Cyber Security of the Internet of Things
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Science, Tech, Eng and Public Policy
Abstract
Today we use many objects not normally associated with computers or the internet. These include gas meters and lights in our homes, healthcare devices, water distribution systems and cars. Increasingly, such objects are digitally connected and some are transitioning from cellular network connections (M2M) to using the internet: e.g. smart meters and cars - ultimately self-driving cars may revolutionise transport. This trend is driven by numerous forces. The connection of objects and use of their data can cut costs (e.g. allowing remote control of processes) creates new business opportunities (e.g. tailored consumer offerings), and can lead to new services (e.g. keeping older people safe in their homes).
This vision of interconnected physical objects is commonly referred to as the Internet of Things. The examples above not only illustrate the vast potential of such technology for economic and societal benefit, they also hint that such a vision comes with serious challenges and threats. For example, information from a smart meter can be used to infer when people are at home, and an autonomous car must make quick decisions of moral dimensions when faced with a child running across on a busy road. This means the Internet of Things needs to evolve in a trustworthy manner that individuals can understand and be comfortable with. It also suggests that the Internet of Things needs to be resilient against active attacks from organised crime, terror organisations or state-sponsored aggressors.
Therefore, this project creates a Hub for research, development, and translation for the Internet of Things, focussing on privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security/safety: PETRAS, (also suggesting rock-solid foundations) for the Internet of Things. The Hub will be designed and run as a 'social and technological platform'. It will bring together UK academic institutions that are recognised international research leaders in this area, with users and partners from various industrial sectors, government agencies, and NGOs such as charities, to get a thorough understanding of these issues in terms of the potentially conflicting interests of private individuals, companies, and political institutions; and to become a world-leading centre for research, development, and innovation in this problem space.
Central to the Hub approach is the flexibility during the research programme to create projects that explore issues through impactful co-design with technical and social science experts and stakeholders, and to engage more widely with centres of excellence in the UK and overseas. Research themes will cut across all projects: Privacy and Trust; Safety and Security; Adoption and Acceptability; Standards, Governance, and Policy; and Harnessing Economic Value. Properly understanding the interaction of these themes is vital, and a great social, moral, and economic responsibility of the Hub in influencing tomorrow's Internet of Things. For example, a secure system that does not adequately respect privacy, or where there is the mere hint of such inadequacy, is unlikely to prove acceptable. Demonstrators, like wearable sensors in health care, will be used to explore and evaluate these research themes and their tension. New solutions are expected to come out of the majority of projects and demonstrators, many solutions will be generalisable to problems in other sectors, and all projects will produce valuable insights. A robust governance and management structure will ensure good management of the research portfolio, excellent user engagement and focussed coordination of impact from deliverables.
The Hub will further draw on the expertise, networks, and on-going projects of its members to create a cross-disciplinary language for sharing problems and solutions across research domains, industrial sectors, and government departments. This common language will enhance the outreach, development, and training activities of the Hub.
This vision of interconnected physical objects is commonly referred to as the Internet of Things. The examples above not only illustrate the vast potential of such technology for economic and societal benefit, they also hint that such a vision comes with serious challenges and threats. For example, information from a smart meter can be used to infer when people are at home, and an autonomous car must make quick decisions of moral dimensions when faced with a child running across on a busy road. This means the Internet of Things needs to evolve in a trustworthy manner that individuals can understand and be comfortable with. It also suggests that the Internet of Things needs to be resilient against active attacks from organised crime, terror organisations or state-sponsored aggressors.
Therefore, this project creates a Hub for research, development, and translation for the Internet of Things, focussing on privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security/safety: PETRAS, (also suggesting rock-solid foundations) for the Internet of Things. The Hub will be designed and run as a 'social and technological platform'. It will bring together UK academic institutions that are recognised international research leaders in this area, with users and partners from various industrial sectors, government agencies, and NGOs such as charities, to get a thorough understanding of these issues in terms of the potentially conflicting interests of private individuals, companies, and political institutions; and to become a world-leading centre for research, development, and innovation in this problem space.
Central to the Hub approach is the flexibility during the research programme to create projects that explore issues through impactful co-design with technical and social science experts and stakeholders, and to engage more widely with centres of excellence in the UK and overseas. Research themes will cut across all projects: Privacy and Trust; Safety and Security; Adoption and Acceptability; Standards, Governance, and Policy; and Harnessing Economic Value. Properly understanding the interaction of these themes is vital, and a great social, moral, and economic responsibility of the Hub in influencing tomorrow's Internet of Things. For example, a secure system that does not adequately respect privacy, or where there is the mere hint of such inadequacy, is unlikely to prove acceptable. Demonstrators, like wearable sensors in health care, will be used to explore and evaluate these research themes and their tension. New solutions are expected to come out of the majority of projects and demonstrators, many solutions will be generalisable to problems in other sectors, and all projects will produce valuable insights. A robust governance and management structure will ensure good management of the research portfolio, excellent user engagement and focussed coordination of impact from deliverables.
The Hub will further draw on the expertise, networks, and on-going projects of its members to create a cross-disciplinary language for sharing problems and solutions across research domains, industrial sectors, and government departments. This common language will enhance the outreach, development, and training activities of the Hub.
Planned Impact
Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Acceptability, and Security in the Internet of Things, ("PETRAS"), concerns us all. Being able to understand, control, and exploit their interaction in this space will have huge societal, economic, and third sector impact - let us mention personalised healthcare, better transport experience, more effective energy and water supply, more robust facility and supply chain management, new economic mechanisms for data sharing, and trust relationships of particular interest to the third sector.
The Hub's strategic focus is on co-designing solutions in this socio-technological space that are acceptable to their users and that judiciously, if not optimally, trade off conflicting considerations such as security and cost-effectiveness. The Hub will create and provide an environment in which researchers, users, and partners from multiple sectors can bring together expertise, experiences and experimental environments to engage in such co-design. This approach has impact and effective value generation at its core: the Hub has already secured pledges of considerable funding from partners who provide this support for research with impactful outputs; also, the Hub's overall strategy, governance structure, and operational oversight are designed to nurture and evaluate impact and productivity -generating activities - as reflected, for example, in the criteria for internal project selection in the initial and future internal calls.
One large environment for impact creation will be The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Within it, the "Smart in the Park" initiative - led by UCL and partnered with The Mayor of London's Smart London Board - has provided full and open research access to the study of PETRAS aspects of the entire site infrastructure: from waste and water through to energy, lighting, smart homes, future retail, and the logistical complexity of 9.5 million annual visitors across the 257 acres site. The pathways from this research to impact are 6-monthly "Smart in the Park Events", and IoT Weekenders linked to the Future Cities Catapult and the Digital Economy Catapult to showcase research. Additionally, workshop space for PETRAS R&D will be provided to SMEs, think tanks, and innovation incubators within a planned long-term IoT showcase called "The Heart of the Park". All this will be enhanced by facilities that engage citizens with PETRAS and the Internet of Things, such as controlling park lighting via the Internet of Things. We will have similar impact activities for other demonstrators such as the Smart Streets in Lancaster, Wearable Devices in Healthcare in London, the Smart Campus in Surrey, and the Edinburgh Festival.
The Hub will have two full-time Impact Champions serving in key management roles of the Hub; they will ensure that our approach to impact will be agile to allow the Hub to learn from seed projects, and will be inclusive to support an innovative environment in which also disruptive research and development can flourish. Through its linked, nationwide network of experimental environments, exhibition spaces and showcases the Hub will foster impact generation through co-innovation such that outputs have global reach and will help to secure the UK as a world-leader in PETRAS research in the Internet of Things.
PETRAS aspects of the Internet of Things are clearly visible to the general public, policymakers, and decision makers. Therefore, the Hub will maintain and lead a dialogue with those groups and others regarding the importance of PETRAS aspects in our future lives. This is aimed to be high profile, aided by a professional media campaign engaging with the full spectrum of today's media. The Hub will also tap into existing outreach channels such as a Hub website, UK Museums, Academies and Professional Societies. The aim is for the Hub to become an authoritative global voice of PETRAS/IoT aspects, and to create brand value for its long-term, sustainable and impactful future
The Hub's strategic focus is on co-designing solutions in this socio-technological space that are acceptable to their users and that judiciously, if not optimally, trade off conflicting considerations such as security and cost-effectiveness. The Hub will create and provide an environment in which researchers, users, and partners from multiple sectors can bring together expertise, experiences and experimental environments to engage in such co-design. This approach has impact and effective value generation at its core: the Hub has already secured pledges of considerable funding from partners who provide this support for research with impactful outputs; also, the Hub's overall strategy, governance structure, and operational oversight are designed to nurture and evaluate impact and productivity -generating activities - as reflected, for example, in the criteria for internal project selection in the initial and future internal calls.
One large environment for impact creation will be The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Within it, the "Smart in the Park" initiative - led by UCL and partnered with The Mayor of London's Smart London Board - has provided full and open research access to the study of PETRAS aspects of the entire site infrastructure: from waste and water through to energy, lighting, smart homes, future retail, and the logistical complexity of 9.5 million annual visitors across the 257 acres site. The pathways from this research to impact are 6-monthly "Smart in the Park Events", and IoT Weekenders linked to the Future Cities Catapult and the Digital Economy Catapult to showcase research. Additionally, workshop space for PETRAS R&D will be provided to SMEs, think tanks, and innovation incubators within a planned long-term IoT showcase called "The Heart of the Park". All this will be enhanced by facilities that engage citizens with PETRAS and the Internet of Things, such as controlling park lighting via the Internet of Things. We will have similar impact activities for other demonstrators such as the Smart Streets in Lancaster, Wearable Devices in Healthcare in London, the Smart Campus in Surrey, and the Edinburgh Festival.
The Hub will have two full-time Impact Champions serving in key management roles of the Hub; they will ensure that our approach to impact will be agile to allow the Hub to learn from seed projects, and will be inclusive to support an innovative environment in which also disruptive research and development can flourish. Through its linked, nationwide network of experimental environments, exhibition spaces and showcases the Hub will foster impact generation through co-innovation such that outputs have global reach and will help to secure the UK as a world-leader in PETRAS research in the Internet of Things.
PETRAS aspects of the Internet of Things are clearly visible to the general public, policymakers, and decision makers. Therefore, the Hub will maintain and lead a dialogue with those groups and others regarding the importance of PETRAS aspects in our future lives. This is aimed to be high profile, aided by a professional media campaign engaging with the full spectrum of today's media. The Hub will also tap into existing outreach channels such as a Hub website, UK Museums, Academies and Professional Societies. The aim is for the Hub to become an authoritative global voice of PETRAS/IoT aspects, and to create brand value for its long-term, sustainable and impactful future
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Carillion (Collaboration)
- Sogeti Nederland B.V. (Collaboration)
- Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- In Touch Ltd (Collaboration)
- Thales Group (Collaboration)
- Baylor College of Medicine (Collaboration)
- Ordnance Survey (Collaboration)
- Microsoft Research (Collaboration)
- BT Group (Collaboration)
- Fujitsu (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Refuge (Collaboration)
- NVIDIA (Collaboration)
- NEC Corporation (Collaboration)
- British Standards Institute (BSI Group) (Collaboration)
- Jinan University (Collaboration)
- InterDigital (Collaboration)
- O2 Telefonica Europe plc (Collaboration)
- University of Pittsburgh (Collaboration)
- Telefonica S.A (Collaboration)
- EverLedger (Collaboration)
- Qonex Ltd (Collaboration)
- Singapore Management University (SMU) (Collaboration)
- Church of England (Collaboration)
- Airbus Group (Collaboration)
- Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Parsons Brinckerhoff (Collaboration)
- Alan Turing Institute (Collaboration)
- Google (Collaboration)
- Mevaluate Holding Limited (Collaboration)
- British Gas (Collaboration)
- Home Office (Collaboration)
- Royal Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Atomic Weapons Establishment (Collaboration)
- Grove IS (Collaboration)
- InTouch Ltd (Collaboration)
- Amadeus Capital Partners Limited (Collaboration)
- XAIN AG (Collaboration)
- Her Majesty's Government Communications (Collaboration)
- Cisco International Limited (Collaboration)
- Newman & Spurr Consultancy Limited (Collaboration)
- Cube Controls Ltd (Collaboration)
- National Crime Agency (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Costain Group (Collaboration)
- Department of Transport (Collaboration)
- Concentra Analytics (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Duke University (Collaboration)
- Nettitude Limited (Collaboration)
- Teoco (Collaboration)
- University of Italian Switzerland (Collaboration)
- Poplar HARCA (Collaboration)
- Raytheon Systems Ltd (Collaboration)
- Lloyds Bank (Collaboration)
- Privitar (Collaboration)
- ZTE Corpoation (Collaboration)
- Balfour Beatty (Collaboration)
- Family Online Safety Institute (Collaboration)
- Holst Centre and Phillips, Holland (Collaboration)
- Building Research Establishment (Collaboration)
- Southampton City Council (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Transport Systems Catapult (Collaboration)
- University of Ottawa (Collaboration)
- Intel (United States) (Collaboration)
- CityVerve (Collaboration)
- Callsign Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (Collaboration)
- MASS Consultants Limited (Collaboration)
- The London Legacy Development Corporation (Collaboration)
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Collaboration)
- Greater London Authority (Collaboration)
- Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) (Collaboration)
- Boston University (Collaboration)
- DIGITAL CATAPULT (Collaboration)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Collaboration)
- Transport Research Laboratory Ltd (TRL) (Collaboration)
- INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY (Collaboration)
- Tesco (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- University of Georgia (Collaboration)
- TÜV SÜD Product Service (Collaboration)
- Cisco Systems (Netherlands) (Collaboration)
- Lancaster City Council (Collaboration)
- Nexor Ltd (Collaboration)
- Meridian Mobility UK (Collaboration)
- The Micro:bit Educational Foundation (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) (Collaboration)
- Pinsent Masons (Collaboration)
- University of Lugano (Collaboration)
- Network Rail (Collaboration)
- IoT Security Foundation (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Which? (Collaboration)
- L3 TRL Technology (Collaboration)
- Dementia UK (Collaboration)
- Purple Secure Systems (Collaboration)
- Siemens AG (Collaboration)
- Barclays (Collaboration)
Publications
Ah-Fat P
(2019)
Optimal Accuracy-Privacy Trade-Off for Secure Computations
in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Alberts G
(2016)
Competition and norms: A self-defeating combination?
