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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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