IUCRC: Planning Grant: RIT: Center for Smart Spaces Research (CSSR)

智能空间的特点是存在基于新兴传感、计算和通信技术的智能服务。该计划拨款将创建一个由罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）和加州大学欧文分校（UCI）参与的多大学智能空间研究中心（CSSR）。CSSR采用综合方法，通过确保数据、知识和服务的可用性和可访问性，使它们具有通用性和适应性。这项规划拨款将确定研究挑战，以建立以应用为中心的智能空间。应用领域包括健康和疾病监测系统、智能建筑、公共空间和城市、关键任务系统、交通等。该中心的重点将放在与工业、大学和社会相关的四个主要领域：创建自适应计算和通信基础设施；数据和知识的可靠获取、处理、解释和可持续性；应用范围涵盖生活和环境的方方面面。RIT研究人员将与工业组织、技术开发人员和用户合作，目标是创建主动、可扩展、安全和高效的智能空间。规划拨款将确定挑战和研究任务，使智能空间适应多种应用。与工业界的合作将导致智能空间新应用的出现。CSSR的规划阶段将对RIT的研究方向和教学活动产生重大影响。研究活动将进行微调，使研究成果能够有效地转移到合作行业，重点是提高生活质量、加强公共卫生、节约能源和可持续性。将利用研讨会和与行业合作者的互动来招募和指导不同群体的学生。在RIT，来自不同背景的学生，包括来自国家聋人研究所（NTID）的学生，将接触到智能空间研究和开发中的挑战和解决方案。在不久的将来，智能空间和智能基础设施将影响到每一个人，并将极大地提高生活质量。CSSR在促进无障碍智能空间创新方面的活动将在未来世界发挥重要作用。规划阶段将作为会议、讨论和研讨会的平台，以确定指导智能空间发展的关键研究。CSSR将维护一个可公开访问的存储库，包括会议材料、研讨会信息、研究主题和详细信息以及出版物。在中心的生命周期内，该存储库将在RIT的一个可公开访问的URL上进行维护。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。

Smart spaces are characterized by the presence of smart services built on emerging sensing, computing, and communication technologies. This planning grant will create a multi-university Center for Smart Space Research (CSSR) involving Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI). CSSR takes an integrated approach to make them versatile and adaptable to situations by ensuring the availability and accessibility of data, knowledge, and services. This planning grant will identify research challenges to build application-focused smart spaces. Applications encompass health and disease monitoring systems, smart buildings, public spaces and cities, mission critical systems, transportation, and others. The center’s focus will be on four main areas of relevance to industry, university, and society: creation of adaptive computing and communications infrastructure; trustworthy acquisition, processing, interpretation and sustainability of data and knowledge; and applications that span all aspects of life and the environment. RIT researchers will engage in collaborations with industrial organizations, technology developers, and users, with an objective to create proactive, scalable, secure, and efficient smart spaces. The planning grant will identify challenges and research tasks to make smart spaces adaptable to multiple applications. Collaborations with industry will lead to the emergence of new applications of smart spaces. The planning phase of CSSR will significantly impact research directions and pedagogical activities at RIT. The research activities will be fine-tuned to enable effective transfer of research artifacts to the collaborating industries with an emphasis on applications to improve quality of life, enhance public health, conserve energy, and sustainability. Workshops and interactions with industry collaborators will be leveraged to recruit and mentor diverse groups of students. At RIT, students from diverse backgrounds, including those from the National Institute for the Deaf (NTID) will be exposed to challenges and solutions in the research and development of smart spaces. In the near future, access to smart spaces and smart infrastructure will impact every individual and will greatly improve quality of life. CSSR activities in fostering innovation in accessible smart spaces will play a major role in the future world. Planning phase will serve as a platform for meetings, discussions, and workshops, to identify critical research to guide the development of smart spaces. CSSR will maintain a publicly-accessible repository comprising meeting materials, workshop information, research topics and details, and publications. This repository will be maintained at a publicly accessible URL at RIT for the lifetime of the center.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.