in Energy Policy
Almutairi A
(2020)
Designing for conflict
Almutairi A
(2019)
Why simple is best
Ani U
(2020)
Design Considerations for Building Credible Security Testbeds: Perspectives from Industrial Control System Use Cases
in Journal of Cyber Security Technology
Ani U
(2020)
A review of the use and utility of industrial network-based open source simulators: functionality, security, and policy viewpoints
in The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology
Ani Uchenna D
(2019)
A Review of Critical Infrastructure Protection Approaches: Improving Security through Responsiveness to the Dynamic Modelling Landscape
in arXiv e-prints
Anthi E
(2019)
A Supervised Intrusion Detection System for Smart Home IoT Devices
in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Title | All SparK Design Fiction |
Description | Design Fiction relating to use of batteries in Home |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Contributed to research papers |
Title | BitBarista |
Description | Bitbarista serves you coffee in exchange for a Bitcoin contribution towards its future coffee supply. The coffee beans used to make your coffee served will have been selected collectively by previous customers. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Initial studies of BitBarista with 42 participants reveal challenges of designing for connected systems, particularly in terms of perceptions of data gathering and sharing, as well as assumptions generated by current models of consumption. A discussion is followed by a series of suggestions for increasing positive attitudes towards data use in interactive systems. |
URL | https://www.designinformatics.org/research_output/bitbarista-2/ |
Title | BitBarista: Autonomous Bitcoin Coffee Machine |
Description | BitBarista is a technical probe designed and built to explore perceptions of value transactions with a new Internet of Things device. It's comprised of a hacked Delonghi coffee machine, enhanced with a Raspberry Pi which reads signals from the coffee machines sensors, controls its functions, and connects it to the Internet. BitBarista is also equipped with its own Bitcoin account. It serves coffee in exchange for a Bitcoin contribution towards its next coffee supply. The coffee beans used by the machine will have been selected collectively by previous customers. The interaction begins with the machine displaying data on the state of coffee-producing countries looking for information on climate, work conditions, political situation, infrastructure, price stability and demand, which the machine purportedly browses online. From this data the machine selects top-ranked options for coffee beans in 4 categories: best quality, lowest price, lowest environmental impact and highest social responsibility. It then offers users the opportunity to choose one of these options for its next supply, and customers pay for their coffee accordingly. After the purchase, a new screen situates the choice within the pool of choices previously made, all anonymised, displaying the supply most likely to be ordered next. The machine also presents some autonomous features: it can order coffee and reward customers for helping with its maintenance, e.g. by refilling coffee beans, filling its water tank, and cleaning out used coffee grounds. When Bitbarista detects that a maintenance task needs performing, it will request help from customers and offer either free coffee or a payment in Bitcoin in return. Bitbarista is fitted with a small camera, enabling it to read smart codes for Bitcoin transactions, so that it can make payments to customers' Bitcoin wallets. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | BitBarista has formed an integral part of a study on initial perceptions of data transactions with a new Internet of Things device. It has been used in a multitude of talks and presentations, to explain and demonstrate the potential of Bitcoin, and IoT devices. It is now part of a further study in which it will be situated in series of office spaces, to gather perceptions of longer term use. |
URL | https://iotuk.org.uk/bitbarista/ |
Title | Block Exchange: Blockchain workshop, online Toolkit |
Description | Block Exchange is a fast-paced workshop activity intended to open minds to alternative means of value exchange. Using Lego to simulate the Blockchain, participants experiment with different ways of trading, starting from the basic acquisition of resources, through a fluctuating market and finally exploring peer-to-peer trading of value. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | Block Exchange toolkit has been used to support a series of Block Exchange workshops (all recorded on Research Fish), including a kick-off event for EPSRC new funding call for developing DLT's. It is under a CC BY license and is available for anyone to use. |
URL | http://blockexchange.designinformatics.org |
Title | HealthBand Design Fiction |
Description | Design Fiction exploring DiY Healcare Wearables |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Contributed to research papers |
Title | IoT Gnome |
Description | The development of humanised IoT devices has created an emerging discussion around 'Smart Gnomes' aimed at deployment around QEOP. It could be argued that the output is a creative product/digital artefact - recording and replaying memories of places and spaces. The device has featured on the BBC News (technology) as well as the front cover/centre spread of The Bartlett Year Book |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Discussion around IoT and Ethics, Security, Privacy and Trust as well as a discussion around the concepts of humanising IoT devices. |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/review |
Title | Karma Kettles |
Description | Karma Kettles is a game which looks at how we might store and trade energy in the future. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | The Karma Kettles show the state of the grid in terms of produced and stored energy and the teams receive karma points according to their decisions of storing, using or giving energy back to the grid. However, all is not straightforward! Giving energy back when the grid has peaked can result in a negative karma. |
Title | Living Room of the Future |
Description | The LRoTF platfrom was developed with PETRAS partners BBC R&D as part of the AHRC Objects of Immersion research project which explored how media broadcasters could utilise Object-Based Media (OBM) to deliver more immersive experiences to audiences in home environments. The LRoTF utilises OBM to dynamically customise radio and television content based on audiences' personal, contextual and derived data. OBM delivers personalised viewing experiences by breaking media into smaller parts (known as 'objects'), describing how they relate to each other semantically, and then reassembling them into many possible personalised programmes. In addition to the media-delivery aspects, the LRoTF explores data protection issues associated with OBM's use of data, by integrating with the privacy-enhancing Databox system. Further the LRofTF extends OBM by including off the shelf and bespoke Internet of Internet of Things objects as part of the media performance in order to co-produce, with an audience, a 'lived' experience of the future as a form of 'Experiential Design Fiction'. With the support of PETRAS a new experience was created and a version of the LRofTF installed at the V&A which was designed to highlight potential futures of IoT involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Edge Computing. Additionally the experience highlighted research from PETRAS HTIoT project relating to designing IoT products and services that foregroud IoT data flows and algorithms and the often transactional nature of personal data production in the home. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | Alongside highlighting the research of PETRAS to some of the 22,000 visitors who attended the design weekend at the V&A nearly 100 were able to experience the LRofTF installation directly and engaged in many interesting discussions around the potential adoption IoT products and in the Home. |
URL | https://uk.reuters.com/video/2018/10/25/tv-plots-altered-by-our-individual-data?videoId=476741733 |
Title | Orbit Privacy Design Fiction |
Description | Several artefacts coming together to create a Design Fiction based around the Orbit Privacy concept (including film, concept designs, use-case examples). |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Practical work has contributed to papers both published and under review. Used in various different engagement and workshop activities. |
URL | https://www.slideshare.net/josephlindley/anticipating-gdpr-in-smart-homes-through-fictional-conversa... |
Title | Personalised Media Experiences on Pervasive Display Networks |
Description | Video submission to the workshop on reconfigurable television experiences at the DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS conference |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | enabled the attendance at the workshop, opened up opportunities for future collaborations with other partners |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4H7_8f7lp8 |
Title | Polly Kettle Design Fiction |
Description | Design Fiction of Internet Enabled Kettle designed based on Object Orientated Ontology |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Contributed to research papers |
Title | Polly, Smart Kettle Design Fiction |
Description | Several artefacts coming together to create a Design Fiction based around the Polly Smart Kettle project (photographs, marketing materials, product documentation, packaging, etc) |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Practical work has contributed to papers both published and under review. Used in various different engagement and workshop activities. |
URL | http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/on-the-internet-everybody-knows-youre-a-whatc... |
Title | Talking Orwell |
Description | Talking Orwell was an IoT installation for the 2017 'Being Human' festival at Senate House. Three 3D-printed busts of George Orwell were placed around the building, which visitors could interact with via their smartphones. Each bust asked for contributions to the 'Memory Hole': the furnaces in which inconvenient political truths were 'forgotten' in Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | The project involved partnership work with the University of London, Senate House, and the Being Human Festival. Whilst exact visitor numbers are not available, the busts were placed in prominent locations within the public spaces of Senate House, and were deployed for the full week of the festival. |
Description | The original 47 user partners are engaging in the research activities and a further set of 80 organisations are now engaged in new activities. The Strategic Research Call and Partnership Research Fund have identified new projects and the portfolio of research of the PETRAS hub now includes over 50 projects and streams. Over 400 publications reflect the research developed and these are now being consolidated into demonstrators that will act as research knowledge in use in real-world environments. Five Demonstrator projects have exhibited the practical application of derived knowledge in applications across: e.g. Smart Homes, Intelligent Traffic Management, IoT Data Sharing (tools and a Use case), Movement of High-value Assets A highly collaborative working framework, methodology and culture has been created that allows productive and insightful cross-domain research between the Social and Physical Sciences. |
Exploitation Route | Policy findings are already providing value to sponsoring department - DCMS (Secure by Design Code of Practice). Findings are influencing industry agendas and R&D priorities, e.g. at BRE in their Smart Home programme, Ordnance Survey and others |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Construction Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Electronics Energy Environment Financial Services and Management Consultancy Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Retail Security and |
URL | https://www.petrashub.org/ |
Description | PETRAS highlights: . The number of user partner organisations engaging with PETRAS is now more than 120. . 51 Projects have been tackled by more than 60 researchers . New insights into Cybersecurity of the IoT are emerging due to the collaboration of social and technical sciences. Some examples are the Security by Design report recently launched by DDCMS and also the Policy report developed with the RAEng "Internet of Things, realising the potential of a trusted smart world" that combines the outputs of the PETRAS Research Streams. . A very successful IET/PETRAS 'Living in the IoT. Conference was held in Q2 2018, co-sponsored by IoTUK. Building on that success another is scheduled for May 2019. . A Streams Final Report was published in Q1 2019 reporting on the outcomes and conclusions of the five stream activities (horizontals), as well as setting out directions for future research. . Several PETRAS academics have been invited to provide input as experts in very senior technical and policy forums. Please refer to the awards and recognition list. . 30 new projects have been funded through the Hub's Strategic Research Fund (SRF) and Partnership Resource Fund (PRF) calls, which were co-designed with and supported by more than 50 user partners. . Six PETRAS Demonstrators have been completed to show 'knowledge in use', two of which were directly funded by the Hub's strategic partner the Lloyd's Register Foundation. Outputs from more than four projects have been incorporated in each . Additional funding has been captured and several other possibilities have been identified. Financial contributions are over £1.6M and in-kind contributions over £7.7M. . A Framework Agreement between UCL and GCHQ has been established, serving as a conduit to allow PETRAS universities and partners to answer GCHQ calls for knowledge. To date, this partnership resulted in a total of £350k funding granted to 9 projects, and there are ongoing discussions for new project proposals. . PETRAS brand is positioned as the go-to Research hub for Cybersecurity of IoT in the UK. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail,Security and |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Australian National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book |
Geographic Reach | Australia |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Our input resulted in tech abuse now being accounted for in the Bench Book: ?https://dfvbenchbook.aija.org.au/contents. |
URL | https://dfvbenchbook.aija.org.au/contents |
Description | CPNI / BEIS panel developing a cybersecure Digital Built Britain |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | On-going work to specify secure data structure options and operating paradigms (including IoT) for Digital Built Britain (BIM Level 3) |
URL | http://www.digital-built-britain.com/ |
Description | CPNI panel for cybersecurity of BIM Level 2 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | The panel evolved a new standard (PAS 1192-5) for the cybersecurity of design and transactional information relating to Building Information Modelling (BIM Level 2) |
URL | http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/pas1192-5_overview/ |
Description | Challenges of Dual-use Technologies in European Research |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | My contribution has been provided to the larger report to the European Commission on this issue |
Description | Citation in Reform Healthcare in AI report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.reform.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AI-in-Healthcare-report_.pdf |
Description | Commission Panel member on The Making of an Industrial Strategy research project |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Consumer Guidance for Smart Devices in the Home |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/secure-by-design/government-response-to-the-secure-by-des... |
Description | DCMS Secure by Design Labelling Scheme workshops |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Delegate of USITO in Beijing, China, on Cryptography and Blockchain Technology, Standards, and Policy |
Geographic Reach | Asia |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Education and Training Foundation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Follow up requests to work with individual education professionals |
Description | Emerging Technologies Community of Interest (HMG EmTechCoI) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Influenced government policies in each of the participating departments. Each was challenged with identifying the influence of the Willets '8-Great + 2' technologies. IoT was one of the '2' along with quantum. Departments considered the effects of these technologies both on their internal and external activities. |
Description | European Technology & Innovation Platforms and Strategic Energy Technology Plan (2017) |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Expert feedback on the Chapter "Next-Gen Internet of Things" for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | The work and insight PETRAS provided to the ICO's foresight research into the intersection of emerging technologies with data protection and privacy has been enormously helpful. It has allowed us to build and develop our regulatory approaches towards critical technologies such as next generation IoT and the input provided will continue to support our work as we develop formal guidance for those seeking to use these technologies. |
URL | https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/4023338/ico-future-tech-report-20221214.pdf |
Description | Experts' Opinion for the Information Comissioner's Office Technology and Innovation Foresight |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | - The need for product cost reduction, coupled with an increased awareness of cyber-risks by the marketplace, will drive the adoption of industry standards and approval processes. Increased affordability will make IoT functionality the norm in almost all consumer and industrial OEM products - Significant increases in multi-core low-cost processor performance/price ratio will drive the pervasive adoption of machine learning embedded in IoT devices or deployed at the Edge, adjacent to them. Standards for security will include resilience to cyber-attack, facilitated by embedded AI - Home routers will include smart, AI-based detection and gate-keeping for protection of internet traffic in home and work environments - Risks of personal data leaking must be balanced against the benefits that such devices provide and care must be taken not to damage markets or commercial opportunities in the name of personal data safety , possibly missing out on the large amount of benefits to prosperity, safety, quality of life - Commercial and public sector trust will be high if the systems are transparently robust - Sensor-based systems will become more prevalent, embedded more in infrastructure (beyond what is described as IoT today). For example, IoT devices 3D-printed into materials used in buildings, bridges, etc. |
Description | Gave evidence to DCMS regarding a possible a cost/risk assessment in relation to IoT devices ownership, malicious attacks, and costs involved. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | IET Innovation & Emerging Technologies Policy Panel |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | The IET Innovation & Emerging Technology Panel looks at innovation methods and role models, and 'technologies to watch', providing advice reactively and proactively to government |
URL | http://www.theiet.org/policy/panels/innovation/ |
Description | In cooperation in working group recommendation to the IoT forum. |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Description | Infrastructure Opereators Adaptation Forum |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | IOAF allows infrastructure operators across all sectors to share research needs and best practice associated with adapting infrastructure to the effects of a changing climate, particularly extreme weather |
URL | http://thecccw.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/John-Dora-Cardiff-Adaptation-Workshop-Oct-2015.pdf |
Description | MRes course |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Dr Lo has recently revising and updating a teaching module in our "MRes in Medical Robots and Image-Guided Intervention" at Imperial College to introduce the latest research in sensing for healthcare and wellbeing applications. |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/hamlyn-centre/mres-and-phd/ |
Description | Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | NPL Science & Technology Advisory Council (STAC) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | STAC provides expert external advice to NPL scientists and engineers. My contribution is as the STAC 'owner' for Digital Metrology, including IoT technologies |
URL | http://www.npl.co.uk/about/stac/ |
Description | Orbits |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | We consulted on the development of "?Orbits: a global field guide to advance intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed interventions to technology-facilitated gender-based violence" by the support organisation and charity Chayn. |
