Jun Adachi, Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Social CPS: Its Concept and Practical Experience Acquired in the Demonstrative Experiments
Cyber Physical System (CPS) is an IT-based system which grasps the physical world by sensing, then analyzes the acquired data in order to give feedback to the real world. This general scheme of CPS is expected to have diversified potential possibility to enhance the current systems, in particular, complex and huge social systems which include interaction with humans. We call this “social CPS”.
We have been conducting a research project titled “CPS-IIP: Integrated IT Platforms for Cyber-Physical Systems to Accelerate Implementation of Efficient Social Systems” since 2012, funded by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology.
In this talk, I will explain the concepts and the goals of the project which includes implementation of two demonstrative systems as practical application of CPS to social systems: “Smart Snow Plowing” and “Human-centric Energy Management”. Our development of various basic technologies for CPS, such as data store and high-throughput processing systems, smart federated analytics with machine learning techniques, and various sensing technologies for real-world data processing, will also be introduced.