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A testbed is a controlled place to try something before it meets the world: a laboratory rig, a pilot plant, a field trial plot, a living lab in a neighbourhood, a regulatory sandbox. Testbeds carry risks of their own, to staff, participants, sites and neighbours, and their evidence is only as useful as the match between test and conditions of use. This page sets out how testbeds are designed, permitted, made safe and read, and who decides when a result may move on.

01画布

工作如何开展。

系统 · 围绕本主题示意

Testbed operations

Field and lab testbeds · Field lab coast · Campaign 5

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Sensor deployment

示意海岸线

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Sensors

S-01 tide940.2Nominal
S-04 salinity910.4Recalibrate
S-07 wave910.2Nominal

Sensor vs reference

Testbed operations: the screen’s structure, terms and states for Field and lab testbeds.示例名称和示意数值;是设计方案,并非记录或实时系统。

图Testbed operations: example names and illustrative values, not a record or a live system.

02问题

Field and lab testbeds: how the risk develops.

Test environments, safety and site permissions. The dossier below sets out how the risk develops, what is measured, where the data come from, how it is modelled and who decides.

机制

The test is not the world

Laboratory conditions remove the variability of real sites, users and maintenance. A technology that performs on a rig may fail in heat, dust, intermittent power or untrained hands. The gap between test and operating environment is what readiness levels try to name.

机制

Hazards travel with the experiment

Pressurised 系统, biological agents, chemicals, batteries, drones and autonomous machines can harm people outside the lab once trials move to the field. 风险评估 has to follow the experiment to each new site and each new configuration.

机制

Permission is layered

Field work can need landowner consent, environmental and planning permits, aviation or radio authorisations, biosafety approval and community agreement. A missing permission can halt a trial midway or make its data unusable.

机制

Living labs involve people

When a trial runs in homes, streets, wards or workplaces, residents become participants. Consent, data protection, benefit sharing and exit arrangements decide whether the evidence is ethical and whether the community will host another trial.

03方法与证据

How field and lab testbeds is modelled, measured and tested.

模型、其假设、数据和不确定性,以科学家或工程师会核查的形式呈现。结构遵循已发表的方法。所取数值仅为示意,不是研究发现。

模型、方程与假设

The model structure used for field and lab testbeds, the assumptions it makes and how each is tested.

要素 i 的风险Ri = f(Hi, Ei, Vi, Ci)危害、风险暴露、脆弱性和应对能力
预期年度损失EAL = ∑k pk · Lk对年概率为 pk
耦合系统xt+1 = A xt + B ut + εtA carries the couplings, u the shock, ε the error
假设为何制作如何检验
在一次事件中,危害与暴露相互独立使损失积分保持可计算与基于联合记录拟合的 copula 进行比较
耦合在工作点附近是线性的让冲击通过 A 传播在线性范围之外施加扰动并比较
脆弱性曲线可以在不同地点之间迁移使用很少有本地曲线可用在有观测损失的地方据此进行验证
输入
带溯源信息的版本化数据集
成果
分布,绝不是单一数字
代码
连同模型卡和测试一起发布
复现
相同的数据、代码、环境和随机种子
标准的风险与状态空间表述;所列假设是该方法的典型假设,供审查之用,并非结果。
FAIR 指导原则 · GO FAIR 和 FORCE11W3C PROV · 万维网联盟关于一致处理不确定性的指南 · IPCCCEOS 分析就绪数据 · 地球观测卫星委员会
04In the five domains

Testbeds test technology in each domain’s real conditions.

05指标

衡量什么,以及衡量得如何。

每个指标都注明其单位、频率、背后的来源类型以及数值将附带的证据标签。此处不显示数值:数值由计划依据其自身权限提供。

指标单位节奏来源类型标签
Technology readiness level at entry and exitlevel on a named TRL scaleper trialAssessment against NASA, EU or ISO 16290 definitions已声明
Independent readiness reviewpercent of readiness claims reviewed outside the team年度Programme review records观测
Operating-environment fidelityordinal scale from laboratory to operationalper trialTest plan against the stated use environment估算
Permits in force before startpercent of required permitsper trialPermit register已发布统计
Safety incidents and near missescount per thousand test hours每月Incident reporting system已报告
Participant consent coveragepercent of participants with recorded consentper trialConsent records观测
Site restoration completedpercent of field sites restored to the agreed conditionper trialSite closure reports已报告
06来源

证据来自何处。

具名公共数据集与机构记录,各自注明许可类别。依协议获得的来源仅按其条款使用,绝不再次发布。

来源它提供什么许可类别
ESFRI roadmap and landscape analysisEuropean research infrastructures, their scope and access conditionsFree access, attribution
MERIL portal (European Science Foundation)Inventory of European research infrastructures open to external usersFree access, terms of use
European Network of Living 实验室 member directoryLiving labs, their domains and contact pointsFree access, terms of use
Testing and Experimentation Facilities (European Commission, Digital Europe Programme)Sector testbeds for artificial intelligence in manufacturing, health, agri-food and citiesPublic programme records
CORDIS(欧盟委员会)Funded projects, pilot sites, deliverables and reported readinessFree and open, CC BY
Global BioLabs (King’s College London and George Mason University)Mapped high-containment laboratories and their biosafety governanceFree access, attribution
National permit and incident registersField-trial permits, release authorisations and reportable incidentsBy agreement with each authority
07决定

由谁决定,以及证据服务于什么。

实验室 prepares evidence. The decisions below are taken by the authorities named, under their own rules, and never by the platform.