URL | https://chayn.notion.site/Orbits-a-global-field-guide-to-advance-intersectional-survivor-centred-and... |
Description | PETRAS SGP - G-IoT Tech Abuse Guide and Resource List for Frontline Workers and Support Services Working With Victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The UCL researcher team of the G-IoT project launch a guide and resource list for frontline workers on how the Internet of Things (IoT) can affect victims of gender-based domestic and sexual violence and abuse. We presented the work to the London VAWG Consortium made up of 29 organisations working in partnership to deliver comprehensive, high-quality services to communities delivering a range of support for survivors of domestic and sexual violence across London. All of these 29 organisations have real-world, practical insights into technological abuse and coercive control and will use the resources in their day to day practice when engaging with victims. An updated resource list was published on the 8th of March 2019: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/sites/steapp/files/g-iot-resource-list.pdf |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/steapp-news-publication/2018/iot-guide-for-support-workers |
Description | PETRAS SGP - Lecture "IoT in the Home: Data Protection and Security Challenges", Engineering and Public Policy Course, Faculty of Engineering, UCL |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The lecture addressed the main policy challenge of balancing individual privacy with national security in the context of increased deployment of IoT in the home. The lecture presented the latest market growth projections for IoT and analysed the latest policy developments with impact on IoT (e.g. GDPR, the NIS Directive, UK National Cyber Security Strategy). The lecture had a training component, where participants (engineering students) were coached to write policy briefings for a Select Committee in the House of Commons in order to highlight the main tensions between privacy and security in the context of IoT. |
Description | PETRAS SGP - Lecture "The Policy Effect: Enabling or Disabling the Capacity of IoT", Social Informatics course at University of Warwick |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The lecture introduced the main privacy and security challenges of IoT on current data protection and cybersecurity policy in the UK. It proposed different technological, regulatory and governance approaches to tackling the unique risks and challenges that IoT raises in a number of key sectors, such as consumer electronics, utilities, national infrastructure. |
Description | PETRAS SGP: DCMS IoT Secure by Design Report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | Our PETRAS research resulted in a report for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. The "Summary literature review of industry recommendations and international developments on IoT security" was both cited in the Ministerial report that sets out the Government's work to help ensure the consumer "internet of things" (IoT) is secure by design, with security built in from the start. Additionally, our report was added as Annex to the Government website alongside DCMS' publication. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/secure-by-design |
Description | PETRAS SGP: Gender and IoT, Acknowledgements in "Stalking and Harassment" POSTNote, 17.12.2018 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0592#fullreport |
Description | PETRAS SGP: Gender and IoT, Citation in "Tech vs Abuse: Research Findings 2019" Report, May 2019 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/464d6d_b465be597dee4e04b8fac09363e4ef62.pdf |
Description | PETRAS SGP: Gender and IoT, Citations in "Cyber Security of Consumer Devices" POSTNote, 07.02.2019 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0593#fullreport |
Description | PETRAS SGP: Gender and IoT, Evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/human-rights-committee/leg... |
Description | PETRAS SGP: Gender and IoT, Review of NCSC Guidance Draft Document on Technology-Facilitated Abuse, 17.04.2019 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | PETRAS SGP: Lecture "Of Surveillance and Censorship. Technology and People's Security, Rights and Privacy" for Social Informatics course at the University of Warwick |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Conducted a lecture as part of the Social Informatics course at the University of Warwick. The course comprised of both undergraduate and postgraduate computer science students and covered issues related to the use of technology, in particular IoT, for potentially adverse purposes. It made students critically rethink their position within the future workforce and encouraged them to critically assess the status of computer science within society. Aspects such as secure by design and privacy by design were addressed and ethical dilemmas discussed. This highlighted the relevance of designing products along the lines of the upcoming GDPR and required technical as well as ethical standards. |
Description | Postgraduate Teaching on IoT in International Security |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | We have initiated teaching at postgraduate level that introduces the cyber security of the IoT to students - many of whom have ambitions to enter the public service and the private sector that supports UK cyber security policy making. This teaching is delivered currently through a number of modules in the Masters of International Relations but we are also in the approval process for a new MSc in Global Politics and Digital Technologies that will commence in September 2017 (impact still to come). |
Description | President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | President of the largest Professional Engineering Institution in Europe Recent submission to government, with the Royal Academy of Engineering, on Brexit Response in development on the Industrial Strategy |
URL | http://www.theiet.org/policy/eu-2016/index.cfm |
Description | Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://petras-iot.org/petraspublications/?tsr=The+UK+Code+of+Practice+for+Consumer+IoT+Cybersecurit... |
Description | Report on Harnessing Economic Value in IoT for DCMS |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://iotuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/State-of-the-Art-in-IoT---Beyond-Economic-Value2.pdf |
Description | SAGE panel advising COBR on Flooding and Flood Mitigation under Sir Mark Walport, GCSA |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Consultation led to recommendations to improve built environment resilience to flooding, identification of vulnerabilities in buildings and infrastructure, remediation to improved standards following flooding, changes in insurance industry approaches to flooding and remediation. Ultimately, the findings led to the commissioning of the Bonfield Review (2016). |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-property-level-flood-resilience-bonfield-2016-a... |
Description | Smart London Board |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | The Smart London Board advises the Mayor of London on digital technologies. The board has had direct impact across London on funding and instigating projects to ensure London remains a work leader in both research and practice in digital city based technologies. |
URL | https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/business-and-economy/science-and-technology/smart-london/smart-... |
Description | Smart Systems Forum |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | BEIS and OFGEM developed plans to remove barriers, improve market and regulatory framework, catalyse innovation, and shape roles and responsibilities in the shift towards a smart, more flexible energy system which meets the needs of consumers and businesses now and in the future. |
Description | Systematic literature review for DSIT: To what extent do public perceptions of connected places affect the security and sustainability of connected places? |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | The authors argue that there is a need for more research on the mechanisms for assessing the influence of public perceptions, and associated behaviours, on connected place security threats. The authors also argue there is a need to research models and tools currently being deployed by connected place design and management to understand and influence public perceptions and behaviors. In addition, authors identify a need to investigate the complex relationship between the public and connected place managers and explore the patterns between specific connected place cybersecurity incidents and the methods used to influence public perceptions. |
Description | UK Government Security by Design |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Description | (eCampus For Care) Impact Acceleration Account Seed Funding |
Amount | £14,851 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Department | Impact Acceleration Account Lancaster |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | (eCampus For Care) Lean Launch Programme Cohort 10 |
Amount | £3,700 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 06/2021 |
Description | : Improving Security with Techno-Human Vulnerability Analysis (THuVA |
Amount | £15,436 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 10002518 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 07/2021 |
Description | AHRC Immersive Experiences: Objects of Immersion |
Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/R008728/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 08/2018 |
Description | Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research |
Amount | £81,931 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R006784/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2017 |
End | 06/2022 |
Description | Building Cyber Resilience in Smart Harvesting Machineries |
Amount | £497,479 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 01/2022 |
Description | Commercial Funding from PETRAS partner to contribute to the development of the transport and mobility constellation |
Amount | £49,926 (GBP) |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 05/2018 |
Description | Cyber Security in Nuclear Systems |
Amount | £118,042 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | EPSRC - Impact Acceleration Account 2015-2017 |
Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/K503745/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2016 |
End | 03/2017 |
Description | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand (LoLo) |
Amount | £4,248,119 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/L01517X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand (LoLo) |
Amount | £4,248,119 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/L01517X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand (LoLo) |
Amount | £4,248,119 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/L01517X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant |
Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | EPSRC Industrial CASE Allocations 2017 |
Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2017 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | Future Infrastructure for Retail Remittances |
Amount | £300,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 03/2023 |
Description | GCHQ Framework Agreement: Task 1 |
Amount | £150,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 4204565/RFA 15311 |
Organisation | Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 04/2018 |
Description | Google IoT Award |
Amount | $5,000 (USD) |
Organisation | |
Department | Research at Google |
Sector | Private |
Country | United States |
Start | 05/2016 |
End | 09/2016 |
Description | H2020-ART-2016-2017: AUTOMATED ROAD TRANSPORT |
Amount | € 36,000,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 04/2021 |
Description | ISCF PFER Energy Revolution Research Consortium |
Amount | £7,828,714 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S031863/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2018 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Innovate UK Connected Autonomous Cars Call 2 |
Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innova UK |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 12/2018 |
Description | LRF open call |
Amount | £142,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Lloyd's Register Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 02/2019 |
Description | Lloyd's Register Foundation Grant Funding |
Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | G\100210 |
Organisation | Lloyd's Register Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2016 |
End | 01/2019 |
Description | MaaS: Enabling Rural Geospatial data e-Solutions (MERGeS) |
Amount | £9,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2021 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Mental Health Technologies - UK and China collaboration |
Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 2017-RLWK9-11046, |
Organisation | Newton Fund |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 03/2019 |
Description | New Industrial Systems: Chatty Factories |
Amount | £1,467,376 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R021031/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2017 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | Newton Fund Instituional Links |
Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 330760239 |
Organisation | Newton Fund |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | Next Stage Digital Economy Centre in the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) |
Amount | £3,816,713 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T022485/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2020 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | Ordenance Survey Research contract with Surrey University |
Amount | £360,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | GEOSEC project |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2016 |
End | 09/2017 |
Description | PETRAS 2 |
Amount | £13,849,999 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S035362/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | PETRAS PRF Making the Invisible Visible - Secure, Trustworthy, IoT Displays and Sensors for Urban Environments in CityVerve |
Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | iDice |
Organisation | PETRAS |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2018 |
End | 01/2019 |
Description | PETRAS SGP - "Gender and IoT" Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network (VAMHN) |
Amount | £1,250,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2018 |
End | 11/2022 |
Description | PETRAS SGP - EPSRC PETRAS PRF Fund "GIoT Project" |
Amount | £21,057 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 170364 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2019 |
End | 07/2019 |
Description | PETRAS SGP: PETRAS PRF Funding 2016-2019 for "Gender and IoT", |
Amount | £21,057 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 170364 |
Organisation | PETRAS |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2019 |
End | 07/2019 |
Description | PETRAS SGP: Social Science Plus+ Award: "The Implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) on Victims of Gender-Based Domestic Violence and Abuse (G-IoT)" |
Amount | £11,500 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 07/2018 |
Description | PETRAS SGP: UCL Public Policy Small Grant: "Gender and IoT Policy Dissemination Strategy" |
Amount | £3,498 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 07/2019 |
Description | PETRAS SRF Funding - ReCoPS |
Amount | £215,126 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ReCoPS |
Organisation | PETRAS |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 09/2018 |
Description | RFP 1604 Secure and Private Internet of Things |
Amount | $120,000 (USD) |
Funding ID | CG# 955107 |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Sector | Private |
Country | United States |
Start | 06/2017 |
End | 07/2018 |
Description | SPRITE+ Sandpit on Digital Vulnerabilities - First RespondXR: Digital vulnerability of immersive training for first responders |
Amount | £29,672 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2021 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Secure Systems Engineering for Space (SSE4Space) |
Amount | € 90,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 10/2022 |
Description | SkyBridge |
Amount | £2,921,893 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 94323-554658 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 06/2019 |
Description | The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse) |
Amount | £96,736 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 10/2022 |
Description | Transactive Energy Colombia Initiative - Industry Academia Partnership Programme - 18/19 |
Amount | £49,388 (GBP) |
Funding ID | IAPP18-19\239 |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 09/2020 |
Description | UK Centre for Research on Energy Demand |
Amount | £18,981,874 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R035288/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship |
Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | MR/W009692/1 |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 10/2026 |
Title | Block Exchange |
Description | Block Exchange is a fast-paced workshop activity that will open minds to the future possibilities of value exchange. Using Lego to simulate the Blockchain participants will experiment with trading as economic models shift from the basic acquisition of resources, through a fluctuating market and finally into peer-to-peer trading of value where anything goes! |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This activity is aimed primarily at people with non-technical backgrounds who want to begin exploring the possibilities of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies to envisage the potential for social change and disruption, and the wealth of new scenarios and applications. People skilled with technology may also benefit from involvement in the activity, especially if they are new to Blockchain, as this is more about opening up ideas on value rather than a technological explanation. The inclusion of technical people in the activity can therefore enhance the overall experience of the group, by bringing this expertise into the conversation. |
URL | http://blockexchange.designinformatics.org/ |
Title | EclipseIoT Secure Gateway |
Description | This is an implementation of the proposed secure IoT gateway. IoT Gateway on the Raspberry Pi 3 using PubNub + APIs + Security Policy. [Clients/Things] <---[PubNub]---> [RPi3 Gateway] <---[APIs]---> [End-Devices/Things] RPi3 Gateway uses Security Policy located on another server/RPi device, also communicated with through PubNub. Using Python 3.6.x Using IoTDB SmartThings to support Samsung SmartThings Using Python-LGTV to find LG Smart TVs -> Copyright (c) 2014 Ryan Grieve Using PyLGTV to operate LG Smart TVs -> Copyright (c) 2017 Dennis Karpienski Using pastebin-reader to parse code from PasteBin Additional modules needed: PyMySQL (0.7.11) -> pip install PyMySQL PyImgur (0.6.0) -> pip install pyimgur RPi.GPIO (0.6.3) -> pip install python3-rpi.gpio |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | EclipseIoT gateway, significantly improves the security of the heterogeneous IoT ecosystem, as it was able to mitigate against most of the attacks which affect conventional IoT networks. |
URL | https://github.com/sgript/iotgateway |
Title | IoT Observatory |
Description | The development of the IoT Observatory is key towards a core platform and a set of associated technologies in order to support the observation, analysis, and visualisation of interactions and activities in IoT ecosystems. Integration with existing IoT Metadata standards such as the HyperCat make the observatory a robust tool for inter-domain research analyses. Inspired by the Web Observatory platform the IoT Observatory provides infrastructure support for sharing of IoT datasets and analytical applications contributed by various academic and user-partners of the PETRAS for critical research and implementation analyses. The IoT Observatory platform orchestrates several components for data ingestion, integration, storage, and streaming to support data re-use and sharing critical for IoT application domains such as smart cities. To address the privacy concerns of the stakeholders in any IoT ecosystems the observatory platform provides legal and ethical frameworks along with technological support for authentication and authorization. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The IoT Observatory infrastructure is expected to provide critical support for the PETRAS academic and user-partners for sharing research outputs, datasets, and statistics for larger challenges such as tools for detecting data authenticity, verification, and engagement with the IoT user communities in a variety of application domains including Smart cities and healthcare among others. |
URL | https://iotobservatory.io/ |
