Conference: Enabling the Implementation of Integrated and Scalable Smart Cities

不到十年前，智慧城市的前景似乎是无限的，并且有机会通过应用摄像头和物联网（IoT）传感器等技术来改善市民的生活质量，并通过人工智能（AI）层来简化和优化运营和结果。从那时起，它的光芒就消失了。项目往往没有经过试点阶段，是针对具体应用和具体情况的，没有大规模实施，在设计、规划或运营期间没有明确整合社区投入，而且主要由孤立的平台或运营系统组成，没有整合。为了解决这些问题，我们将举办一个研讨会，重点讨论与现实环境中智慧城市技术、方法和/或部署的集成和可扩展性有关的重大技术、政策和社会经济挑战。上述整合和/或扩展的当前障碍可能也与当前的政策/法规、融资和劳动力差距有关，因此，它们将被考虑为研究议程提供信息。研讨会将讨论可扩展性和集成挑战的潜在解决方案，以帮助指导未来NSF在智慧城市部署方面的投资。研讨会将与来自美国各地的不同利益相关者（包括农村、城市和郊区的观点）举行一系列在线“倾听会议”，以更好地了解我们对上述挑战的理解。我们将利用这些聆听会议来制定一套研究问题，这些问题将在面对面的研讨会上得到完善，我们将讨论可扩展性和集成挑战（技术和非技术）的潜在解决方案，以帮助指导未来NSF在智慧城市部署方面的投资。本次研讨会将通过吸引来自学术界、政府、非营利组织、社区倡导、私有财产所有者、民间机构和行业的参与者，促进与不同基础设施系统相关的一系列智慧城市应用的融合。对于每一个应用领域（如能源、交通、水等），我们将汇集来自工程、公共政策、计算机科学、社会和决策科学的专业知识，以及来自社区领导人和合作伙伴的直接投入。本次研讨会的主要智力价值将是制定一份总结报告，概述多学科研究议程（差距、问题和拟议的研究任务），以克服在多方利益相关者讨论中确定的可扩展性和集成挑战。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。

Less than ten years ago, the promise of smart cities seemed endless and ripe with opportunity to improve citizen quality of life through application of technologies such as cameras and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors with a layer of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline and optimize operations and outcomes. Since that time, the shine has worn off. Projects often do not go past the pilot stage, are application and context specific, are not implemented at scale, do not explicitly integrate community input during design, planning or operation, and largely consist of isolated platforms or systems of operation without integration. To address these issues, we will hold a workshop focusing on the significant technical, policy and socioeconomic challenges with respect to the integration and scalability of smart city technologies, approaches and/or deployments in real-world settings. Current barriers to integration and/or scaling of the above are likely also related to current policy/regulations, financing, and workforce gaps and as such, they will be considered to inform the research agenda. The workshop will discuss potential solutions to the scalability and integration challenges to help guide future NSF investments in smart cities deployments.The workshop will convene a series of online “listening sessions” with diverse stakeholders from around the United States, including rural, urban and suburban perspectives, to better inform our understanding of the aforementioned challenges. We will use these listening sessions to develop a set of research questions which will be refined in an in-person workshop where we will discuss potential solutions to the scalability and integration challenges (technical and non-technical) to help guide future NSF investments in smart cities deployments. This workshop will foster convergence by engaging participants from academia, government, non-profits, community advocacy, private property owners, civic agencies, and industry, across a range of smart city applications relative to different infrastructure systems. For each of these application areas (such as energy, transportation, water, etc.), we will bring together expertise from engineering, public policy, computer science, and social and decision science, as well as direct input from community leaders and partners. The main intellectual merit of this workshop will be the development of a summary report outlining a multi-disciplinary research agenda (gaps, questions, and proposed research tasks) to overcome the scalability and integration challenges identified throughout the multi-stakeholder discussions.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.