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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Prisons Evolving as Connected Communities
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023
Lead PI: Eden Badertscher
Award Type:
Affiliation: Education Development Center
Edge Computing for Bringing Smart Services to Under-served Urban Communities
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Umakishore Ramachandran
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation:
Preparing the Next-Generation Rural Workforce Through Inclusive and Place-Based Smart and Connected STEM Educational Delivery Models
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023
Lead PI: Eliot Winer
Award Type:
Affiliation: Iowa State University
Overcoming Social and Technical Barriers for the Broad Adoption of Smart Stormwater Systems
09/01/2017 – 08/31/2022
Lead PI: Branko Kerkez
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Utilizing Sharing Economy to Foster Social Capital and Economic Growth in Baton Rouge
07/01/2020 – 06/30/2022
Lead PI: Anas Mahmoud
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Louisiana State University
A Novel Architecture for Secure, Energy-Efficient Community-Edge-Clouds with Application in Harlem (SEEC HARLEM) this proposal
09/15/2017 – 08/31/2022
Lead PI: Daniel Kilper
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Towards Quality Aware Crowdsourced Road Sensing for Smart Cities
09/01/2017 – 08/31/2022
Lead PI: Chunming Qiao
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: SUNY at Buffalo
Toward a statewide public Internet of Things (IoT) network
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: K. Max Zhang
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Cornell University
Toward Disease-Resistant School Communities by Reinventing the Interfaces among Built Environments, Occupants, and Microbiomes
10/01/2020 – 04/30/2022
Lead PI: Shuai Li
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Tennessee Knoxville
Towards cybernetic buildings: integrated intelligent sensing to create responsive environments
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Junsong Yuan
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: SUNY at Buffalo
Transportation Gaps and Disability-Related Unemployment: Smarter Cities and Wearables combating Commuting Challenges for the Visually Impaired
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: John Ross Rizzo
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: NYU Langone
Understanding the Impact of Social and Physical Environment Factors on Crime Using Urban Sensing and Machine-Learning
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Marc Berman
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Understanding the most effective ways to engage community members in using technology and data as tools for influencing change in Wisconsin
10/01/2020 – 12/31/2021
Lead PI: Joshua Garoon
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Toward Smart Resilience: Smart Systems for Situational Awareness of Flood Impacts and Transportation Access (SSSAFT) in Communities
07/01/2020 – 06/30/2022
Lead PI: Jamie Padgett
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: William Marsh Rice University
Understanding Heat Resiliency via Physiological, Mental, and Behavioral Health Factors for Indoor and Outdoor Urban Environments
06/01/2020 – 05/31/2022
Lead PI: Suren Jayasuriya
Award Type: Planning Grant, International
Affiliation: Arizona State University
UNITE: Smart, Connected, and Coordinated Maternal Care for Underserved Communities
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Nikil Dutt
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of California Irvine
Smart Integrated Farm Network for Rural Agricultural Communities (SIRAC)
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Asheesh Singh
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Iowa State University
Smart Septic Strategies: Data Integration to Manage Hidden Infrastructure Threats to Our Homes and Communities
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Brian Bledsoe
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
Smart Technologies and Community Engagement to Address Data Gaps in Birth Outcomes Reporting
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Alexandrina Agloro
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Arizona State University
SUNRISE: Using Mobile Games in Rural Tribal Communities to Promote Social and Emotional Resilience in Youth
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Morgan Vigil-Hayes
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Northern Arizona University
StreetBit: A Bluetooth beacon based System for Alerting Distracted Pedestrians in Urban Environments
08/01/2020 – 07/31/2022
Lead PI: Ragib Hasan
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Smart and Connected Churches for Promoting Health in Disadvantaged Populations
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Timothy Bickmore
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Northeastern University
Smart Water Crowdsensing: Examining How Innovative Data Analytics and Citizen Science Can Ensure Safe Drinking Water in Rural Versus Suburban Communities
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2021
Lead PI: Dong Wang
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities
01/01/2018 – 02/29/2024
Lead PI: Panagiota Karava
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Purdue University