Title | The POWBAL platform |
Description | This platform allows users to log in, control their energy consumption through the wi-fi plugs and monitor their performance versus others. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This tool led to the reduction of peak-time electricity usage in the samples we tested and is being upgraded to allow broader tests across countries in Europe. |
URL | http://www.powbal.net |
Title | Use of secure identifier management system in the construction industry |
Description | There is an important class of IoT applications in which they are applied to a given deployment of assets, by separating out the deployment face from the implementation of the IoT it is easier to provision different IoT applications on the same on slightly modify deployment. We are investigating a technology which involved secure identifier management systems to describe the deployment, the data produce and protocols for access. The resultant database that be utilize in the IoT implementation and subsequent operation. It is realize that one of the key barriers to the acceptability of IoT applications is the need to ensure security and privacy. Similar concerns will apply as to whether different IoT applications will be permitted to use the same deployment of assets. We are investigating a generic approach to resolving this problem by the use of a secure identifier management system, We will use an existing open source system called Handle. This is nearly to allow rapid progress in tackling the problem. Handle seems to provide the sort of security, distribution and large scale capability to meet most of our requirements.At in an early stage we will explore to what extend the facilities such as security, maintenance and extension in the IoT domain. While both of problem and the approach are generic, it is important to applied them in an specific application domain which is both important and tractable. One such domain is that of the building information model (BIM) which has been mandated by the UK government for our future procurement from central fundings. A current level 2 of that standard foul of the needs of IoT and security. We are making contributions to the migration of that technology towards BIM Level 3, which is targeted to solved this problems completely. One of the main technologies to represent building models is IFC (Industry Foundation Classes). The present state,named IFC4 can help automate building design and construction, but it not rich enough to include IoT and security. To achieve our goal, our work is based in two different contributions:IFC+ and the use of Handle System as support for digital objects. The extension of IFC4 have to had detail descriptions of the attributes required for networks, security and data description. Handle System is a Secure Identifier Management System open available resolve, store and manage system which is globally accessible and widely used in other domain areas. It already contains hundreds of millions of entities in large number of servers. It provides a complete infrastructure for the prevision of types of encryption techniques to ensure the authentication and protection of the digital objects. In addition, the use of Handle permits access control of what entities can perform operations on the deployment database we show in some sample instances how to transform the file based IFC into the sort of database suitable for secure operations with Handle. It is this form of database which is then used for secure IoT applications. Because data and procedures can be incorporated into the Handle system database and in its integrated fashion, this technology can be used also to describe how the data is transmitted and can be accessed. This goes considerably beyond the current achievements of BIM Level 2. The use of both technologies, IFC+ and Handle System, allow to deploy IoT scenarios (Smart buildings) ready to be used by multi stakeholder IoT applications, assuring the privacy and security aspects. This specific Handle implementation includes a number of facilities to improve performances and resilience, we will investigate to what extend this relevant in this application domain. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | We dont yet have any notable impact result. This project only started on October 1st. |
Title | BIM |
Description | Model of buildings for the construction industry which needs to evolve for IoT and security. |
Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Not yet. |
Title | NMS_Research_Data_4 - Supplemental material for The exercisability of the right to data portability in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) environment |
Description | Supplemental material, NMS_Research_Data_4 for The exercisability of the right to data portability in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) environment by Sarah Turner, July Galindo Quintero, Simon Turner, Jessica Lis and Leonie Maria Tanczer in New Media & Society |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://sage.figshare.com/articles/NMS_Research_Data_4_Supplemental_material_for_The_exercisability_... |
Title | NMS_Research_Data_4 - Supplemental material for The exercisability of the right to data portability in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) environment |
Description | Supplemental material, NMS_Research_Data_4 for The exercisability of the right to data portability in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) environment by Sarah Turner, July Galindo Quintero, Simon Turner, Jessica Lis and Leonie Maria Tanczer in New Media & Society |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://sage.figshare.com/articles/NMS_Research_Data_4_Supplemental_material_for_The_exercisability_... |
Title | PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity Database |
Description | PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity Database |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Systematic and complete overview of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity research outputs, collaboration networks, industry partners, impact |
Description | ASTRI |
Organisation | Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute |
Country | Hong Kong |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Our research team will collaborate with ASTRI in investigating new optical technologies which could be applied for health and well being applications. In particular, our team will potentially investigate the application of the optical sensing for pervasive health applications. |
Collaborator Contribution | The ASTRI team will inform our research team on their latest optical technologies. |
Impact | This is a new collaboration and no outcome as yet, but we anticipated that the collaboration could lead to new sensing technologies to enable better health monitoring of patients and elderly. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | ATI-PEDASI |
Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The IoT Observatory which is a lynchpin framework within PEDASI for cybersecurity research in IoT domains will provide a concrete testbed to enable key IoT initiatives to co-operate within a common environment such as the ATI. |
Collaborator Contribution | Prof. Jon Crowcroft will contribute his time on defining the IoT data sharing infrastructure and defining a pilot project that would be demonstrated within the IoT Observatory demonstrator timeframe. The Alan Turing Institute will also commit resources in terms of research software engineers who would support development of the IoT Observatory data sharing infrastructure. |
Impact | The partnership has commenced on July 1. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Airbus Group support for SecCNIoT Demonstrator |
Organisation | Airbus Group |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of demonstrator for studying the anatomy of cyber security attacks in converged IoT / ICS environments |
Collaborator Contribution | Industry input into use case, experimental design and validity of approach for demonstrator |
Impact | National demonstrator of attack anatomy (Feb 2019) |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Amadeus Capital Partners Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things |
Organisation | Amadeus Capital Partners Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Amadeus Capital Partners Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Prepared to devote six man days per year to reviewing spin-put opportunities and mentoring selected teams who are keen to commercialise their work. * This equates to £50k of in-kind support * By developing an on-going relationship with key researchers, we also hope that we might find an opportunity to support one or more companies with 'proof of concept' or seed investment - subject to our noraml due diligence criteria |
Impact | Amadeus Capital Partners Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | BIM - Handle Security Towards BIM-Level 3 |
Organisation | Digital Catapult |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We are showing how the LoRa network technology can be integrated with IoT applications in buildings. |
Collaborator Contribution | As part of this the Digital Catapult has provided a node to the LoRa network. |
Impact | Still ongoing. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | BRE Group Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Building Research Establishment |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | BRE Group have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting of meetings at BRE and also identifying key stakeholders who may offer additional value to the work of the hub * Sharing findings (including associated data) from previous research in the 3 key areas identified and other relevant topics, including Connected buildings, city and national level housing stock data alayses, building energy monitoring * The opportunity to set up approriate monitoring and metering projects using the BRE Innovation Parks or other suitable test facilities * Providing relevant BRE experts to attend workshops and sandpits in priority areas * Part-fund new studentships in key areas - 1 per year if matched funding can be found * Site visits or placements by staff and students to BRE to see facilities and meet key staff * Active involvement in technical or sttering group as appropriate * Align relevant future BRE research in key areas with the Hub This contribution will account for approx. £300k of in-kind support (conservative estimate) with ambition that BRE will work closely with UCL and other relevant partners to grow the associated research significantly for the benefits of partners |
Impact | BRE Group have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | BSI and Digital Catapult - IoT Multidisciplinary Standards Platform |
Organisation | British Standards Institute (BSI Group) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | UCL has funded 0.4 FTE to lead this project and allocated funds to run a series of validation workshops and design activities. We have also provided the fund to contract the development of wire frames to be used to validate the concept with user partners. |
Collaborator Contribution | Digital Catapult has engaged their experts in Standards to help develop the IoT MSP concept and they have also faciitated access to SMEs that will be one of the user community for the platform. BSI has engaged their experts in Standards to help develop the IoT MSP concept. They have also conducted a servey to inform how different organisations are using standards today and to help gather some initial requirements for the platform. |
Impact | The results of the survey will be used to inform the research that will be visible in a number of publication. Both the IET and BSI have shown interest in taking the concept into implementation. The business model and roadmap for implementation will be a formal deliverable of this projects. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | BSI and Digital Catapult - IoT Multidisciplinary Standards Platform |
Organisation | Digital Catapult |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | UCL has funded 0.4 FTE to lead this project and allocated funds to run a series of validation workshops and design activities. We have also provided the fund to contract the development of wire frames to be used to validate the concept with user partners. |
Collaborator Contribution | Digital Catapult has engaged their experts in Standards to help develop the IoT MSP concept and they have also faciitated access to SMEs that will be one of the user community for the platform. BSI has engaged their experts in Standards to help develop the IoT MSP concept. They have also conducted a servey to inform how different organisations are using standards today and to help gather some initial requirements for the platform. |
Impact | The results of the survey will be used to inform the research that will be visible in a number of publication. Both the IET and BSI have shown interest in taking the concept into implementation. The business model and roadmap for implementation will be a formal deliverable of this projects. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | BT Letter of Support to PETRAS Research Hub |
Organisation | BT Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | BT have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of the project. To date this has not been deployed but will be as the project progresses. |
Collaborator Contribution | * Membership on the advisory board (5% FTE = £6k p.a.) - £6,000 * Contribution to the requirements specification (5% FTE = £6k p.a.) - £6,000 * Showcasing the deliverables with our user communities (£20k p.a.) - £20,000) * Attending technical research meetings (5% FTE = £6k p.a.) - £6,000 * Reviewing and evaluating emerging research pitputs (5% FTE = £6k p.a.) - £6,000 * Use of test bed and networking facilities (£20k p.a.) - £20,000 * Internships/industrial secondments (£6k p.a.) - £6,000 |
Impact | PETRAS Membership of the Privacy and Trust board of CityVerve |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | BT support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | BT Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Barclays Bank PLC Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Barclays |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Barclays Bank PLC have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting of meetings or events at our 'Rise' events * Membership of an external "advisory group" * Attending multi-disciplinary workshops and "sandpits" run by the Hub around certain Themes and Challenges *Hosting secondments of research staff and students from te Hu (short/long term) * Contributing expertise and advice through regular (e.g. annual) bilateral meetings with Hub investigators/leaders Total value of in-kind contribution is valued at approximately £20,000 |
Impact | Barclays Bank PLC have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Baylor College of Medicine |
Organisation | Baylor College of Medicine |
Department | Department of Pediatrics |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We are developing novel sensing and imaging technologies for accurate dietary intake measurements. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our partner has provided invaluable inputs and advice on the approach taken in developing the new sensing/imaging technologies for dietary intake assessment. |
Impact | This partnership has led to a major project funded by the Gates Foundation |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Boston University |
Organisation | Boston University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We are developing novel sensing and imaging technologies for dietary intake assessment. |
Collaborator Contribution | Boston University has provided invaluable inputs on the technology development and also provide training/instructions on dietary intake assessments |
Impact | This collaboration has led to a major project funded by the Gates Foundation. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | British Broadcasting Corporation Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Department | BBC Research & Development |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | BBC have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Combination of BBC in-house research work and collaboration with research groups across Europe to address challenges of security, privacy & trust * Offering resources to provide governance, guidance and real challenges with routes to impact for the research themes and strands of PETRAS * 24 days of senior R&D engineers/scientists, inc technical meeting attendance and advisory boards and prep work and follow up activity for 3 year project duration (£1k per day) * Hosting academic staff in R&D labs and co-locating with academics in university research groups where relevant, to include peer supervision/engagement and prep work * Use of the BBC brand * Access to BBC clients for piloting/trials with output divisions eg Audio & Music; Vision; News * Access to BBC audiences for piloting/trials |
Impact | BBC have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | British Gas Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | British Gas |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | British Gas have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Active participation as members of an external 'advisory group' (£200,000) * Providing industry review on design ideas and where appropriate, evaluate any prototype * Hosting secondment of research staff from the Hub on campus under supervision from our experts in the field * Supporting projects in providing access to facilities where appropriate |
Impact | British Gas have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Cardiff University Airbus Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Analytics |
Organisation | Airbus Group |
Department | Airbus Operations |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Burnap is the director of the Centre, Anthi is a core IoT researcher within the Centre. Burnap leads IoT research for Airbus in the context of Industrial IoT |
Collaborator Contribution | Airbus are providing support to build an industrial IoT testbed as part of the IoTDepends project - this will underpin the research co-produced by Cardiff University and Airbus |
Impact | £760k research project funded by Endeavr Wales to study intrusion detection and probabilistic modeling of cyber attacks on Industry Control Systems (SCADA); £1.8m EPSRC research project studying the impact of IoT and sensors embedded in products of the future to support automated "Chatty Factories" of the Future; Journal article in Computers and Security (Malware Classification and Machine Learning); Journal article in IEEE Computer (Goal Oriented Risk Modeling); Journal article research has been transitioned into enhanced products and services within Airbus (Malware Classification -> SOC, Risk Modeling -> Risk consulting business) |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Cardiff University support for SecCNIoT Demonstrator |
Organisation | Cardiff University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of demonstrator for studying the anatomy of cyber security attacks in converged IoT / ICS environments. Collection of data traces for use in goal orientated risk assessment framework. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into experimental design of demonstrator to support goal oriented risk assessment. |
Impact | National demonstrator of attack anatomy (Feb 2019) |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Case study with Cisco USA |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Conducted case study interviews and workshops with 4 major IoT cyber risk centres in Cisco USA. The case study research reported here had two objectives. The first objective was to present an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging IoT advancements in the field of Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. Including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive computing. The second objective was to capture the best practices regarding cyber security in industry, and to provoke a debate among practitioners and academics by offering a new theoretical model for assessing the cyber risk from IoT and I4.0. |
Collaborator Contribution | Cisco provided expertise, intellectual input, including access to data, equipment and facilities in the Cisco data centre in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. We reported the results of a qualitative case study with Cisco that correlates academic literature with five I4.0 cyber trends, seven cyber risk frameworks and two cyber risk models. We applied the grounded theory approach. |
Impact | Conference paper - accepted for presentation: 28-29 March 2018. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Church of England |
