(461d) Cyberinfrastructure and the Next Wave of Innovation

We are already experiencing the advent of Smart Industries ? Smart Manufacturing, Smart Energy Grids, Smart Water Resources, Smart Equipment, Smart Buildings and Smart Cities, all an outgrowth of applying data, models, knowledge and critical foundational cyberinfrastructure. Smart industries have begun to embrace various aspects of design, operation, collaboration, knowledge management and support. They are beginning to involve the enterprise-wide application of ?smart? technologies - tools, models and systems coupled with knowledge-enabled personnel, to innovate, plan, design, build, operate, maintain, support, and manage products and facilities. It is clear that Smart technologies together with cyberinfrastructure provide the basis for a sea change toward a fundamentally more predictive mode of decision-making and/or operation with a much swifter and more proactive incident-response capability. The smart industry drives prevention and lowered risk through proactive, predictive optimization and management of the enterprise. It ensures safe and health-conscious operations, with full recognition of people as essential resources for success. The smart industry is committed to knowledge, discovery and innovation and the ability to validate and rapidly deploy new developments. With the recognition that CI is a key shared enabler, achieving the goals of a ?smart? industry dictates excellence in data and information management, knowledge management and communications across an enterprise and the industry.