CenSCIR (Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research)
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CenSCIR technologies will make inspections more thorough and accurate.
The Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR) will perform enabling research aimed
at delivering cost-effective, sensor-based monitoring systems for a broad range of critical
infrastructure applications. These monitoring systems could be used for decaying bridges, oil
and gas pipelines, unstable electric power grids, leaking water distribution systems, and
ensuring the security of a university campus.
To avoid costly failures and provide a 21st century infrastructure, the United States and
other governments must build their critical infrastructures with a "nervous system" that
collects and feeds data to places in the system that interpret it and allow better decision
making, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers.
The Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR) will bring together a
multidisciplinary team of experts committed to creating new fast, reliable monitoring systems
to collect and process data about a myriad of complex network systems critical to both the nation's
security and daily commerce.
For more information visit the CenSCIR website, www.ices.cmu.edu/censcir, or contact professors
Jim Garrett, garrett@andrew.cmu.edu, or José M. F. Moura, moura@ece.cmu.edu.