NSF S&CC Projects

NSF funds a variety of projects in and related to smart and connected communities.

Primary Award Mechanisms:

Integrative Research Grants: full awards of ~$1M-$2.5M for up to four years to support fundamental integrative research that addresses technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities and pilots solutions together with communities.
Planning Grants: awards of ~$150K for 1 year to facilitate capacity building and prepare project teams to propose future well-developed IRG proposals.

Other Award Mechanisms:

EAGER: awards for exploratory work on early stage or untested research concepts or approaches with potentially transformative outcomes ("high risk, high payoff")
RAPID: awards for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events
Other: awards such as workshops, conferences, etc.

For details about these award types, please refer to the S&CC solicitation.

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Building Smart Community Capacity
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Betsy DiSalvo
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Georgia Tech
CityGuide: Seamless and Inclusive Location-Based Services for Communities
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Vinod Namboodiri
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Lehigh University
Co-designing AI-Driven Fire Preparedness Assessment Tools to Meet Community Needs in the Wildland-Urban Interface
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Brett Dickson
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Conservation Science Partners, Inc.
Community Based Approach to Address Heavy Metal Contamination in Drinking Water using Cloud-Connected Smart Electrochemical Sensors
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Pradeep Kurup
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Community Integration Platform for Health Science Education of Social Emotional Intelligence through Collaborative Mixed Reality
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2021
Lead PI: Marjorie Zielke
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Texas at Dallas
Addressing Unprecedented Community-Centered Transportation Infrastructure Needs and Policies for the Mobility Revolution
08/01/2020 – 07/31/2021
Lead PI: Michael Hyland
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of California-Irvine
Bridging the Digital Gap and Identifying Cross-Cultural Pathways for Adoption of IoT Technologies to Support Super-Aging Societies in the U.S. and Japan
05/15/2020 – 04/30/2022
Lead PI: Anupam Joshi
Award Type: Planning Grant, International
Affiliation: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Building an Integrative Community Platform to Alleviate the Workforce Aging Crisis
05/01/2020 – 04/30/2023
Lead PI: Shangping Ren
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: San Diego State University Foundation
Building Safe and Secure Communities through Real-Time Edge Video Analytics
10/01/2018 – 03/31/2025
Lead PI: Hamed Tabkhi
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Community-Based Automated Information for Urban Flooding
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Mikhail Chester
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Community on Multimodality: Participatory Action, Service, and Support (COMPASS)
09/01/2017 – 08/31/2024
Lead PI: Daphney-Stavroula Zois
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: SUNY at Albany
Development of Resilience Roadmap for Rio Grande Valley
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Ali Nejat
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Texas Tech University
Smart Water Crowdsensing: Examining How Innovative Data Analytics and Citizen Science Can Ensure Safe Drinking Water in Rural Versus Suburban Communities
09/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Dong Wang
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advanced Learning for Energy Risk Tracking (ALERT)
09/01/2022 – 08/31/2026
Lead PI: Mladen Kezunovic
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Active sensing and personalized interventions for pandemic-induced social isolation
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Insup Lee
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Building Resilience during Disasters through Digital Inclusion of Older Adults: A Smart and Connected Community Research Initiative
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: H. Raghav Rao
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Texas at San Antonio
Designing and testing remote services to support formerly homeless persons in permanent housing
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Anand Panangadan
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: California State University-Fullerton Foundation
Digital Twin City for Age-friendly Communities - Crowd-biosensing of Environmental Distress for Older Adults
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Chanam Lee
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Just in Time Intervention for Patients with Chronic Heart Diseases in Arizona tribes
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Fatemeh Afghah
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Clemson University
Leveraging Community Partnerships and Intelligent Technologies to Address Septic System Water Quality Risks in the Flathead Basin
10/01/2021 – 03/31/2024
Lead PI: Sarah J. Halvorson
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana
Serving Households in AReas with food Insecurity with a Network for Good: SHARING
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2025
Lead PI: Julie Ivy
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Smart and Connected Community Food Systems
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Kayla de la Haye
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Using a Network of Campus Testbeds and Community Engagement to Accelerate the Mutual Creation, Adoption, and Transfer of Urban Innovation in Cities
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Jonathan Fink
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Portland State University
Building Smart Communities to Advance Solar Energy in Rural America
09/01/2021 – 08/31/2022
Lead PI: Anil Pahwa
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Kansas State University