Organisation | Church of England |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | CEDE has created a digital installation including a Font of Solace and Digital Prayer candles for the Parish Church of St Peter de Beauvoir in Hackney. Anonymous prayers submitted by members of the congregation are projected onto the floor of the church to promote empathy within the church community. Focus groups held with community groups within the parish demonstrated a very positive response to the installation and consequently we have recently partnered with a second church (The Church of St Michael and All Angels) in Cumbria to allow the trial of remote digital empathy between an urban and a rural parish. This second church was selected for this work as, aside from the significant distance between the two locations (approx. 370km), there is a significant contrast between the typically younger and relatively static community at St Peter's, and the typically older community of St Michael's which is extended in the summer months by many tourists to the Lake District who visit the church. Of particular interest will be the extent to which it is possible to develop a 'community spirit' between the two churches, the extent to which the two communities are able to feel empathetic towards the other, and the potential for the development of pro-social and pro-community behaviours between the two communities. |
Collaborator Contribution | The partners provided full access to the church and the local community, allowing a research in the wild approach and direct participation with often hard to reach groups (such as the over 60 Afro Caribbean Group). |
Impact | Papers, as per the publications section of this form, Television and press coverage as well as a one day symposium. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Cisco International Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Cisco International Limited |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Cisco International Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Alignment to various other Cisco industrial research projects to provide significant mutual benefit and value in kind to PETRAS * Providing business and technical input to workshops through the 3 year period (estimated £115,500 of man hours) * Provide access to meeting and event space (estimated value of £30,000) |
Impact | Cisco International Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | CityVerve (Cisco) |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The IoT Observatory which is a lynchpin framework within PEDASI for cybersecurity research in IoT domains will provide a concrete testbed to enable key IoT initiatives to co-operate within a common environment. |
Collaborator Contribution | - Access to data and metadata collected by different agencies and made available through the CityVerve Platform of Platforms - Access to Cisco Kinetic platform (if required) to experiment and integrate the privacy preserving services. - Technical support and assistance for integration of functionalities between the two platforms. |
Impact | Partnership commenced on July 1, 2018. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Coelition, Fujitsu - Workshops |
Organisation | Fujitsu |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Created private online forum to meet with Coelition experts and distinguished engineers. |
Collaborator Contribution | Learning about Coelition, Fujitsu needs and acquired in-house-know-how. Received feedback on the existing research through the online forum. |
Impact | Feedback on the current research related to Artificial Intelligence in IoT and Industry 4.0 |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration on Formal Techniques to Arms Verification |
Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | AWE plc and their Arms Verification Group. He have transferred capabilities from formal methods, notably SMT solvers, to the domain of modelling arms inspection and verification scenarios. This has given the Arms Verification Group at AWE new insights and modelling & analysis tools that were also applied on a case study based on the UK-Norway 2018 Initiative. This collaboration is ongoing; AWE is very interested in high-assurance modelling and optimization for decision support, and we are working on tools that can provide such support. |
Collaborator Contribution | AWE hosted some meetings with stakeholders within AWE but also within government agencies. AWE also supplied crucial test data for our approaches, and influenced the writing of the paper that was published at INMM 2017, the flagship venue for the nuclear materials industry. |
Impact | Software at https://bitbucket.org/pjbeaumont/inmm2016/ Disciplines involved are nuclear policy, nuclear physics, decision sciences, mathematical optimization, social science |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Collaboration with BT on evaluation of Hypercat implementation |
Organisation | BT Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The project team has evaluated BT's implementation of Hypercat in the context of providing finer grading security for their catalogue entries by using the EPBIM/Handle infrastructure. |
Collaborator Contribution | BR provided access to their implementation of Hypercat complete with full documentation. |
Impact | not yet available |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with Everledger |
Organisation | Everledger |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We are working together with everledger to advance uptake of distributed ledger technologies and increase understanding of security issues. |
Collaborator Contribution | The partners have contributed staff time to the project and this has resulted in both a paper being submitted and published, and an international research proposal being submitted |
Impact | Research paper has been published and a research proposal prepared and submitted. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with IoTSF |
Organisation | IoT Security Foundation |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Collaboration to review two new reference architectures published by the IoTSF: ToT Security Architecture and Policy for the Enterprise - a Hub Based Approach; IoT Security Architecture and Policy for the Home - a Hub Based Approach |
Collaborator Contribution | Reviewed documentation and discussed alignment with other PETRAS initiatives to help position the work |
Impact | https://www.iotsecurityfoundation.org/best-practice-guidelines/ |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with L3-TRL |
Organisation | L3 TRL Technology |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Working together with L3-TRL new approaches for authentication based upon behavioural metrics were developed. |
Collaborator Contribution | We proposed new methods which were critiqued and improved by L3-TRL |
Impact | Two papers have been submitted for publication |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Collaboration with Optimization Group and Chemical Engineers |
Organisation | Imperial College London |
Department | Department of Chemistry |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have began a collaboration with colleagues in our department who specialize in mathematical programming and its applications in engineering, chemical engineering and bioengineering in particular. This is very promising as we provide the expertise and know-how of recent advanced in automated reasoning, symbolic computation, and formal verification, whereas they (Notably Dr Ruth Misener) are leading international experts on MINLP programming and its application to challenging optimization problems in engineering. |
Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide test cases in the form of MINLP models and benchmarks, domain knowledge from chemical engineering, and consult on where to public in their communities. They also plan to write papers with us about the synergy potential of formal methods and mathematical programming. We also hope to look at threat models in engineering, within an IoT context and apply our new optimization techniques there. |
Impact | It is too early for listing any outputs on this. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with network from University of Oxford and XAIN company |
Organisation | XAIN AG |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We assisted in the experimental work and mathematical modelling for governed blockchain technology, including its threat modelling. We co-created a new variant of consensus algorithm that may consume much less energy than Proof of Work. This has been integrated and tested in a pilot project with XAIN/Porsche (which also contains other work that we did not contribute to). A good overview of this is seen in the following clip: https://youtu.be/KvyF78RTj18 |
Collaborator Contribution | The contributions by the Oxford team were in the machine learning aspects for anomaly detection of blockchain systems, and in the company XAIN by transferring such knowledge into practice through a real-world demonstrator. |
Impact | We publishes a "Yellow Paper" at https://www.xain.io/pdf/XAIN_Yellow_Paper.pdf and this is interdisciplinary in that it covers EEE, Computer Science, and Automotive. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with people at US NIST |
Organisation | National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We have begun to collaborate with people at NIST on Trustworthiness of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). This also involves someone from Intel and a researcher from a prominent US Business School (Saint Joseph's University). We held a workshop in December at Imperial in which the framework that NIST has proposed for this issue was discussed and feedback given. Our contributions were in assisting the modelling and development of knowledge representation and reasoning about the trustworthiness of CPS. We also mean to extend that to quantitative reasoning, where we locally will bring needed expertise. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have lead the strategic direction of this work, which is very much about impact in several verticals. |
Impact | A first key output of this is a paper to be presented at the IET PETRAS conference on Living in the Internet of Things: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/57662 |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with the NCSC Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-physical Systems (RITICS) |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Department | Department of Computer Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Memberships of RITICS Advisory Board. Collaboration on new tasks on IoT in Control activity. |
Collaborator Contribution | Membership of the PETRAS Steering Group. Collaboration on new tasks on IoT in Control. |
Impact | This is a relatively new collaboration, so there are no outputs or outcomes yet. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with the University of Lugano |
Organisation | University of Italian Switzerland |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | RAs (Mateusz Mikusz and Peter Shaw) spent effort on creating Tacita iOS client and Tacita Cloud Services, enabled USI to utilise the existing applications to deploy a similar display personalisation system |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise and guidance |
Impact | Publications and dissemination of research outputs to the community. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborative research with ICL, Cisco and CRACS |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Worked with the PETRAS - CRACS project on a research related to the integration of cyber security frameworks, models and approaches |
Collaborator Contribution | Feedback and participation in the research related to the integration of cyber security frameworks, models and approaches |
Impact | Conference paper submitted and accepted - PETRAS_IoT conference in March: Conference paper title: 'Integration of Cyber Security Frameworks, Models and Approaches for Building Design Principles for the Internet-of-Things in Industry 4.0' co-authored by Cisco Research Centre, CRACS project and the ICL (HEV technical leads). |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaborative research with ICL, Cisco and CRACS |
Organisation | Imperial College London |
Department | Department of Computing |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Worked with the PETRAS - CRACS project on a research related to the integration of cyber security frameworks, models and approaches |
Collaborator Contribution | Feedback and participation in the research related to the integration of cyber security frameworks, models and approaches |
Impact | Conference paper submitted and accepted - PETRAS_IoT conference in March: Conference paper title: 'Integration of Cyber Security Frameworks, Models and Approaches for Building Design Principles for the Internet-of-Things in Industry 4.0' co-authored by Cisco Research Centre, CRACS project and the ICL (HEV technical leads). |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaborative research with ICL, Cisco and CRACS |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Department of Computer Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Worked with the PETRAS - CRACS project on a research related to the integration of cyber security frameworks, models and approaches |
Collaborator Contribution | Feedback and participation in the research related to the integration of cyber security frameworks, models and approaches |
Impact | Conference paper submitted and accepted - PETRAS_IoT conference in March: Conference paper title: 'Integration of Cyber Security Frameworks, Models and Approaches for Building Design Principles for the Internet-of-Things in Industry 4.0' co-authored by Cisco Research Centre, CRACS project and the ICL (HEV technical leads). |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Concentra Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hug |
Organisation | Concentra Analytics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Concentra have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting seconded research resource from the Centre to work alongside our Research & Development teams. We will provide desk space and associated office environments for comleting relevant project work. It is our suggestion that secondees should work with our teams for a three month secondmnet and that we have no more than two secondees in a year period. * Providing industry placements for graduates on your research programmes * Attending workshops and providing insight and advise to these workshops on specific themes that are relant to us and have been agreed between ourselves as being mutually beneficial * Join steering groups in areas of special interest * Looking at ways and means to exploit the research in a commercial environment * Secondees - 2 days per week o oversight, guidance, training, management provided by Concentra staff at cost of £500 per day * 2 secondees per year for c12 weeks = 2 x 12 x £550 x 3 years * Overheads/Equipment - £1,500 in kit and overheads (reused) * Senior involvement in Privcay by Design, Data Analysis - 1 day per quarter for three years, assuming half day workshop and follow up (£550 p/d cost) |
Impact | Concentra have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Concentra Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Research Hub |
Organisation | Concentra Analytics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Concentra have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of the project. To date this has not been deployed but will be as the project progresses. |
Collaborator Contribution | 16 July 2015 Dear Carsten Letter of support for the proposed Centre for Internet of Things Thank you for asking Concentra to participate in this partnership. We would very much like to be considered for this unique opportunity. What we do By way of introduction, Concentra helps transform how organisations manage and use their data to get the analytics edge. Our business, analytics and technology experts craft intelligent and intuitive information tools to solve business problems. Whether bespoke solutions or our own products, our tools are game-changing; they give people the power to speed up analysis, drive new insight and hone operations, every day. We are on a mission to find new and better ways for organisations to drive performance and sustain competitive advantage through analytics. Why we are excited about this opportunity Concentra is excited to become an active partner of this high profile and important Research Hub. The bringing together of world class, cross disciplinary research leadership combined with a close collaboration with industry represents a unique opportunity to address high value industry needs, from inception, through feasibility study and pilot to commercial adoption. Concentra are today actively marketing products we have developed in Supply Chain, addressing multiple sectors including Health Care, FMCG and Construction, where innovation in building the IoT value chain will deliver huge commercial and societal value. We have in depth understanding of many of the challenges to be faced in exploiting IoT, having made long term investment into innovation for the security and governance of sensitive PII data spanning multiple legal jurisdictions. We have significant expertise in privacy and security best practice including Privacy by Design principles in solution design. We are in active partnership with Warwick University Operations and Supply Chain and the Cyber Security Centre, with whom we have made a joint bid for InnovateUK funding, a partnership which we value highly. It is our belief that the proposed collaboration represents a highly credible partnership to realise the goals of the ComPaTrIoTS Research Hub. How we can contribute Our investment in to the project would be on the following basis: Project Partner Letter of Support Concentra letter of support 1. Hosting seconded research resource from the Centre to work alongside our Research & Development teams. We will provide desk space and associated office environments for completing relevant project work. It is our suggestion that secondees should work with our teams for a 3 month secondment and that we have no more than 2 secondees in a year period 2. Providing industry placements for graduates on your research programs 3. Attending workshops and providing insight and advice to these workshops on specific themes that are relevant to us and have been agreed between ourselves as being mutually beneficial 4. Join Steering Groups in areas of special interest 5. Looking at ways and means to exploit the research in a commercial environment In Kind Contribution Secondees 2 day per week of oversight, guidance, training, management provided by Concentra staff at cost of £500 per day. 2 secondees per year for c12 weeks = 2 x 12 x £550 x 3 yrs £39,600k Overheads / Equipment £1500 in kit and overheads (reused) £3000k Senior involvement in Privacy by Design, Data Analytics 1 day per quarter for 3 years assuming half day workshop and follow up (£550 p/d cost) £6600k Total £49,200 (£49k) We are really excited about your invitation and very much hope to be able to join your team on this project. Yours sincerely Chris Barrett |
Impact | Concentra have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of the project. To date this has not been deployed but will be as the project progresses. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Consortium Partner (Balfour Beatty) |
Organisation | Balfour Beatty |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Research and development of innovative digital technologies to support intelligent transport infrastructure surface water management and understanding of trust issues around the IoT . |
Collaborator Contribution | Domain expertise in the management of highways infrastructure surface water, and specifically the maintenance of road-side gully networks in the UK. Furthermore, Baflour have provided research teams access to real user systems and processes to evaluate and trial novel ideas and applications. |
Impact | Organisational change in the maintenance of highways infrastructure through the deployment of new decision-support tools and IoT hub technology. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Consortium partner (Carillion) |
Organisation | Carillion |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Research and development of future digital technologies to support sustainable highways infrastructure maintenance and enhance trusted relationships between key stakeholders and adoption of IoT hub technologies. |
Collaborator Contribution | Domain specific knowledge related to highways maintenance and access to real user systems and processes to evaluate novel ideas and applications. |
Impact | Changes in highways maintenance working practice and strategic decision-making through the deployment of innovative products and services |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Consortium partner (In Touch) |
Organisation | In Touch Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Through our understanding and development of novel trust models in the context of highways maintenance we have transferred expert knowledge to help inform In Touch Ltd products and services developed to enhance levels of trust in the highways sector. Specifically, we have shown In Touch Ltd how to utilise several requirements analysis methods that include the use of ethnographic study, innovation workshops and user-centred design approaches. More generally, In Touch Ltd has benefitted from our innovation processes, software development skills (e.g. rapid prototyping), communication plans, technical management and knowledge transfer support through student placements. |