谁来决定问题本页面服务的证据
Institutional biosafety and safety committeesWhether an experiment may run at a given containment level or field siteHazard assessment, containment design, training and incident records
Environmental, aviation and spectrum regulatorsWhether a field release, flight or transmission may be authorisedTest plan, site description, mitigation and monitoring arrangements
Programme managers at funding agenciesWhether a technology has earned the next readiness gate and its fundingReadiness evidence per level, independent review, fidelity statement
Host communities and landownersWhether to host a trial, on what terms, and how it endsPlain-language trial description, data use, benefits and restoration plan

该主题产生的产出

  • Test plans stating the operating environment, the hazards and the exit criteria for each readiness level
  • Permit and safety registers kept with the trial record
  • Readiness assessments with evidence attached to each level claimed
  • Site agreements and closure records for field and living-lab trials
08核心问题

What experts ask before a test begins.

  • How close are the testbed’s conditions to the real setting where the result will be used?
  • What can be controlled, what can only be observed, and what is unknown?
  • What could go wrong for people, equipment or the environment, and how is it contained?
  • Who owns the site and the data, and who has granted permission to use them?
  • How will the testbed be returned to its original state when the work ends?
09机制与驱动因素

Why the gap between test and reality matters.

The value of a testbed lies in control: it removes or fixes some sources of variation so that the effect of interest can be seen. The cost of control is realism. A water treatment process that works in a laboratory may fail with real source water that varies by season; a forecasting tool that performs well on historical data may degrade when the system changes. Engineers call this the validity trade-off, and it is never eliminated, only managed.

Field testbeds narrow the gap but bring new risks. They involve communities, landowners, operators and regulators, each with legitimate interests. They can disrupt services, collect personal data or affect ecosystems. Safety cases, consent and permissions are therefore part of the science, not administration around it.

系统 engineering offers a staged path: component tests, integrated tests in simulation, limited field trials and wider pilots, with criteria for moving between stages.

10方法与数据

How testbeds are characterised.

  1. 01

    Testbed description

    A record of the environment, instruments, calibration, boundary conditions and known deviations from the target setting.

  2. 02

    Hazard and safety analysis

    Structured identification of failure modes and controls, drawing on 系统工程 practice. It reduces but does not remove residual risk.

  3. 03

    Simulation and digital models

    Virtual testbeds that allow many runs at low cost. Their results are only as good as the model’s validation.

  4. 04

    Readiness staging

    Explicit criteria for moving from bench to simulation to field. Staging helps decisions but readiness levels are coarse and can hide important differences.

A testbed result shows performance under the tested conditions. Generalising beyond them requires further evidence and is reported as a separate claim.

11方法

如何研究,以及方法无法说明的内容。

  1. 系统工程从需求到验证的可追溯性 · 阶段关口就绪审查在此应用
  2. 不确定性量化与模型验证测量不确定性预算 · 模拟模型的敏感性分析在此应用
  3. 概率与统计样本量与检验效能规划 · 含偏倚评估的荟萃分析在此应用
  4. 因果推断与影响评估随机试点与阶梯式推广 · 准实验计划评估在此应用
12Where this page’s references

Where this page’s references lead.

阅读本页时所对照的机构和文件。状态和版本会变化;每个链接都指向发布机构。

13问题

问题与解答。

What does a technology readiness level measure?
How far a technology has been demonstrated, from basic principles observed to a system demonstrated in its operating environment. It says nothing about market readiness, cost or social acceptance, which need their own evidence.
What is a living lab?
A real-world setting, such as a neighbourhood, hospital ward or farm, where users and researchers co-design and test innovations over time. Its strength is realism; its obligations are those of research with people.
Who is responsible for safety in a field trial?
The organisation running the trial, under its safety management system and the permits it holds. Committees and regulators review and authorise; they do not take over the operator’s duty of care.
Is a regulatory sandbox an exemption from the law?
No. A sandbox is a supervised arrangement under which a regulator allows limited testing with conditions and monitoring. The regulator sets the terms and can withdraw them.
Does Labs own testbed sites?
No site is listed as a Labs testbed until a record shows who owns it, who granted permission and on what terms.
Can a company test a product in a Labs testbed?
Testbed use is designed for research under a published protocol. GCRI does not certify products, so a test result is never a product approval.
Are simulation testbeds treated differently?
They follow the same protocol rules. Their validation against observations is reported so readers can judge how far results transfer.
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