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Communications Technology Laboratory

# Smart Connected Systems Division

The Smart Connected Systems Division advances measurement science, standards, and test methods to support communications networks, trustworthy Internet of Things (IoT) systems, and critical applications including smart manufacturing, industrial control systems, automated vehicles, energy systems, and smart cities and communities.

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## Groups

                        - IoT Devices and Infrastructures Group
                        - Networked Control Systems Group
                        - Smart Connected Manufacturing Systems Group
                        - Smart Grid Group
                        - Transformational Networks and Services Group

#### WHO WE ARE: 

NIST CTL’s Smart Connected Systems Division researches, develops, and deploys advances in measurement science, standards, and test methods for core communications networks, trustworthy IoT systems, and critical applications including smart manufacturing, industrial control systems, automated vehicles, energy systems, and smart infrastructures including smart cities and communities. The Division applies knowledge about communications, networks, controls, automation, data science, and applications to understand complexity and inform design and optimization of trustworthy systems; and enables innovation and engineering to enhance IoT systems operations, agility, resilience, reliability, safety, security, and privacy. The Smart Connected Systems Division contributes to three of CTL’s major programs: Smart Infrastructure and Manufacturing, Core Networks, and Next Generation Wireless Systems.

## News and Updates

### NIST is Requesting Public Input on Published Strategic Plan for Smart Cities Program

January 25, 2024

### NIST Hosts Colloquium Speaker on Autonomous Vehicles

January 1, 2024

### NIST Launches Exploratory Digital Twins Study

January 1, 2024

### University, NIST Researchers Create Residential Building Models to Evaluate Fairness of Electricity Tariffs

January 1, 2024

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## Awards

### 2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Avi Gopstein, Cuong Nguyen, Nelson Hastings, David Wollman

### NIST Researcher Robert Lipman Receives Prestigious Technical Excellence Award – Again

### 2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Barry Schneider, Robert Hanisch, Carl Spangler, Walid Keyrouz, Andrew Reid, Timothy Blattner, Derek Juba, Robert Densock, Abdella Battou, Thomas Allison

### 2020 - Gold Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Victoria Pillitteri, Suzanne Lightman

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## Software

### STEP File Analyzer and Viewer

February 21, 2024

### SimPROCESD

October 1, 2022

### QIF PMI Report Software

December 16, 2021

### Simantha - Simulation for Manufacturing

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## Contacts

### Smart Connected Systems Division

### Networked Control Systems Group

### Smart Connected Manufacturing Systems Group

### IoT Devices and Infrastructure Group

### Smart Grid Group

### Transformational Networks and Services 

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