in conjunction with MobiSys 2024
Despite shifts towards lower population growth and ostensible increases in efficiency across many systems, demand for resources continues to grow globally. Concurrently, the global climate crisis will create major challenges to meet these needs. For instance, sustainably meeting the food and nutrition demands of the world population of over 10 billion by 2050 is a grand challenge facing humanity. Our ability to better conserve and distribute resources, like food, fresh water, air, and energy, and reliably meet demands for them, are also likely going to be impacted by climate change and other global disruptions. With chaos from climate change causing anticipated wide-scale migration and conflict, we face an imminent need for mitigation and adaptation. Given the global nature of these problems, technology will play an important role. For researchers, this starts with identifying the challenges, both local and global; followed by understanding the impacts and communicating them and finally ends in developing equitable solutions. In this workshop we specifically focus on innovations around sensing, communication, and AI to assist in creating this sustainable and resilient future.
Sensing: Sensing systems provide the eyes and ears to detect challenges around the world. The current sensing focus falls anywhere from developing novel means of sensing (including novel materials) to enabling sensing applications with low-power, large-scale or remote sensing efforts.
Communication: Communication of data from sensing systems, local, global and general last-mile connectivity are persistent challenges in challenging environments. Communication plays an essential role in identifying and understanding challenges.
Intelligence: Powerful tools of AI and LLMs for applications are likely to play key roles in sustainable technology. Responsible AI is currently helping to break down the human-technology barriers. Understanding its strengths and weaknesses is vital to responsibly utilize this technology for global benefit