Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities: A Platform Grant

该平台赠款的重点是将可穿戴系统与智能城市和建筑管理系统联网，并处理收集的数据。该平台将涵盖基础设施和设备，并需要硬件和软件的创新，以实现以人为本的智慧城市的目标。该平台的主题和基础研究主题需要采用多学科方法，而南安普顿大学电子和计算机科学系研究小组的独特专业知识可以提供这种方法。这些技术的应用将有助于有效地收集、交流和处理这些数据，从而实现人群感知活动等应用，或者允许，例如，为用户提供超个性化的服务，以丰富他们在工作和休闲时的体验。这种能力将允许他们购买个性化服务（例如医疗保健，娱乐，时尚），实现参与式传感计划以支持智能城市应用（例如实时交通更新，污染监测），或帮助协调重大灾害期间的疏散。将可穿戴传感器与智能建筑管理系统相结合，可以提供对建筑物内环境的分布式感知，并监控用户活动和健康状况，以提高建筑服务（例如供暖和通风）的有效性和效率。这样的能力也将成为一个重要的研究工具，以帮助我们了解建筑居住者behavior.Key研究的挑战存在于开发用户友好的无处不在的能源约束的可穿戴系统和接口这些可靠和安全的外部网络。可穿戴传感器和设备将把个人置于智慧城市的中心，并使交互水平发生阶跃变化。因此，必须开发出健壮、灵活的算法和机制，以科普传感器和网络中可能出现的潜在故障。将人工智能与传感器相结合，使智能交互代理能够形成能够解决问题和解释信息的多代理系统。这些发展将支撑自主系统，有利于新兴的物联网（IoT），并实现下一代智慧城市应用。在这些关键的专业领域，一个支持该小组的灵活的筹资平台将使开创性工作和追求新的机会成为可能。

The focus of this Platform Grant is the combination of wearable systems networked with smart city and building management systems, and the processing of the collected data. The Platform will cover infrastructure and devices and will require innovation in hardware and software in order to realise the goal of a people centred smart city. The topic of the Platform and the underpinning research themes require a multidisciplinary approach that can be provided by the unique expertise of the research group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.Applications of the technologies will enable effective collection, communication, and processing of this data that, in turn, will enable applications such as crowdsensing activities or allow, for example, the provisioning of ultra-personalised services for users to enrich their experience as they navigate their environment, and engage in work and leisure. Such a capability would allow them to purchase personalised services (e.g. healthcare, entertainment, fashion), enable participatory sensing initiatives to support smart city applications (e.g. real-time traffic updates, pollution monitoring), or help coordinate evacuations during major disasters. Combining wearable sensors with intelligent building management systems can provide distributed sensing of the environment within the building as well as monitoring user activity and wellbeing in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of building services (e.g. heating, and ventilation). Such a capability will also become an important research tool to aid in our understanding of building occupant behaviour.Key research challenges exist in developing user-friendly ubiquitous energy-constrained wearable systems and interfacing these reliably and securely with external networks. Wearable sensors and devices will place individuals at the centre of the smart city and enable a step change in the level of interaction possible. It is essential to develop robust, agile algorithms and mechanisms that can cope with potential failures that may arise in the sensors and networks. Combining AI with sensors enables intelligent interacting agents that can form multi-agent systems exceptionally capable of solving problems and interpreting information. Such developments will underpin autonomous systems, benefit the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) and enable the next generation of smart city applications. A flexible funding Platform underpinning the group in these crucial areas of expertise will enable pioneering work and the pursuit of emerging opportunities.