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Sensors and Emergency Management
Mani Chandy
Simon Ramo Professor
California Institute of Technology
Overview
Potential What is being achieved Challenges
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Potential Producer Push
Price
Pervasiveness
Power
Compareprice of bridge: price of an addition in 1969 and 2009C
Compareprice of bridge: price of an addition in 1969 and 2009C
form factorbattery requirementsform factorbattery requirements
Event processing can exploit,distributed, multi-core cloud computingEvent processing can exploit,distributed, multi-core cloud computing
Potential: Consumer Pull
Celerity: swiftness of action
Connectedness
Complexity
How have your expectations of responsiveness changed in the last decade?What about kids?
How have your expectations of responsiveness changed in the last decade?What about kids?
Regulations across states; fraud; arbitrage opportunitiesRegulations across states; fraud; arbitrage opportunities
Potential
Water Food: Farm to fork Healthcare Energy Security
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Overview
Potential What is being achieved Challenges
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What is being achieved: better response
San AndreasSan Andreas
Research: System Design
$50,000 $80 $0 $0
40 stations 1000 stations 40 stations 1000 stations
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Research: Earthquake response
Slow trains
Open fire engine doors
Stop elevators
System Design
Design that considers Society Responders Physical system Information technology
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Research: System Design
Caltech
Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Smiths Detection Corp
Interdicting sources of radiation
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Research: Radiation detection
Handheld sensors developed at Caltech by Ryan McLean’s group in Physics
Probability map of location of radiation source
Cesium spectrum
Multiplayer game
System Design
Design that considers Society Responders Physical system Information technology
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Research: System Design
Situation awareness of the power grid.
Generation
Transmission & Sub-transmission
Distribution
Customer
Southern California Edison
Overview
Potential What is being achieved Challenges
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Challenges
A discipline of cyber-physical systems that integrates People Responders Physical system Information technology
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Challenges
Systematic analysis of tradeoffs e.g., frequency of false positives versus time to detect
radiation
Predictive models; understanding weaknesses Systematic cost/benefit analysis Sociology
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Overview
Potential What is being achieved Challenges
THANKS!
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