Innovation built through partnerships to improve life on the streetscape for all

The mission of the Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3) is to
forge livable, safe, and inclusive communities.

Research Thrusts

Wi-Edge

Current 5G bandwidth, latency, and density capabilities cannot meet situational awareness demands, while protecting privacy and community trust.
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Security, Privacy, and Fairness

Emerging technologies pose new privacy, security, and fairness challenges that may compromise social equity.
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Streetscape Applications

Neither the novel class of applications nor its necessary technological substrate currently exist.
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Situational Awareness

CS3 demands outstrip state-of-the-art, requiring high-accuracy recognition and tracking across non-overlapping fields of view from sensors with heterogenous resolutions in complex, dynamic scenes.
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Human life in Social distance. Aerial top view with blur man with smartphone walking converse of other people at pedestrian crosswalk on grey pavement street road with empty space.

Public Interest Technology

Technology can intentionally or unintentionally produce or reproduce social harms, amplified for data collection in underserved communities.
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Improving Life on The Streetscapes

News

Center for Smart Streetscapes Welcomes HOK to its Industry Advisory Board

March 6, 2024

Image from William Kenworthy’s research project showcasing an envisioned smart streetscape concept. The Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3) seeks to develop technological solutions to address community-driven problems, such as public safety, traffic efficiency and hyper-local environment sensing.Most of the world’s population now lives in cities, which are composed of streetscapes that include neighborhood streets, sidewalks,…

Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Workshops Engage the Harlem Community in Smart Streetscape Solutions

February 29, 2024

The Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3) launched the inaugural Community Partners in Residence (CPR) program in November 2023. This innovative program is developing a new relationship between researchers at Columbia University, Rutgers University, Lehman College, Florida Atlantic University and the University of Central Florida with civic and business leaders in the Harlem community. These CPR…

Research

Wang, Zehao, et al. “Field Trial of Coexistence and Simultaneous Switching of Real-Time Fiber Sensing and Coherent 400 GbE in a Dense Urban Environment.” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 42, no. 4, Feb. 2024, pp. 1304–11, https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2023.3319166.

Zhang, Tianya Terry, and Peter J. Jin. “Segmentation Is Tracking: Spatial-Temporal Map Vehicle Trajectory Reconstruction and Validation.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no. 12, 2023, pp. 13617–26, https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3299504.

Chizhik, Dmitry, et al. Backscatter Measurements and Models for RF Sensing Applications in Cluttered Environments. 2024, https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2401.15206.

Zhang, Tianya Terry, et al. “Deep Spatial‐temporal Embedding for Vehicle Trajectory Validation and Refinement.” Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Jan. 2024, p. mice.13160, https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13160.

Kohli, Manav, et al. Design and Testbed Deployment of Frequency-Domain Equalization Full Duplex Radios. arXiv:2401.17751, arXiv, 31 Jan. 2024, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.17751.

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