Applications of CPS technologies essential for the functioning of a society and economy.
This Frontier award supports the SONYC project, a smart cities initiative focused on developing a cyber-physical system (CPS) for the monitoring, analysis and mitigation of urban noise pollution. Noise pollution is one of the topmost quality of life issues for urban residents in the U.S. with proven effects on health, education, the economy, and the environment. Yet, most cities lack the resources for continuously monitoring noise and understanding the contribution of individual sources, the tools to analyze patterns of noise pollution at city-scale, and the means to empower city agencies to take effective, data-driven action for noise mitigation. The SONYC project advances novel technological and socio-technical solutions that help address these needs.
SONYC includes a distributed network of both sensors and people for large-scale noise monitoring. The sensors use low-cost, low-power technology, and cutting-edge machine listening techniques, to produce calibrated acoustic measurements and recognizing individual sound sources in real time. Citizen science methods are used to help urban residents connect to city agencies and each other, understand their noise footprint, and facilitate reporting and self-regulation. Crucially, SONYC utilizes big data solutions to analyze, retrieve and visualize information from sensors and citizens, creating a comprehensive acoustic model of the city that can be used to identify significant patterns of noise pollution. This data can in turn be used to drive the strategic application of noise code enforcement by city agencies, in a way that optimally reduces noise pollution. The entire system, integrating cyber, physical and social infrastructure, forms a closed loop of continuous sensing, analysis and actuation on the environment.
SONYC is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at New York University and Ohio State University. It provides multiple educational opportunities to students at all levels, including an outreach initiative for K-12 STEM education. The project uses New York City as its focal point, involving partnerships with the city's Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the business improvement district of Lower Manhattan, and ARUP, one of the world's leaders in environmental acoustics. SONYC is an innovative and high-impact application of cyber-physical systems to the realm of smart cities, and potentially a catalyst for new CPS research at the intersection of engineering, data science and the social sciences. It provides a blueprint for the mitigation of noise pollution that can be applied to cities in the US and abroad, potentially affecting the quality of life of millions of people.
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New York University
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National Science Foundation
Claudio Silva
Roger DuBois
Juan Bello
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HONET-ICT 2017
14th HONET-ICT International Conference "Smart Cities: Improving Quality of Life-Using ICT & IoT"
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The 5th Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2017)
Funchal, Portugal - December 6-7, 2017
https://sustainit2017.m-iti.org
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ELECO 2017
10th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Aim and Scope
The conference aims to provide a forum for electrical and electronics engineers and scientists in academia and industry to present their works and to share their experiences in the area of electrical and electronics engineering.
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ICESS 2017
14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2017)
Sydney, Australia | August 1-4, 2017 | http://www.stprp-activity.com/ICESS2017
Co-Located with IEEE TrustCom and IEEE BigDataSE
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2017
Final paper submission: June 1, 2017
As the fastest growing industry, embedded systems have great societal and environmental impacts.
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Resilience Week 2017
Resilience Week 2017
Wilmington, DE | September 18 - 22, 2017 | http://www.resilienceweek.com/
Resilience Week includes IEEE technically co-sponsored symposia dedicated to promising research in resilient systems that will protect cyber-physical infrastructures from unexpected and malicious threats – securing our way of life.
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E3PE 2017
First International Conference on Energy, Power, Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering (E3PE 2017)
You are invited to participate in The First International Conference on Energy, Power, Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering (E3PE 2017) that will be held in Faculty of Engineering, Lebanese University, Campus of Hadath, Beirut, Lebanon on April 26-28, 2017. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.