🔗Team activity between 2018 and 2023

The following text has been written by the ACES team as part of the 2018-2023 periodic HCÉRES evaluation of the LTCI lab and reflects the past activities of the team on the "Autonomous and Energy Aware Systems" topic.

Research in autonomic systems has covered multi-scale, self-adaptive, healing, integrating, and explaining aspects. Our contributions include identifying cross-domain theoretical principles, like multi-scale feedback design patterns ("Exogenous coordination in multi-scale systems: How information flows and timing affect system properties") and self-integration, adaptation rules ("Self-improving system integration: Mastering continuouschange"), and applying them to specific domains, such as self-adaptive vehicular networks ("Fair Self-Adaptive Clustering for Hybrid Cellular-Vehicular Networks") and decentralized self-healing systems ("Self-healing Networks via Self-organising Mobile Agents"). This foundation aids the SmartGarden project in designing an expandable, eco-friendly monitoring system, focusing on energy and water management.

The SmartGarden project, involving LMD/IPP, SAMOVAR, and LTCI's ACES and SSH teams, explores urban vegetation's environmental benefits. Its objectives are demonstrated through installing autonomous sensors in Télécom Paris gardens, supported by the E4C interdisciplinary center¹. This initiative aims for cost-effective, solar-powered measuring stations to generate and archive environmental data, optimize irrigation, and engage the community in maintenance, leveraging ACES's expertise in autonomous and energy-efficient systems. Those unexpensive stations will be benchmarked against the ones certified by Météo France. Environmental data will be archived in the E4C DataHub, and will be used for efficient irrigation and vegetation monitoring while involving employees in garden maintenance, adding a social science aspect to enhance equipment acceptance in urban settings.