Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects embedded devices, sensors and actuators to the Internet. Estimations show that around 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet in 2020. Most of these devices will be connected to aggregation nodes via wireless links.

Novel  applications ranging  from autonomous driving, over smart cities, to health care, that improve the quality of human life will be enabled by IoT. Common to these IoT applications is the collection of sensor information, the control of actuators as well as time-critical communication and control tasks. The gathering and processing of all the data acquired by those devices will result in an increase of data aggregation devices, which need to adapt to their environment. Hence, the architecture for such systems must be designed in an organized, scalable, and efficient way that ultimately leads to a seamless deployment of IoT applications on a generic platform.

 The lab undertakes research in the IoT domain, in the following specific areas:

1) IoT applications, design and development

2) network virtualization

3) IoT service orchestration

4) IoT management infrastructures and functionalities