UKCRIC - CORONA: City Observatory Research platfOrm for iNnovation and Analytics

科罗纳项目将提供所需的研究和技术资源，以支持和释放英国对城市观测的投资的研究潜力。城市创造了该国绝大多数的财富，每年对其基础设施的投资高达数十亿美元。城市是复杂的实体，具有动态和相互作用的基础设施、社会和环境方面。研究通常集中在单个部门和有限的时间范围内，因此无法了解相互交织的过程和系统。UKRCIC天文台设备赠款为在整个城市范围内部署传感器和观测设备提供了资源，以便在很长一段时间内监测前所未有的各种变量、系统和过程。科罗纳利用智能城市技术和物联网的进步来使这些天文台成为可能。然而，我们不仅仅是以一种“智能”的方式使用这些数据来优化城市功能(例如交通系统)的运行，而是使用这些数据来建立对城市和基础设施在短期和长期内的复杂性的长期理解。科罗纳将通过发展对如何将科学严谨性应用于观察和学习(正如人们可能在典型的实验室中预期的那样)来测量城市并开始拆解这些模式来实现这一点，从而使决策者、政策制定者、公民和科学家能够提高他们对城市运行方式的理解。最终，CORONA和UKCRIC设备赠款建立的研究基础将使我们能够共同努力，做出更好的投资决策，并清楚地了解我们在城市地区选择的潜在影响。为了实现我们的长期愿景，我们需要在城市传感科学、数据的收集、管理和治理方面奠定坚实的基础，并建立工作实践，使地方当局、公用事业公司、科学家、公民和政策制定者能够共同努力。在科罗纳，我们的城市面临的关键社会挑战将被解决(空气质量、能源、住房)，作为一种手段，以了解城市监测的实际方面，并更清楚地了解这种新的“城市科学和工程”如何能够做出更好的决策，从而提高生活质量和造福经济。

The CORONA project will provide the research and technical resource needed to support and unlock the research potential of the UKCRIC investment in Urban Observatories.Cities generate the vast majority of the country's wealth and investment in its infrastructure amounts to billions each year. Cities are complex entities, with dynamic and interacting infrastructure, social and environmental aspects. Research typically focuses on single sectors, and limited timeframes and therefore is unable to understand the interwoven processes and systems. The UKRCIC Observatories equipment grant has provided resource for sensors and observation equipment to be deployed at the whole city-scale to monitor over long timeframes an unprecedented range of variables, systems and processes. CORONA uses advances in 'smart city' technologies and the Internet of Things to enable these Observatories. However, we are not just using this data in a 'smart' way to optimise the operation of city functions (e.g. transport systems), rather using this data to build a long term understanding of the complexity of cities and infrastructure in their short and long term. CORONA will achieve this by developing an understanding of how to apply scientific rigour to observation and learning (as one might expect in a typical laboratory) to measure a city and to start to unpick these patterns to enable decision makers, policy setters, citizens and scientists improve their understanding of how cities operate. Ultimately the research foundations put in place by CORONA and the UKCRIC equipment grants will enable us to collectively, make better decisions on investment and have a clear understanding of the potential impacts of our choices within urban areas.To achieve our long term vision we need a solid foundation in the science of urban sensing, the collection, management and governance of the data and to establish working practices that enable local authorities, utilities, scientists, citizens and policy makers to work together. In CORONA key societal challenges facing our cities will be addressed (Air Quality, Energy, Housing) as a means to understand the practical aspects of urban monitoring and to develop a clearer picture of how this new 'urban sciences and engineering' can enable better decisions to be made that will improve quality of life and benefit the economy.