Discover how our fundamental research is unlocking the potential of IoT and its real-world applications.
Research areas
Our portfolio spans the IoT system stack, from underpinning hardware to sophisticated data management and analysis techniques. We categorise our research in these thematic areas:
Sensor technologies: Research into new and novel sensor devices to enable new innovative applications
Data management: Analysis and Interfacing: Accessing and making sense of the wealth of data obtained from the IoT
Powering the IoT: Increasing the sustainability or autonomy of IoT devices through improved management and efficiency and/or self-powered approaches
Security, safety and privacy: Enabling a secure and trusted IoT, from hardware through to software
Communications and networking: 5G communication and efficient networking to support future systems
Information processing and machine intelligence: Decision making and autonomy
Nanotechnology and system-on-chip: Enabling faster, cheaper and/or lower-power computation
Application domains
We apply our IoT research to the following application domains:
Health and well-being: Improving quality of life through effective technologies for health care and well-being
Environmental monitoring: Improving our understanding of the environment around us through remote monitoring
Smarter homes, cities and infrastructure: Increasing connectivity and intelligence in homes, buildings, cities and infrastructure to improve services, sustainability, and quality of life
Industry 4.0: Improving industrial processes through improved awareness, intelligence and connectivity, from machine condition monitoring to smart farming
