Key research challenges (partial)
Connectivity Security
Big Data Hardware
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Daniele Miorandi, Sabrina Sicari, Francesco De Pellegrini, Imrich Chlamtac, Internet of things: Vision, applications and research challenges, Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 10, Issue 7, September 2012
Deployments, Deployments, Deployments
4 homes, 4
weeks
14 homes, 5 weeks5 homes, 8 weeks+
6 homes, 2 weeksLINC
SPARCS
Speech@Home
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Deployments, Deployments, Deployments
4 homes, 4
weeks
14 homes, 5 weeks5 homes, 8 weeks+
6 homes, 2 weeksLINC
SPARCS
Speech@Home
PreHeat
pain painpain
INSTALLATION
REMOTE SETUP
LOST DATA
ROBUSTNESS
Other people feel deployment pain too
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Limited access
Environmental Hazards
Scarce Resources
It’s hard to deploy technology for validation
Limited number of locations often without geographic diversity
Large engineering effort
that is not easily re-used
Lab of Things enables• Interconnecting off-the- shelf
and custom devices
• Scaling field studies through automated monitoring, updates, and data collection
• Sharing data, code, and participants with fellow researchers
Lowering the barrier for conducting field studies
that use connected devices in homes, and
beyond
Lab-of-things.com
A research platform for Internet of Things research
More than 8,000 code downloads
350 Organizations and individuals registered – each org
can have multiple deployments
Research Domains
• Healthcare (In-place Aging)
• Smart Home Design and Energy Management
• Wearable Computing
Teaching:
Used by 80+ student developers
Several classes taught
Lab of Things Usage
www.lab-of-things.com/community.html
Lab of Things Community Contributions
Microsoft Research Community Contribution
• Core HomeOS Platform
• Cloud services – relay, storage, monitoring, update,
alerts
• ZWave driver and sample apps – works for multiple
devices
• Kinect driver
• Camera (WIFI, USB, built-in) driver and sample app
• Arduino over USB and Bluetooth
• Gadgeteer over WIFI
• Philips Hue
Mindwave Mobile –
University of MarylandZigBee – Harbin
Institute of Technology,
China
Bluetooth – University
College London Custom prototyping devices
(LPC1768 ARM
Microcontroller)
U. Of Virginia and FAST,
Pakistan
Fitbit – University of
Michigan
University of Maryland:
Wearable Multi-Sensor Gesture Recognition in Assistive Devices for
Paralysis Patients
Motivation
Reduce the dependence on assistive care facilities through the
uses of wearable technology
Research
Developing gesture-based sensors to enable home
automation for paralysis patients
Wheelchair pads Pillow covers Clothing
Lab of Things use in teaching
• Device prototyping• Students develop innovative sensors and devices
• LoT provides connectivity and application execution environment relieving them to concentrate on design of sensor or device, and validating its design
• Multiple devices and protocols• Interconnecting devices working on multiple protocols
• Typically involve capturing events from one type of device (ZWave based door window sensor), to trigger another device (capture an image from a WIFI camera)
• Data collection and visualization• Collection of data from various devices (Multiple Protocols scenario), storing the data in
the cloud and visualizing or analyzing this data using variety of tools
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