CCRI: New: RUI: Testbed as-a Service: A Sandbox for Fostering Smart and Connected City Research & Development

智能走廊+是建立在查塔努加市范围内的10gbps光纤互联网上的，包括城市道路段和高速公路段。城市部分包括现有的MLK智能走廊，这是一条1.25英里长的查塔努加步行城市核心，由田纳西大学查塔努加分校（UTC）和查塔努加智能社区合作组织开发。高速公路部分是HWY27的2.5英里，在MLK智能走廊的东角有进出坡道。目标是在智能走廊+上建立一个测试平台即服务（TaaS）研究基础设施。这将使研究项目能够访问代表城市环境的综合数据，并促进在大规模和现实环境中部署、测试和验证算法。这种可编程和可访问的异构基础设施跨越多种道路类型和技术，并共同提供基本的物联网、多种通信技术、边缘计算、2级和4级连接/自动驾驶汽车以及软件服务。一个门户网站将允许科学家访问数据，并使用拟议的TaaS进行具体的实验。研究项目将侧重于创新物联网应用，以改善城市交通、公共安全、智能基础设施和无法执行的人/设备行为分析。该项目将举办社区活动、会议、黑客马拉松和研讨会，以招募各种各样的用户。咨询委员会和用户社区指导委员会（UCSC）将确保基础设施将使研究人员和利益相关者（包括居民）受益。拟议的基础设施和重点研究项目将用于支持各级学生（研究生，本科生和高中）和研究人员的多种STEM教育和研究机会，这将有助于为智慧城市，公共安全，物联网，交通和通信行业培养高度竞争和多样化的STEM劳动力。教育活动包括改进研究生教育，研究生，本科生和K-12研究经验，并扩大参与。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 Corridor+, which is built on Chattanooga’s city-wide 10 Gbps fiber optic Internet, contains an urban road segment as well as a freeway segment. The urban portion includes the existing MLK Smart Corridor, which is a 1.25-mile stretch of Chattanooga’s walkable urban core developed by University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) and the Chattanooga Smart Community Collaborative. The freeway portion is 2.5-miles of HWY27 with on and off ramps on the east corner of the MLK Smart Corridor. The goal is to build a Testbed-as-a-Service (TaaS) research infrastructure on Smart Corridor+. This will allow research projects by enabling access to comprehensive data representing an urban environment and facilitating deployment, testing, and validating algorithms in a large-scale and real-world setting. This programmable and accessible heterogeneous infrastructure spans multiple road types and technologies and collectively provides essential IoT, diverse communication technologies, and edge computing, Level-2 and Level-4 connected/autonomous vehicles, and software services. A web portal will allow scientists to access data and carry out specific experiments using the proposed TaaS. Research projects will focus on innovative IoT applications for improved urban mobility, public safety, smart infrastructure, and human/device behavioral analysis that cannot be otherwise performed. This project will host community events, conferences, hackathons, and workshops to recruit a diverse pool of users. An Advisory Board and a User Community Steering Committee (UCSC) will ensure that the infrastructure will benefit researchers and stakeholders, including residents. The proposed infrastructure and focused research projects will be leveraged to support multiple STEM education and research opportunities for all levels of students (graduate, undergraduate and high school) and researchers that will help develop a highly competitive and diverse STEM workforce for smart cities, public safety, IoT, transportation, and communication industries. The educational activities include improved graduate education, graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 research experiences, and broaden participation.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.