data analytic tools have become a critical missing link to smart community solutions and there is a growing demand from a variety of computer science disciplines, along with industry researchers and municipal governments, to share best practices and best-of-breed tools. Creating an approach that allows for the development of secure, open, flexible, and scalable smart community big data solutions will have lasting societal impact. Through the Smart Community Big Data Co-operative (the Co-op), US Ignite will leverage its 100 city, university, industry, and nonprofit partners to design, build and use the important capability of big data sharing to enhance local smart community efforts and generate enhanced community services. Communities are looking to quickly identify current gaps in their real-time data, applications, and modeling tools to design a cohesive smart community strategy with local partners. This current effort will extend this formula to launch new forms of smart community research, applications, and services that benefit end users through open data and data analytics. US Ignite will ensure alignment among all parties interests in supporting big data and smart community applications.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.