中央研究院 資訊科學研究所

The rapid pace of urbanization and growing population is putting more pressure on cities from the environmental, economic, infrastructure and social perspective. There is a critical need for innovative and holistic societal-scale solutions to mitigate these pressures. In this talk, we will discuss the major research and technical challenges to realize the potential of smart, sustainable and safe cities. We present a holistic R&D framework to support the development of technologies and applications for smart, sustainable and safe cities. We highlight our recent efforts in the development and deployment of city-scale systems for the application domains of weather and environmental monitoring, water distribution network monitoring, transportation activity survey, smart and energy efficient buildings, etc in Singapore.

Hock Beng Lim is the Director of Research and Development of the Intelligent Systems Center at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his BS in Computer Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include sensor networks and sensor grids, cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, parallel and distributed computing, wireless and mobile networks, computer architecture, embedded systems, performance evaluation, e-Science and high-performance computing.