Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities

每天都有更多的计算机设备连接到互联网。这些设备中的大多数至少有一个传感单元，为物理世界和基于计算机的系统之间的直接集成创造了机会。这是物联网（IoT）和智能城市背后的想法-互联网的发展，其中日常物品具有网络连接，允许它们发送和接收数据。想象一下，在一个城市里，路灯实时跟踪交通需求，工厂和汽车的空气污染是通过使用来自微型、廉价和节能传感器的数据来控制的。在不久的将来，无线传感器网络（WSNs）有望被集成到物联网中，从而集成到智慧城市中。传感基础设施在智能环境和巨大的研究机会中发挥着重要作用。传感器节点可以动态加入互联网并使用互联网进行协作并完成任务。被设计为物联网的未来互联网被预见为基于标准通信协议的唯一可寻址的互连对象的全球网络。传感器将在智慧城市中发挥至关重要的作用。绿色城市，从城市野生动物保护计划到城市农业和绿色交通网络，公民感知和智能城市项目正在兴起，试图通过更大的城市连通性实现更好的可持续性。与此同时，传感器节点市场继续快速增长，因为技术扩展导致构建定制节点的成本降低。此外，在智能手机、平板手机、平板电脑和移动的设备中使用嵌入式传感器已经实现了许多流行的应用。技术、工程和材料科学的进步为越来越复杂的传感器和传感器集成在环境和城市监测研究中的应用打开了大门。除了提高传感器集成，智能城市中的传感器概念还为尚未开发的应用打开了大门，这些应用无法使用特定/专用硬件进行构思，特别是在移动的设备领域。灵活的嵌入式传感器框架可以根据应用需求实时编程和重新编程，这是一个独特的特性，可以用于各种目的，包括提高应用速度，功率和成本。然而，这一新的研究领域的安全挑战也应该被审查。我提出了一个研究计划，通过开发一个智能城市的一般框架，从智能建筑开始，来弥补这些差距和挑战。我的长期目标是通过学术界和工业界的跨学科合作，为智能城市的节能和安全组件开发一个多传感器动态系统框架。同时，我将培养高素质的人才，以满足业界对网络工程师日益增长的需求.

Every day more computer-based devices are connected to the internet. Most of these devices have at least one sensing unit, creating opportunities for direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems. This is the idea behind Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities - a development of the Internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data. Imagine a city where the street lights follows the traffic requirements in real-time and the air pollution form factories and cars is controlled with the use of data coming from tiny, cheap and energy efficient sensors. In the near future, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are expected to be integrated into the IoT and consequently to smart cities. The sensing infrastructures have a major role in smart environment and great research opportunities. Sensor nodes can join the Internet dynamically and use it to collaborate and accomplish their tasks. The future Internet, designed as an IoT is foreseen to be a world-wide network of interconnected objects uniquely addressable, based on standard communication protocols. Sensors will have a crucial role in smart cities. Green cities, which span from urban wildlife initiatives to city agriculture and green transport networks, citizen sensing and smart cities projects are emerging that attempt to realize improved sustainability through greater urban connectivity.At the same time, the sensor node market continues to grow rapidly, as the cost to build custom nodes decreases due to technology scaling. Moreover, the use of embedded sensors in smartphones, phablets, tablets and mobile devices has enabled a number of popular applications. Advances in technology, engineering, and materials science have opened the door for increasingly sophisticated sensors and sensor integration to be used in environmental and urban monitoring research.Beyond improving sensor integration, the concept of sensor in smart cities opens the door to as yet unexplored applications that cannot be conceived using specific/ devoted hardware, especially in the field of mobile devices. A flexible embedded sensor framework can be programmed and re-programmed in real-time, based on application needs, a unique characteristic that can be exploited for varied purposes, including improving application speed, power and cost. However, the security challenges of this new research area should be examined as well.I propose a research program to comfort these gaps and challenges through the development of a general framework for smart cities, starting from smart buildings. My long-term objective is to develop a multi-sensor dynamic system framework for energy efficient and secure components of the smart cities, through interdisciplinary collaborations in academia and industry. Also, I will train high- quality personnel who can satiate industry's growing demand for network engineers.