NSF Workshop on Internet-of-Things (IoT) Hardware Systems

本项目支持一个研讨会，以确定研究方向，并建立一个物联网硬件系统的研究社区。物联网硬件系统结合了网络中的无线、低功耗传感器和执行器节点以及雾和云计算。它们提供了丰富的数据集，可用于实时监测、控制和决策。物联网系统广泛用于工业、交通、医疗保健和其他应用。随着物联网系统的范围和复杂性的增加，新的研究挑战出现了，需要新的成果和新的跨学科合作。研讨会将邀请在物联网相关领域具有广泛专业知识的研究人员参加。与会者将合作编写一份报告，确定物联网硬件系统中的关键挑战和机遇，以及开展这项研究所需的重要资源。研讨会汇集了来自传感器网络、超大规模集成电路、通信、信号处理等相关学科的研究人员。该研讨会将有助于建立一个物联网研究人员社区。研讨会将包括研究生参加者，以扩大教育影响。研讨会组织者将努力建立一个包容性的研讨会参与者。研讨会将包括一场关于物联网研究中的多样性问题的会议。研讨会的演讲将通过广播进行广泛传播。讲习班报告将广泛分发。研讨会参加者将根据提交的白皮书进行公开征集。讲习班的介绍将利用视像会议工具在互联网上播出。研讨会可能感兴趣的主题包括：VLSI物联网设备架构；物联网设备超低功耗设计；物联网通信与组网；物联网设备和系统的新兴技术；功率和带宽约束下的分布式算法物联网在制造、交通、医疗、智慧社区等领域的应用；安全可靠的物联网系统；物联网系统中的数据科学挑战；机器学习和人工智能使用物联网。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。

This project supports a workshop to identify research directions and build a research community for Internet-of-Things (IoT) hardware systems. IoT hardware systems combine wireless, low-power sensor and actuator nodes in networks along with fog and cloud computing. They provide rich data sets that can be used for real-time monitoring, control, and decision-making. IoT systems are widely used for industrial, transportation, health care, and other applications. As IoT systems increase in scope and complexity, new research challenges arise that require new results and novel interdisciplinary collaborations. The workshop will involve researchers with expertise in a wide range of topics relevant to IoT. The attendees will collaborate to develop a report identifying key challenges and opportunities in IoT hardware systems as well as important resources needed to carry out this research. The workshop convens researchers from related disciplines: sensor networks, VLSI, communication, signal processing, etc. The workshop will help to build a community of IoT researchers. The workshop will include graduate student attendees to broaden educational impact. The workshop organizers will strive to build an inclusive set of workshop attendees. The workshop will include a session on diversity issues in IoT research. Talks from the workshop will be broadcast for wider dissemination. The workshop report will be broadly distributed. Workshop attendees will be selected on the basis of white papers submitted to an open call. Workshop presentations will be broadcast on the Internet using video-conferencing tools. Topics of potential interest to the workshop include: VLSI IoT device architectures; ultra-low power design for IoT devices; IoT communication and networking; emerging technologies for IoT devices and systems; distributed algorithms under power and bandwidth constraints; IoT applications in manufacturing, transportation, health care, smart communities, etc.; safe and secure IoT systems; data science challenges in IoT systems; machine learning and AI using IoT.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.