Collaborator Contribution | We have benefitted from domain specific knowledge from In Touch Ltd and access to real user systems and processes to evaluate novel ideas and applications. |
Impact | Innovative digital technologies to support highways maintenance activities. |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | Costain Letter of Support for the PETRAS National IoT Research Hub |
Organisation | Costain Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Costain have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | Dear Prof Carsten Maple Letter of Support This letter is drawn to endorse and support Warwick University et. Al. for the 'Cyber Security Call' and the proposed Centre for the Internet of Things directed by Professor Jeremy Watson. Costain Limited is a leading Engineering Solutions provider, operating in Highways, Rail, Water, Oil and Gas, Power and Nuclear Process. Costain Limited strategically supports Research and Development and our relationship with Warwick University is evident of this commitment. Our relationship with Warwick University is proving to be very productive and dynamic after our recent successes with Innovate UK and our research initiatives; hence Costain is keen to be involved, working closely with Warwick University in their proposal to establish a proposed multidisciplinary Centre for the Internet of Things. As Costain develops as a business, we recognise the importance of data security in a technology economy and having the skills to manage this effectively to protect national infrastructure is significantly important for industry to understand grater and embrace. Costain would like to pledge its full support to Warwick University and would like to make the following contributions: · Highways R&D Lead Mohammed Shah to manage the relationship between all parties · Hosting of meeting at our various offices UK-Wide · Supplying research data · Giving access to research facilities or equipment · Become an external member of an "advisory group" · Attend multidisciplinary workshops and "sandpits" run by the Centre around certain themes and challenges · Hosting secondments of research staff and students from the Centre (short/long term) · Secondment of staff from the company into the Centre (short/long term) · Contributing in-kind expertise and advice through regular (e.g. annual) bilateral meetings with Centre investigators/leaders Due to the close working relationship with Warwick, the importance of this research for our customers and the economy we are investing significantly to support this application. Based on the activities above we see our commitment as a partner to be very active in the Centre. We are pledging £200,000 / year in-kind over the next 3 year which will total of £600,000 over the first phase of the Centres research focus. This commitment is based on a £1bn of our turnover having significant data requirements associated with assets of national importance and the stringent requirements UK Government is placing on this topic. We look forward to working closely with Warwick University and it's consortium on this very welcomed and timely R&D initiative. Yours sincerely Tim Embley Group Innovation and R&D Manager |
Impact | Costain have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Costain support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | Costain Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. Provide expertise and knowledge to ensure relevance of programme. Access to facilities. Expert support (eg Blockchain and OBU programming). Access to research and networks. |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Costain support for SecCNIoT Demonstrator |
Organisation | Costain Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of demonstrator for studying the anatomy of cyber security attacks in converged IoT / ICS environments |
Collaborator Contribution | Industry input into use case, experimental design and validity of approach for demonstrator |
Impact | National demonstrator of attack anatomy (Feb 2019) |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Cube Controls Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Cube Controls Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Cube Controls Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Can support with existing knowledge of building controls & to bridge gap between extracting real time building management data and exporting it to the big data research arena for this project * Providing open protocol controls technologies and wireless environmental sensing equipment to be installed within a tect building(s) (£8,100) * 10 days per year of consultancy/engineering time over a three (3) year period (£25,650) |
Impact | Cube Controls Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Cube Controls support for SecCNIoT Demonstrator |
Organisation | Cube Controls Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of demonstrator for studying the anatomy of cyber security attacks in converged IoT / ICS environments |
Collaborator Contribution | Industry input into use case, experimental design and validity of approach for demonstrator |
Impact | National demonstrator of attack anatomy (Feb 2019) |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | DSTL Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | DSTL have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Advisory board contriution at 5% FTE of a DSTL "Level 9" £15,000 pa * Technical Partnering with researchers at 15% FTE per year of a DSTL "Level 6" £10,000 pa * Access to subject matter experts at DSTL or related institutions * Hosting an annual workshop on DSTL premises - difficult to qnaitify this but I'm sure yu can reference it to a commercial offereing Overall contriution towards this consortium over three years is hence in the order of £75k plus the workshops. |
Impact | DSTL have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Datahub (BT)- PEDASI Collaboration |
Organisation | BT Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The IoT Observatory which is a lynchpin framework within PEDASI for cybersecurity research in IoT domains will provide a concrete testbed to enable key IoT initiatives to co-operate within a common environment. |
Collaborator Contribution | • Support relating to, and access to existing Hypercat based metadata catalogues. • Technical consultancy and discussions on access control models based on BT's implementation experiences in MK:Smart, CityVerve etc. • Technical support and assistance in integrating selected functionalities between loT Observatory platform and BT's CityVerve datahub. |
Impact | Partnership commenced on July 1, 2018 |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Dementia UK |
Organisation | Dementia UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The research team discussed the latest development in pervasive sensing technologies with the charity and explained the potential use of such technologies for patients with dementia |
Collaborator Contribution | The Director Dr Karen Harrison-Dening explained the challenges in dementia care and explained the need for patient inputs in designing a effective system for dementia care. |
Impact | This collaboration has helped the team to better understand the challenges faced by the nurses and healthcare staffs in dementia care. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Development of Reference Architecture and Security guidelines for IoT in the Home |
Organisation | Building Research Establishment |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Developing a Reference Architecture and Security guidelines for IoT in the Home. Academic and industrial practice research. Lead development on all research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Support for developing a Reference Architecture and Security guidelines for IoT in the Home. Shaping of the report, reviewing the report and promoting the report. Access to labs and equipment. Testing equipment and evaluating template |
Impact | Reference Architecture and Security guidelines for IoT in the Home |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Development of Reference Architecture and Security guidelines for IoT in the Home |
Organisation | IoT Security Foundation |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Support for developing a Reference Architecture and Security guidelines for IoT in the Home through 3 members actively participating. |
Collaborator Contribution | Shaping of the report, reviewing the report and promoting the report. |
Impact | Reference Architecture and Guidelines document. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Digital Catapult collaboration |
Organisation | Digital Catapult |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Undertaking the key research investigation leading to the drafting of 3 papers. |
Collaborator Contribution | Direct support of £10,000 to support Lucie Burgess of Helix Innovations to contribute to the project. Access to facilities and refreshments. Administrative and promotion support. |
Impact | Development of 3 papers |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Engagement with Ordnance Survey |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Development of two documents for cyber security testing in the UK. A state of the Art review and a Roadmap for development. |
Collaborator Contribution | Cash contribution to supporting one University Research and engagement of consultant to contribute to the project. Support for the development of the two documents for cyber security testing in the UK. Support gained through access to facilities and contribution of staff assist in writing and support. |
Impact | two documents for cyber security testing in the UK. A state of the Art review and a Roadmap for development. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | FOSI |
Organisation | Family Online Safety Institute |
Country | United States |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We have created a promotional video that they can use. We have shared our research findings to date with them, including our publication. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have participated in one knowledge exchange project workshop, and will be participating in another in the next couple of weeks. They have assisted with messaging in press about the project and with scripting an animated video for our project. They have promoted the project via their media connections. They will soon be taking part in key informant interviews. |
Impact | Disciplines: Computing, Design, Education. Outputs: animated project video, project deliverable. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GEOSEC project with Ordnance Survey |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The GEOSEC project as collaboration between university of Surrey and Ordnance Survey started on 1/10/2016 for the duration of 3 years. The objective of the GEOSEC project is to analyse and model security and privacy weaknesses of existing techniques for location, place and geography information delivery (e.g. personal data disclosure, PII) and enabling trust in location based services (e.g. by proximity). Also the project aims to propose secure and privacy preserving solutions to enable geographic information about locations and places to be a trusted and integral part of the IoT information infrastructure. |
Collaborator Contribution | Ordnance survey has a financial contribution around £360K to this project |
Impact | not yet. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Google iBeacon Award |
Organisation | |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Use of donated iBeacons for Tales of the Park and Talking Orwell Project |
Collaborator Contribution | Donation of iBeacons |
Impact | Tales of the Park / Talking Orwell deployments |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Google-PEDASI Collaboration |
Organisation | |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The IoT Observatory which is a lynchpin framework within PEDASI for cybersecurity research in IoT domains will provide a concrete testbed to enable key IoT initiatives to co-operate within a common environment. |
Collaborator Contribution | Google Cloud Platform would support unlimited hosting and storage services to PEDASI platform |
Impact | Partnership commenced on July 1, 2018. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Greater London Authority Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Greater London Authority (GLA) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Greater London Authority have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | *Offering access to our London Data Store initiative (2015 Open Data Institute Award for Open Data Publishing) and support from the City Data Team at City Hall * Providing expert (industry, academic and public sector) polcy input from the Smart London Board * Establishing how our role in the Smart Park at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic can be brought to bear on this research hub To illustrate this commitment we are able to offer in-kind contribution amounting to £50,000 - this takes into account time and use of the London Datastore. This figure could increase depending on our success pursuing other existing IoT research projects, such as those run by the European Commission and Innovate UK |
Impact | Greater London Authority have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | HEALTH-I CityVerve |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We are working on design of health based use case to illustrate the common concerns of Manchester and Southampton City and how it can be addressed within the scope of the HEALTH-I project |
Collaborator Contribution | A set of 35use cases have been shared that are key to the Manchester city |
Impact | - The Asthma use case from the list of use-cases has been identified that can feed the HEALTH-I project with a good use case. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Her Majesty's Government Communications |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | HMGCC have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Providing one man-month of engineering support per annum for the three year duration. This equates to an approximate labour cost of £20,000 |
Impact | HMGCC have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Holst Centre Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Holst Centre and Phillips, Holland |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Holst Centre have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Travel costs for attending workshops & meetings of the consortium (10,000) * Internet of Things sensor data exchange projects & other research projects within consortium (£200,000) * Hosting secondments of members of the consortium (£50,000) * Consortia meetings hosting at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven (£10,000) * Laboratory usage, material usage, prototypes (£10,000) |
Impact | Holst Centre have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Home Office Science Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Home Office |
Department | Home Office Scientific Development Branch |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Home Office Science have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Contribution of expertise from relevant officials across the Deartment to workshops and bi-lateral meetings, in order to identify the issues faced by the Home Office and help share the Hub's research agenda * Facilitation of links to front line operational expertise and requirements, user trials, and supplying research data were appropriate. This could potentially include taking work forward through the Security Innovation and Demonstration Centre * Membership of the external Advisory Group by the Director of Science, Engineering & Technology * Use of meeting rooms at the Home Office (2 Marsham Street, London) and the Centre for Applied Science and Technology (St Albans or Horsham) * In-kind contribution value at least £25,000 per annum (£75,000 over three years) |
Impact | Home Office Science have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Hybrid Engagement Architecture Layer for Trusted Human-centric IoT |
Organisation | Southampton City Council |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We are engaging with the Southampton City Council as user partner to collaborate on the behavioural and data sharing components of our proposed research work on modeling human factors in IoT and for cybersecurity over distributed stores. It will especially focus on developing distributed personal data stores and crowdsourcing methods and human computation methods to enable the local citizens to actively participate in the smart city IoT ecosystem to improve trust, privacy, security, and data sharing within critical IoT infrastructure. |
Collaborator Contribution | At the initial stage, the Southampton city council is expected to facilitate the research by providing research datasets on citizen behavior and data sharing activities within different agencies in a smart city. It would also provide the user test beds for testing the human computation models developed as part of research work by the project |
Impact | -With the initial support of the Southampton City council as user-partners, funding has been requested through the PETRAS internal strategic funds call. With the support from the PETRAS hub we expect to do a comparative study on user behavior and adoption of smart devices and technologies across different cities in the UK |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ICS and Critical Infrastructure Security Modelling and Simulation |
Organisation | Department of Transport |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | As part of the ALIoTT project, the team at UCL was responsible for planning, execution and funding of the stakeholder engagement workshop aimed at a two-fold objectives of; (i) developing a deeper understanding of what changes in CIP modelling and simulation could mean to the modelling and simulation community in terms of IoT adoption in CIs, changing security risk landscape, and design considerations for building credible simulators and testbeds. (ii) identifying the disparity in stakeholder perspectives related to the perceived directions that research in critical infrastructure protection approaches and open-source simulators could take for future developments in the light of evolving technology trends like IoT, and the policy interventions that can drive future research development directions. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Department of Transport was contributed in providing the venue for hosting the stakeholder engagement workshop. The cyber security unit of DfT helped in the planning, connection with industrial stakeholders, and the review of workshop report. |
Impact | 1. A joint report of findings from the stakeholder workshop. The collaborations involved a multi-disciplinary team covering: technical cyber security researchers, policy-makers, industry managers |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | InTouch Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | In Touch Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | InTouch Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Meet with project partners and participate in workshops to help inform the development of detailed understanding the requirements for future IoT events * Provide a conduit to our major multi-national customers in order to facilitate information exchange between the hub and these customers * Allow the partners access to our data feeds in the SmartStreets IoT hub becomes unavailable we will help the partners identify an alternative facility * Provide a series of case studies based on our experience of supporting trusted data that can be used to inform detailed project work in the proposed hub * Assist the project with dissemination by providing guidance on likely interested parties * Serve on the hub's advisory board if requested. The overall cost to the company of this is estimated at £20,000. |
Impact | InTouch Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | InTouch/SmartWater platform deployments across both rail and highways domains |
Organisation | InTouch Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Through research as part of the RoadMaPP project we have provided InTouch Ltd with new understanding of the potential vulnerabilities and security threats introduced through the deployment of an emerging cyber-physical drainage management system (SmartWater). |
Collaborator Contribution | InTouch Ltd have provided access to a real-world cyber-physical drainage management system deployed both within the rail and highways domains. |
Impact | Journal paper - "IoT Enabled Highways Maintenance: Towards an Understanding of Emerging Cyber Security Threats" |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Institute for Sustainability Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Institute for Sustainability |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Institute for Sustainability have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Offer real world test beds and the ability for researchers to enegage with end-users and future markets for IoT technologies and solutions (in kind value £1500000) |
