IUCRC Phase I Arizona State University: Center for Intelligent, Distributed, Embedded, Applications and Systems (IDEAS)

物联网设备-超过430亿的使用-使我们的生活更轻松。今天的设备主要用于观察、收集和传输数据，以便在其他地方进行分析。IDEAS中心将推动当前的技术，使设备能够分析数据，从数据中学习，做出决策，并与其他设备协调执行这些决策。这些更智能的设备将彻底改变生活的各个方面：医疗保健，基础设施，农业，电子商务，交通，微电子，制造业，娱乐，航空航天等等。IDEAS将与所有这些行业的公司合作，以改善他们的商业实践，并为他们提供接受这些技术培训的员工。IDEAS的工作，“智能，分布式，嵌入式应用程序和系统”，解决了目前互联网双层结构的基本挑战（一端是用户端设备，另一端是数据中心），演变成一个庞大的分布式计算机网络，将提供计算即服务。关键行业的公司必须利用物联网、边缘云基础设施、5G通信、微电子和智能计算融合带来的潜在新兴机遇。ASU-IDEAS将专注于特定领域的机器人技术，边缘AI/ML加速器的软硬件协同设计，边缘智能传感器以及分布式边缘云计算系统的设计-所有这些都旨在实现可持续计算的极端能源效率。IDEAS的技术将有助于通过计算机访问数据、信息和决策，就像道路、公共交通、医院和其他公共服务一样普遍和普遍，这些都是我们日常生活的一部分。该技术还将具有极高的能源效率，因此企业不仅可以从根本上提高运营效率，还可以使企业更具环境可持续性。IDEAS将培训来自社会各阶层的未来工程师和科学家，以进一步推进这些技术。合作指导将促进学生之间的创业研究，以促进下一代突破性的发现。IDEAS将建立和维护一个单一的中心范围内的数据存储库。将在IUCRC I期和中心运营的任何后续年份中保留。它将遵循IUCRC保护、记录和报告数据的最佳实践。虽然最初它将基于云，但我们将根据需要集成任何物理基础设施要求，如服务器或其他硬件。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。

Internet of Things devices – more than 43 billion in use – make our lives easier. Today’s devices mostly watch, collect, and transmit data to be analyzed elsewhere. The IDEAS Center will drive current technology to enable devices to analyze the data, learn from data, make decisions, and act on those decisions in coordination with other devices. These smarter devices will revolutionize every aspect of life: healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, e-commerce, transportation, microelectronics, manufacturing, entertainment, aerospace, and many more. IDEAS will collaborate with companies in all these industries to improve their business practices and provide them with employees trained in these technologies.IDEAS’ work, “Intelligent, Distributed, Embedded Applications and Systems,” addresses fundamental challenges as the present two-layer structure of the internet (user-end devices at one end and data centers at the other), evolves into a massive, distributed network of computers that will provide computing as a service. Companies in critical industries must exploit possible emerging opportunities as IoT, edge-cloud infrastructure, 5G communications, microelectronics, and intelligent computing converge. ASU-IDEAS will focus on domain-specific robotics, hardware-software codesign of AI/ML accelerators at the edge, intelligent sensors at the edge, and design of distributed edge-cloud computing systems – all targeting extreme energy efficiency for sustainable computing. IDEAS’ technologies will help make access to data, information, and decision-making through computers as pervasive and commonplace as roads, public transportation, hospitals, and other public services that are part and parcel of our daily lives. The technology will also be extremely energy efficient so that businesses can not only radically improve their operating efficiency, but also make their enterprises more environmentally sustainable. IDEAS will train future engineers and scientists from all segments of society to further advance these technologies. Collaborative mentoring will promote entrepreneurial research among the students to foster the next generation of ground-breaking discoveries.IDEAS will build and maintain a single Center-wide data repository. It will be maintained for IUCRC Phase I and for any subsequent years of center operation. It will be developed following IUCRC best practices for securing, documenting, and reporting data. While initially it will be cloud-based, we will integrate any physical infrastructure requirements such as servers or other hardware as needed. Strong password protection and duo-authentication properties will be integrated as needed.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.