Internet of Things Lab
Internet of Things Lab
swinburne.edu.au/dricp/iot-lab
Internet of Things Lab
Our IoT solutions have driven significant impact in
the manufacturing, agriculture, retail, health and
defence sectors in Australia and overseas.
The Internet of Things (IoT) Lab addresses important FACILITIES
challenges in our industries, cities, farms, hospitals, homes, The IoT Lab experiments with several hundred commercial
retail chains, personal lives and our society. Securely, and IoT sensors, sensor nodes, and other IoT devices. This also
in real time, we collect, integrate and analyse data from includes water-proof networking equipment, servers, and
millions of internet-connected devices that range from cloud and edge computing resources.
sensors, cameras, smart phones and wearables, to smart KEY CONTACTS
meters, vehicles, medication pills, and industrial machines. Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Director of the
We develop innovative IoT-based solutions for industries Internet of Things Lab, comes to the Lab from his roles as
and governments. Research Director at CSIRO’s ICT Centre and Professor at
The IoT Lab’s research focus includes: RMIT. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Australian
National University and a CSIRO Adjunct Fellow. Professor
• Development of advanced IoT devices and robots
Georgakopoulos has also held research and management
that provide information from and perform actions
positions in several industrial labs in the USA, including
in the IoT cyber-physical ecosystem
Telcordia Technologies (where he help found Telcordia’s
• Discovery and integration of IoT devices and their
research labs in Austin, Texas and Poznan, Poland),
data permitting the use of billions of IoT devices
Microelectronics and Computer Corporation, GTE (now
that have been deployed, owned, and controlled by
Verizon) Laboratories, and Bell Communications Research.
others
He has won numerous research awards, produced two
• Real-time IoT data analysis on the cloud, at the
hundred publications, and attracted significant external
edge, and on the move, including localisation,
research funding ($35M+) from industry and government
personalisation, and contextualisation of IoT data
organisations in the USA, EU and Australia.
• IoT security and privacy for IoT devices with limited
computing resource and connectivity
• IoT actuation via IoT devices, robots and process-
based automation
• Lower-power and longer-range IoT networking for
IoT devices
• Wearable IoT devices and systems
• Human performance, human/IoT integration, and
IoT information visualisation
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