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Cyberphysical systems

News and Updates

2025 MBE & QIF Summit

MBE & QIF Summit 2025

The 2025 MBE Summit was hosted at MxD headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 18. NIST's Rosemary Astheimer organized technical content in conjunction with the...

Blog Posts

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7 Tips to Keep Your Smart Home Safer and More Private, From a NIST Cybersecurity Researcher

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Improving the Quality of Life through Smart Cities and Internet of Things Innovation

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Rethinking Cybersecurity from the Inside Out

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Projects and Programs

AI for Building Systems Innovation (AIBSI) Program

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy advances in measurement science that will improve building operations to ensure cyber-secure facilities, system reliability, occupant comfort/safety and lower operating costs through AI-enabled building systems. What is the problem? Buildings are complex systems of...

AI-Optimized Building Controls

Ongoing
Objective Demonstrate the feasibility of practical AI control techniques for reducing the energy costs of operating HVAC systems in commercial buildings and create a research infrastructure, the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) and Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT), suitable...
Operating Envelope Specification supports automated driving safety measurement, key to testing and public acceptance of automated vehicles

Automated Vehicles and AV Communications

Ongoing
Automated vehicles (AVs), or Automated Driving Systems-equipped (ADS-equipped) vehicles, have great potential to improve our lives by freeing us from the stress of driving and reducing accidents caused by distractions or poor judgement. Connected, reliable, and safe AVs will spark significant...
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Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things Program

Ongoing
Objective - Enable scalable, dependable design methods and reproducible performance measurement for effective and trustworthy (reliable, safe, secure, resilient and privacy-enhancing) cyber-physical systems and IoT, by means of new measurement science, advanced testing and assurance capabilities and...

Publications

Software

Diagram that shows how the gateway sits between ns-3 and other simulators such as CARLA to facilitate time synchronization and data exchange between them.

Gateway for Co-Simulation using ns-3

This software enables the integration of network models developed using the ns-3 network simulator with external software and hardware. Data from an ns-3
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SimPROCESD

SimPROCESD (or Simulated-Production Resource for Operations & Conditions Evaluations to Support Decision-making) is a discrete-event simulation package written

Awards

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