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News Release 15-103
Cultivating smart and connected communities
NSF exhibits commitments in support of White House Smart Cities Initiative
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NSF has long supported the fundamental research that underlies smart and connected communities, including advanced networking and connectivity; sensing and real-time data analytics; and control, automation, and decision-making. The agency has also been instrumental in transitioning these technologies to widespread use, as in the case of the US Ignite initiative, which seeded the development of numerous new gigabit applications, from improved regional radar systems to interactive fitness apps. Today, NSF announced nearly $40 million in funding commitments that continues to expand upon NSF's existing leadership in enabling smart and connected communities.
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The agency has also been instrumental in transitioning these technologies to widespread use, as in the case of the US Ignite initiative, which seeded the development of numerous new gigabit applications, from improved regional radar systems to interactive fitness apps.
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New system designs and technologies that learn from data are bringing intelligence to service systems. NSF has invested $10 million in innovative new partnership projects to create service systems that are smart and human-centric. Several of these projects tie into NSF's investments in smart and connected communities, whether through energy, healthcare, environmental or other services. Shown here is a research team lead by Clarkson University engineer Thomas H. Ortmeyer, who is developing advanced resilient microgrid technology to improve disaster response capability.
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As part of its commitment to the National Smart Cities Initiative, NSF will fund nearly $40 million in awards spanning next-generation prototype applications that demonstrate the capabilities of ultra-high-speed and advanced networking infrastructure; research on cyber-physical systems that embed computing, sensing and control into physical devices and critical infrastructure safely and while taking into account social, behavioral, and economic factors; and partnerships between academia and industry to transition promising research into practice.
Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
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NSF committed approximately $12 million for new projects through US Ignite to support research leading to prototype applications that leverage gigabit and advanced networking connectivity and to build "living labs" that provide the support needed to scale up these prototype applications across cities/regions.
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