Impact | Institute for Sustainability have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Institute of Advanced Study / Senate House |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Department | Institute of Advanced Study |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The research team deployed the 'Talking Orwell' installation at Senate House for the duration of the 'Being Human' festival |
Collaborator Contribution | Senate House provided space, publicity, and administrative support to the project. |
Impact | Talking Orwell installation. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Intel Corporation Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Intel Corporation |
Department | Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Intel Corporation have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Meet with project partners and participate in workshops to help inform the development of detailed understanding the requirements for future IoT events * Provide a conduit to our major multi-national customers in order to facilitate information exchange between the hub and these customers * Allow the partners access to our data feeds in the SmartStreets IoT hub becomes unavailable we will help the partners identify an alternative facility * Provide a series of case studies based on our experience of supporting trusted data that can be used to inform detailed project work in the proposed hub * Assist the project with dissemination by providing guidance on likely interested parties * Serve on the hub's advisory board if requested. The overall cost to the company of this is estimated at £20,000. |
Impact | Intel Corporation have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Intel support of PETRAS and Cross Grant Collaboration |
Organisation | Intel Corporation |
Department | Intel Ireland |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Working closely with Intel on the deployment of IoT technology devices, frequent joint meetings and workshops around the Smart Park part of PETRAS. |
Collaborator Contribution | Work on deployment design, IoT device selection and refinement. |
Impact | Outputs being developed for deployment at QEOP early summer 2017. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | InterDigital Europe Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | InterDigital |
Department | InterDigital Europe |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | InterDigital Europe have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Providing advisory information or steering the work * Attending regular meetings * Providing feedback and inputs into reports and publications These controibutions represent a total of nearly three persons-months over three years, which correspons to anin-kind support of nearly £25,000 |
Impact | InterDigital Europe have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | IoTUK contribution to the PETRAS/IoTUK colaboration |
Organisation | Digital Catapult |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The IoTUK programme which is funded by the Digital Catapult Centre has worked closely with PETRAS both as its Umbrella organisation and partner. This has resulted in a number of contributions to the media and events provision of PETRAS which it has carried out with IoTUK. This contribution has totalled £108,590 |
Collaborator Contribution | • Digital Catapult payment to IET for event space, catering etc: £21,774 • Digital Catapult spend with Innovision, our production partner for the Living in the IoT conference at the IET: £48,000 • Production budget for the creation of the PETRAS Block Exchange video assets (Edinburgh University): £15,858 • Production budget for the creation of the PETRAS Design Thinking project (Lancaster Uni) video assets: £19,942 • Production budget for the creation of the PETRAS BitBarrista project (Edinburgh Uni): £1,668 • Production budget for the creation of the PETRAS Semiot Project: £1,348.55 |
Impact | IoTUK / IET / PETRAS - Living in the Internet of Things Joint conference and a number of media outputs which are broken down in the contributions section. In total more than 20 media outputs in the form of reports, infographics or videos have been produced and which can be found on the IoTUK website (https://iotuk.org.uk/?s=petras) |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Joining OeRC - HEV and IAM with Cardiff University - Goal oriented approach: short visiting fellowship at Cardiff University |
Organisation | Airbus Group |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scoping workshops on joining the Cardiff goal oriented approach with the OeRC impact assessment model. Discussions are in process for a joint journal paper on the economic impact of cyber risk: development of a goal-oriented approach for determining cyber risk from shared network data in distributed interdependent systems, tested on a case study with Cisco and Airbus. |
Collaborator Contribution | Work with new user partner: Airbus. Access to SCADA testbed at Airbus in Newport, South Wales. |
Impact | Scoping workshops |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Joining OeRC - HEV and IAM with Cardiff University - Goal oriented approach: short visiting fellowship at Cardiff University |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Scoping workshops on joining the Cardiff goal oriented approach with the OeRC impact assessment model. Discussions are in process for a joint journal paper on the economic impact of cyber risk: development of a goal-oriented approach for determining cyber risk from shared network data in distributed interdependent systems, tested on a case study with Cisco and Airbus. |
Collaborator Contribution | Work with new user partner: Airbus. Access to SCADA testbed at Airbus in Newport, South Wales. |
Impact | Scoping workshops |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Joining OeRC - HEV and IAM with Cardiff University - Goal oriented approach: short visiting fellowship at Cardiff University |
Organisation | Cardiff University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scoping workshops on joining the Cardiff goal oriented approach with the OeRC impact assessment model. Discussions are in process for a joint journal paper on the economic impact of cyber risk: development of a goal-oriented approach for determining cyber risk from shared network data in distributed interdependent systems, tested on a case study with Cisco and Airbus. |
Collaborator Contribution | Work with new user partner: Airbus. Access to SCADA testbed at Airbus in Newport, South Wales. |
Impact | Scoping workshops |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Joining OeRC, HEV and IAM with Southampton University, HEALTH-I - short visiting fellowship at Southampton University: |
Organisation | CISCO Systems |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Related to IAM: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model. Investigated interactions between different stakeholders, devices and data belonging to various services/components in a smart city and derive new metrics of social and economic risk impact assessment criteria |
Collaborator Contribution | Related to HELATH-I: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model to establish economic and social context of modelling human factors in IoT. Further, this would include modelling device vulnerabilities, privacy threats for data sharing across different agencies in a smart city. |
Impact | Draft conference/journal paper in progress |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Joining OeRC, HEV and IAM with Southampton University, HEALTH-I - short visiting fellowship at Southampton University: |
Organisation | CityVerve |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Related to IAM: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model. Investigated interactions between different stakeholders, devices and data belonging to various services/components in a smart city and derive new metrics of social and economic risk impact assessment criteria |
Collaborator Contribution | Related to HELATH-I: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model to establish economic and social context of modelling human factors in IoT. Further, this would include modelling device vulnerabilities, privacy threats for data sharing across different agencies in a smart city. |
Impact | Draft conference/journal paper in progress |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Joining OeRC, HEV and IAM with Southampton University, HEALTH-I - short visiting fellowship at Southampton University: |
Organisation | Fujitsu |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Related to IAM: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model. Investigated interactions between different stakeholders, devices and data belonging to various services/components in a smart city and derive new metrics of social and economic risk impact assessment criteria |
Collaborator Contribution | Related to HELATH-I: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model to establish economic and social context of modelling human factors in IoT. Further, this would include modelling device vulnerabilities, privacy threats for data sharing across different agencies in a smart city. |
Impact | Draft conference/journal paper in progress |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Joining OeRC, HEV and IAM with Southampton University, HEALTH-I - short visiting fellowship at Southampton University: |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Related to IAM: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model. Investigated interactions between different stakeholders, devices and data belonging to various services/components in a smart city and derive new metrics of social and economic risk impact assessment criteria |
Collaborator Contribution | Related to HELATH-I: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model to establish economic and social context of modelling human factors in IoT. Further, this would include modelling device vulnerabilities, privacy threats for data sharing across different agencies in a smart city. |
Impact | Draft conference/journal paper in progress |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Joining OeRC, HEV and IAM with Southampton University, HEALTH-I - short visiting fellowship at Southampton University: |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Related to IAM: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model. Investigated interactions between different stakeholders, devices and data belonging to various services/components in a smart city and derive new metrics of social and economic risk impact assessment criteria |
Collaborator Contribution | Related to HELATH-I: Adapting and advancing the Cisco cyber risk theoretical model to establish economic and social context of modelling human factors in IoT. Further, this would include modelling device vulnerabilities, privacy threats for data sharing across different agencies in a smart city. |
Impact | Draft conference/journal paper in progress |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | L3-TRL Letter of Support for the PETRAS National IoT Research Hub |
Organisation | L3 TRL Technology |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | L3-TRL have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | To Tim Watson L-3 TRL is an agile UK-based technology company, which designs and delivers advanced electronic systems for the protection of people, infrastructure and assets. We operate in the fields of electronic warfare and cyber security, creating scalable solutions by investing in innovation and delivering excellence. Working in partnership with defence and civil organisations, we respond to their requirements, delivering precisely the right product at the right time, helping to counter evolving and emerging threats worldwide. The research to be conducted in the Central Hub for Advanced Research in IoT (CHARIoT) supports work currently being conducted as part of the innovation programme within L-3 TRL. This work aligns with our strategic model, supporting our entry into the marketplace as a supplier of innovative and trusted solutions for loT Cyber Security and Secure Cloud Infrastructure. L-3 TRL are a critical enabler for the adoption of IoT security and greatly wish to support the CHARIoT in order to meet the challenges of: (i) Implementing safe and secure applications on resource-constrained lightweight loT devices, including compromise detection and the application of appropriate compromise responses, (ii) Securing the requisite enterprise management services hosted by cloud providers, L-3 TRL has a history of investing in strategic collaborations with major security vendors and with world leading Universities. We develop market leading products and research in the field of cyber security and high grade/high bandwidth cryptographic solutions. Our technical ability and market reputation underpins the objectives of this proposal for a Central Hub for Advanced Research in IoT. We are currently funding research into mobile cyber security at Warwick University with a final value expected to be circa £100,000. The proposed research collaboration with the CHARIoT consortium will work alongside our in-house teams to support and extend our loT and cloud security service investigations. As part of the proposed collaboration with the CHARIoT consortium, L-3 TRL offers staff time for consultancy, guest lecturing and research collaboration from our leading area and product experts including: · Paul Yates, Security Consultant who is a subject matter expert in the area of cloud security · James Pyke, Assistant Chief Engineer for Cyber Products · Steve Mason, Chief Technical Officer, who leads our cyber security innovation research · A further one Engineer who will support the activities in this work TRL Technology As part of this support, we expect to be contributing advice through regular bilateral meetings with CHARIoT leaders/investigators. We estimate the total value of this in-kind contribution to be approximately £90,000 in addition to the currently committed value of £100,000. L-3 TRL expects the results of this research to augment their own defence and commercially positioned work, contributing to the essential analysis required in the fields of IoT and Cloud Security in order to support the projected speed of growth, and adoption of this technology. Whilst L-3 TRL are still at the very early stages of our own research, I am confident that this proposed partnership would benefit both parties as well as producing significant ground breaking work in this essential field. Tim Hadfield Director of Programmes & NPI National Security |
Impact | L3-TRL have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Lancaster City Council Deployment (Salt Ayre Leisure Centre) Partnership |
Organisation | Lancaster City Council |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Installation and support of the system deployment. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to Salt Ayre Leisure centre and support for the deployment of e-Campus. |
Impact | Active deployment of the e-campus system. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Lloyd's Risk Report |
Organisation | Lloyds Bank |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Our team has been commissioned by the Lloyd's Risk Insight team to prepare a report of the emerging risk related to the Internet of Things. |
Collaborator Contribution | In addition to providing the financial funding, Lloyd's are hosting two research workshops to support our integration of insurance underwriter perspectives to our research, as well as providing substantive feedback on multiple iterations of the report. |
Impact | No outputs yet; expect the report to be delivered in mid-2018. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | MASS Consultants Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | MASS Consultants Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | MASS Consultants Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting meetings at the company or use of event space * Giving access to research facilities or equipment * Providing research support into work packages * Providing cybe security and vulnerability training * Membership of an external "advisory group" * Attending multidisciplinary workshops and "sandpits" rub by the Hub around certain Themes and Challenges (the idea is that the sandpits will be a mechanism for co-designing and co-producing to generate new project ideas and to understand the difficulties you face and allocating research resouces) * Hosting secondments of research staff and students from the Hub * Secondment of staff from the company into the Hub * Contributing expertise and advise through bilateral meetings with Hub investigators/leaders * Support to projects aligned with the Hub that are being worked on (e.g. sensors on highways). |
Impact | MASS Consultants Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Meridian support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | Meridian Mobility UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Mevaluate Holding Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Mevaluate Holding Limited |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Mevaluate Holding Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | Wiling to collaborate with the Centre by committing to the following in-kind contributions, totalling £115,000 * Seconding the worldwide Ethics Committee, te committee includes international experts in ethics, law and policymaking, which supersive the development of Mevaluae reputational rating system to ensure that it is ethically resilient and consistent with different countries laws and regulations. the 5 members of the committee work 0.2 FTE and the committee meets regularly every two months. * In kind contribution for each year will be £30,000 for a total of £90,000 for 3 years * Support from our engineer team (including meetings and related logistics) for a test bed in kind contribution for a total of 6 months - worth £25,000 |
Impact | Mevaluate Holding Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Microsoft Azure and IoT Observatory |
Organisation | Microsoft Research |
Country | Global |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The IoT Observatory spans across the PETRAS themes of privacy, security, policy, trust, adoptability and acceptability. It aims to provide artefacts and tools for sharing IoT datasets on a large distributed scale to support innovation within and beyond the PETRAS academic and user-partners. The IoT Observatory project aims to identify and address infrastructural, technological and legal issues to that end, and will initiate the deployment of an infrastructure that will enable individuals or organisations to share IoT datasets. This activity work in synergy with existing initiatives within the Web Science and Internet Science communities. The project will build on the learnings from the Web Observatory project (supported by Microsoft Azure) and improvise on the challenges of real-time requirements of data analytics along with ensuring privacy and security of end-users, organizations and other stakeholders. The project will also initiate a number of activities for community engagement for the development of analytics and visualisations on those datasets across the PETRAS community. |
Collaborator Contribution | Through the engagement with Microsoft Azure team and using the 12 month trial period of Azure and IoT suite, the IoT observatory will explore mutual collaborations over analytics and sharing of IoT datasets (and streams) within the PETRAS community and install multiple instances of the IoT observatory within the hub describing a global network of IoT observatories for IoT research. This will have a number of domain specific applications including, healthcare, smart cities, risk analysis in critical infrastructures. IoT Observatory project will build on learnings of Web Observatory infrastructure which aimed at sharing Web data (also backed by MS Azure). |
Impact | The IoT Observatory team will identify a number of research (ethical, legal and technical) challenges in large scale data sharing and share these with the Azure team and the Azure team would engage continuously through use of IoT suite functionalities with the observatory team.This would lead to establishing various test nodes of Azure backed IoT Observatory nodes within and beyond PETRAS. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Microsoft Research Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Microsoft Research |
Country | Global |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Microsoft Research Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting of meetings or events at our 'Rise' events * Membership of an external "advisory group" * Attending multidiplinary workshops and"sandpits" run by the Hub around certain Themes and Challenges * Hosting secondments of research staff and students from the Hub (short/long term) * Contributing expertise and advice through regular (e.g. annual) bilateral meetings with Hub investigators/leaders * Total in-kind contribution valued at £20,000 over the duration of the sponsorship |
