Sustainable cloud-based M2M smart home

机器对机器（M2M）通信范式是一种无需人工干预的自动设备之间的新型自动数据交换，对于网络化社会至关重要，并且正在塑造未来互联网和物联网的发展-通过连接无生命物体来增加互联网的普及的下一步。M2M应用的关键推动因素是提供无限计算能力的云计算，以及增强无线网络性能和效率的下一代无线技术。该项目将与爱立信和精电科技合作，为家庭自动化应用研究和开发新的智能和可持续的M2M技术。依托电信云平台和电信级M2M通信服务的最新成果，在M2M和家庭自动化应用中考虑人工智能和绿色ICT方法，将房屋转换为网络对象的智能移动的云，优化资源使用并适应人类行为。环境意识将是研究主题的重点，以补充我们之前在云效率和中性碳网络方面的工作。提出的基于云的方法允许多个家庭和用户共享资源，并相互交互，以共同优化智能大学校园中网络社区的成本和环境影响。这一模式将成为建立新的智慧城市技术的基石，这些技术在很大程度上被认为是加拿大社会新兴领域的创新驱动力，如健康、环境、包容性和商业。这将特别有助于更好地阐明互联网和用户驱动的创新在可持续经济增长和高质量生活中的决定性作用。该项目的成果将直接作为研究原型，为蒙特利尔创新区开发更大规模的可持续智能城市。这是加拿大首个智慧城市模型，将有助于推动加拿大和魁北克ICT行业的发展，与世界上最前沿的智慧城市保持一致，如斯德哥尔摩的皇家海港和伦敦的未来城市弹射器。

The Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications paradigm, a novel automated exchange of data among autonomous devices without human intervention, is crucial for the networked society and is shaping the evolution of the future Internet and the Internet of Things - the next step in increasing the ubiquity of the Internet, by connecting inanimate objects. The key enablers of M2M applications are cloud computing which provides unlimited computing capabilities, and next-generation wireless technologies which enhance performance and efficiency of wireless networks. This project, in partnership with Ericsson and Varitron Technologies, will investigate and develop new smart and sustainable M2M technologies for home automation applications. Relying on state-of-the-art achievements on Telco cloud platforms and carrier-grade M2M communication service, artificial intelligence and green ICT methodologies will be considered in M2M and home automation applications to convert a house into a smart mobile cloud of networked objects which are optimized in terms of resource usage and adaptive to human behavior. Environmental awareness will be at the focus of the research themes, to complement our prior work on cloud efficiency and neutral-carbon network. The proposed cloud-based approach allows multiple homes and users to share resources, and interact to each other, in order to jointly optimize costs and environmental impacts of a networked community in a smart university campus. This model will constitute a cornerstone to build new smart city technologies, which are largely considered as innovation drivers in emerging areas of Canadian society such as health, environment, inclusion and business. This will shed more light in particular on defining role of the Internet and user-driven innovation in sustainable economic growth and a high quality of life. The outcome of this project will directly serve as a research prototype to develop a sustainable smart city, at a larger scale, for Montreal Innovation District. This first smart city model in Canada will help advance Canada and Quebec ICT sector, in alignment with forefront smart cities in the world, like Stockholm's Royal Seaport and London's Future Cities Catapult.