EAGER: Towards Sustainable Industry Expansion via Computing Revitalization

NSF Award Search · 01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT · $299,994 · view on nsf.gov ↗

Abstract

The manufacturing industry has recently transformed into an intelligent and interconnected ecosystem, fueling many emerging services - such as connected healthcare, smart transportation, and modern manufacturing - to benefit people's daily life. As a key enabler to this new paradigm, smart computing devices (e.g., Industrial Internet of Things) leverage their computing capability and wireless connectivity to form a hierarchical service functionality, providing the ability to perform real-time data analytics, to detect anomalies, and to make predictions to improve the efficiency and quality of manufacturing. Although this paradigm is promising, environmental sustainability issues are becoming increasingly urgent, especially during industry expansion. The substantial increase of new device production and adoption inevitably leads to higher greenhouse-gas emissions, contributing to global warming, which in turn results in economic losses for industries. This project develops a framework, termed sustainable revitalization, to reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions by migrating current devices to their most suitable locations in the service hierarchy for continuing service. As such, computing devices maximize their lifespan by moving around inside a system at each device-updating stage while minimizing their environmental impact through greenhouse-gas emissions by avoiding frequent production and disposal processes during industry expansion. This project also seeks to improve the sc

Key facts

NSF award ID
2553684
Awardee
University of Arizona (AZ)
SAM.gov UEI
ED44Y3W6P7B9
PI
Xiaolong Ma
Primary program
01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
EAGER, EXP PROG TO STIM COMP RES
Estimated total
$299,994
Funds obligated
$243,614
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
09/01/2025 → 09/30/2027