Impact | Microsoft Research Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | NEC Telecom MODUS Ltd Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | NEC Corporation |
Department | NEC Telecom MODUS Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | NEC Telecom MODUS Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Willing to attend project steering meertings and be part of the advisory board * in preparation of these meetings and at other times, happy to receive and review research outcomes and offer advice and steering tohelp with the refinement of the impact opportunity. Over the course of the project, and allowing time for review and preparation, this will represent a £80k investment from NEC * Depending on the outcomes of the research, also willing to consider collaborations around prototyping of the technologies, and oneM2M/3GPP standards contributions; the monetary value may be in order of £70k * As members of mVCE, will utilise that organisations offices for a wider engageent of UK Universities and Companies that may wish to attend any dissemination events the consortium intends to run during the course of the research |
Impact | NEC Telecom MODUS Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | NSPCC |
Organisation | National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We have created a promotional video that they can use. We have shared our research findings to date with them, including our publication. |
Collaborator Contribution | They have attended both of our Outreach Days (at their own expense). They have participated in one knowledge exchange project workshop, and will be participating in another in the next couple of weeks. They have assisted with messaging in press about the project and with scripting an animated video for our project. They have promoted the project via their media connections. They will soon be taking part in key informant interviews. |
Impact | Disciplines: Computing, Design, Education. Outputs: animated project video, project deliverable. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | NVIDIA |
Organisation | NVIDIA |
Country | Global |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We develop potential new algorithms for intelligent analysis of sensory data and new application for in-patient and out-patient care. |
Collaborator Contribution | The company has donated a GPU card for research and also gave a seminar to our students and post-doctoral researchers about the latest development of deep learning tools and IoT technologies. |
Impact | This partner enables knowledge transfers which helps our students and researchers to get access to the latest GPU and IoT hardware. On the other hand, our research may adopt the NVIDIA platform and develop novel applications in health and well being applications. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | National Crime Agency |
Organisation | National Crime Agency |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We are working with the National Crime Agency and the MET to organise a roundtable on tech abuse on the 19 of October. The roundtable will inform the development of a VAWG Digital Strategy as well as a STRA. Purpose of the roundtable The roundtable is specifically designed to inform the response to technology-enabled abuse and participants have been invited based on their expertise in research, advocacy and service provision around those experiencing technology based VAWG. This roundtable is being organised by the VAWG taskforce, with the kind support and assistance of UCL, as one of a number of events to inform the development of the VAWG STRA. We will be running other events with other participants (e.g. we have a roundtable with industry being organised with Tech UK in November). What is the STRA? The VAWG Strategic Threat and Risk Assessment (STRA) is an intelligence assessment of the overall threat from VAWG. Its purpose is to inform the national and local response to VAWG offending and to benchmark trends in both the nature of offending as well as the response of police and other partners. This approach is in line with that taken to other long standing national threat areas such as Counter Terrorism and Serious & Organised Crime included in the SPR. As this is the first STRA for VAWG it will be something of a baseline. The aim is for the STRA to be regularly reviewed and updated, probably on an annual basis. Police forces have already been asked to compile problem profiles of VAWG offending in their force areas covering issues such as the profile of victims, offenders, places, education and technology in offending. To help inform this baseline as we feel that it is vital for it to reflect as broad a range of views as possible. We really want to take advantage of the expertise and insight of those attending the workshop in technology enabled abuse and offending. Without an authoritative national picture of the problem it is difficult to articulate the need for dedicated resources and accountability across police forces and partners. The STRA will be published in the spring of 2023 and a version of the STRA will be made publicly available and distributed to partners. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise |
Impact | VAWG Strategic Threat and Risk Assessment (STRA) |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Nettitude Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Nettitude Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Nettitude Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting of meetings at the company or use of event space * Supplying research data * Giving access to research facilities or equipment * Membership of an external "advisory group" * Attending multi disciplinary workshops and "sandpits" run by the Hub around certain Themes and Challenges (the idea is that the sandpits will be a mechanism for co-designing and co-producing to generate new project ideas and to understand the difficulties you face and allocating research resources) * Hosting secondments of research staff and students from the Hub (short/long term) * Secondment of staff from the company into the Hub (short/long term) * Contributing expertise and advice through regular (e.g. annual) bilateral meetings with Hub investigators/leaders We consider the in-kind value to be equivalent of £10,000 p.a |
Impact | Nettitude Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Network Rail Telecommunications Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Network Rail Telecommunications have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | Assuming the programme develops in the way we expect it to and hence meet our needs, we are willing to offer support in terms of * a large scale industry led user-case * participation in periodic industry steering groups * providig access to our RailInnovation & Development Centres for carrying out testing in a representative rail environment. We estimate this represents a contribution of £50k over the three year programme duration * Should the research deliver outcomes that will enable Network Rail to improve the secure and reliable operation of our infrastructure monitoring system, we would consider adopting relevant outcomes for implementation. |
Impact | Network Rail Telecommunications have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Newman & Spurr Consultancy Limited (NSC) Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Newman & Spurr Consultancy Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Newman & Spurr Consultancy Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * We are able to offer to host appropriate meetings at our Camberley premises *Pleased to serve on an advisory group where, among other things, we could offer the perspective of a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) * Interested in the potential for short-term secondments of our staff into the Hub and/or hosting secondments of research staff to work at NSC, as we would view both of these as opportunities for mutually beneficial sharing of knowledge and experience Estimate the value of in-kind contribution as up to £25,000 in the first year of operation of he Hub |
Impact | Newman & Spurr Consultancy Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Nexor (Qonex) Letter of Support for the PETRAS National IoT Research Hub |
Organisation | Nexor Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Nexor (Qonex) have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | Dear Professor Watson Re: (proposed) Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things Hub I am pleased to confirm that Qonex, the consulting arm of Nexor, would be very happy to support your proposal to the above EPSRC funding call. Nexor provides trustworthy solutions that enable people and enterprises to use technology more productively and securely. We work in industrial sectors as well as national infrastructure, government and defence organisations where the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information systems is critical. In 2015 we set up Qonex to specifically focus applying Nexor's core expertise in providing trustworthy solutions to the emerging Internet of Things. Our focus is to enable organisations deploying the Internet of Things, understand the cyber security aspects of technology innovation, and to manage the associated risks. As this Internet of Things market evolves, we welcome collaborating more closely with the research hub to maintain our innovative edge by gaining a much better understanding of these areas as they develop. As an SME we cannot cover all the territory ourselves, and an association with research activities such as this provide us with valuable insight into where to prioritise our efforts. We anticipate our level of support to include attendance and contribution in workshops, sandpits and seminars as part of information sharing. We estimate our contribution in kind is to a commercial value of £18,000 over the three year period. We would also anticipate working with the university in funded R&D projects to solve specific challenges as they arise. Yours sincerely Colin Robbins Managing Consultant |
Impact | Nexor (Qonex) have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Nottingham University, Institute of Mental Health |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Department | Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The research team presented the work on pervasive sensing to Prof Tom Dening. |
Collaborator Contribution | Prof Tom Dening gave the team some new insight into dementia patient needs and his vision on the potential use of technologies in improving dementia care. |
Impact | The collaboration has helped the team to better understand the dementia patient needs and how the technology can help psychologists in diagnosis and care. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | O2 Telefonica - Laura Network |
Organisation | O2 Telefonica Europe plc |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Initial discussions with o2 on LP-WAN deployment. |
Collaborator Contribution | Providing access to the network. |
Impact | still ongoing |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | OS support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. Provide expertise and knowledge to ensure relevance of programme. Access to facilities. |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Ordnance Survey Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Ordnance Survey have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Support post-doc research with funding guaranteed for Jan-Mar 2016 (£30,000) and potential funding, remaining 33 months of project (330000) * Senior Management participation (workshop particitipation, contribution to project supervision through advice on geo-spatial data, expenses (in kind contribution value £45000) * OS Data (1 seat with 3yr license, OS Mastermap Topography, OS Mastermap ITN (road network), AddressBase, Geographic extent: Greater London, Lancaster, Oxford, Edinburgh) (in kind contribution value £171,544) * Working space & meeting facilities (in kind contribution value £216,544) |
Impact | Ordnance Survey have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Parsons Brinckerhoff Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Parsons Brinckerhoff |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Parsons Brinckerhoff Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Attendance at relevant multi-disciplinary workshops and "sandpits" run by the Hub to address specific themes and challenges * To illustrate this commitment we are able to offer in-kind contribution to the value of £12,000, this takes into account the initiatives noted and illustrates our support for the research hub |
Impact | Parsons Brinckerhoff Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Pinsent Masons Letter of Support for the PETRAS National IoT Research Hub |
Organisation | Pinsent Masons |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Pinsent Masons have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | 27 August 2015 Dear Sirs CYBERSECURITY AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS HUB We are writing to express our support for the cyber security and the internet of things hub. About Pinsent Masons Pinsent Masons is one of the largest law firms in the UK. We field more than 350 partners and 1500 lawyers with our largest presence in the UK but spread across 20 offices on 3 continents. We advise clients in the manufacturing sector and have an extensive understanding of these businesses and the industries within which they operate. Our work covers the full range of activities including matters pertinent for present purposes such as data protection, IP, product liability, connectivity, information technology etc. We would propose to support the consortium project from the UK. The importance of the internet of things The internet of things, the ability of machines to communicate with each other, has profound implications for almost all business sectors including manufacturing. It potentially disrupts traditional business models and supply chains; brings new risks as well as opportunities; and raises a range of legal complexities. These include: how to manage restructuring in response to the disruption to business models; how to protect IP; cyber security; data protection and getting the right contracts in place for new risks, liabilities and relationships. The internet of things enables manufacturers to gain more data about their operations, customers and markets. This then allows them to make efficiencies through more sophisticated distribution, better supply chains and improved operational effectiveness. These improvements are important to success in a highly competitive world and need to be embraced and managed through effective IT and data management. With consideration for our own objectives and interest we are very much interested in working with you supporting your research hub as it directly aligns with the issues our clients are facing. There is huge value in bringing together the proposed consortium in one structure to consider these issues. We have a long standing relationship with Warwick and have supported a number of research collaborations and joint seminars and initiatives. Pinsent Masons Proposed Support to the Project As well as supporting the project in concept, Pinsent Masons is keen to participate in a practical sense particular in relation to consideration of the data and security issues that may arise. Recognising cyber security as a pressing management issue we have invested already in investigating cyber security with our clients through surveys and assisting clients with cyber readiness and would be keen to bring these 'earnings to the hub. We would envisage our support would include:- - attending any 'advisory group' or workshop sessions to input in respect of early consideration of legal implications; - inputting into papers addressing legal and policy issues relevant to the project. Based on the attendance at relevant meetings and the preparation of specific research and discussion papers we would be prepared to contribute senior lawyer time of up to 250 hours over three years at a notional value of up to £90,000. Yours faithfully Pinsent Masons LLP |
Impact | Pinsent Masons have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Poplar HARCA Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Poplar HARCA |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Poplar HARCA have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | *Happy to help facilitate the IoT Hub by allowing the project consortium to run some of their randomised control trials designed to estabish the behaviourial response of potential adopters of smart plugs among the 9,000 household units under our management. * Our experienced and passionate community and technical staff will advise the project consortium in regard to resident engagement and help facilitate the vital process of relationship building with these 'potential adopters'. * Through bilateral meetings and ongoing communication with u investigators, Poplar HARCA will help build a positive perception of the project amongst staff and residents. Our in-kind estimation of £15,000 will create the necessary foundations for the collection of the required research data |
Impact | Poplar HARCA have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Privitar-PEDASI Collaboration |
Organisation | Privitar |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The IoT Observatory which is a lynchpin framework within PEDASI for cybersecurity research in IoT domains will provide a concrete testbed to enable key IoT initiatives to co-operate within a common environment. |
Collaborator Contribution | Privitar will contribute concrete support to PEDASI in the following ways: • Access to Privitar software for developers of the PEDASI platform • Technical and software architecture consulting, to collaborate in the design of the platform • Specialist data privacy consulting, to evaluate privacy risks and design appropriate protections |
Impact | Partnership commenced on July 1 |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Project Mercury |
Organisation | Tesco Plc |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The partnership has facilitated a lecture series to explore topics such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and data ethics; exploring both current and future applications of these technologies and the impacts that these could have on society. Alongside the lecture series, project participants had the opportunity to put their learnings into practice, through the research and development of three projects. The outputs of this were Deedit, Lens and Tess which were all displayed as part of the Edinburgh International Arts Festival at the specifically built Design Informatics Pavilion, Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpse of a Near Future, on Edinburgh's George Street. |
Collaborator Contribution | Through Project Mercury, Tesco Bank designers, software engineers, data scientists and programmers have worked in partnership with both students and lecturers from the University of Edinburgh's Design Informatics School. |
Impact | The outputs of this were Deedit, Lens and Tess which were all displayed as part of the Edinburgh International Arts Festival at the specifically built Design Informatics Pavilion, Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpse of a Near Future, on Edinburgh's George Street. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Proposal for documentary series on IoT with BBC Radio Wales |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Department | BBC Cymru Wales |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | As a consequence of a radio interview following the Mirai IoT attack in October 2016, I worked together with a producer from BBC Radio Wales to develop a proposal for a four part documentary series on the IoT. The proposal is currently under review at the BBC and we await the outcome. My contribution involved formulating the appropriate subject matter focus and writing the intellectual content of the proposal. If the project is successful, I will co-write it with the producer. |
Collaborator Contribution | Sonia Mathur (BBC) and I co-wrote the proposal. If successful, she will produce the documentary series. |
Impact | The key outcome at this stage is the production proposal. If successful, the outcome will be 4 x 20 minute radio documentaries which will engage with a range of PETRAS projects currently underway in order to better inform society about what the future of IoT means for them. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Purple Secure Systems Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Purple Secure Systems |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Purple Secure Systems have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Preferred method of contribution would e through attending multi-disciplinary workshops. The cost of this is estimated at £650/day. * Interested in hosting secondments of researh staff or enabling secondment of our staff into the proposed Hub. * Happy to host meetings in the Bristol area in our secure facility. |
Impact | Purple Secure Systems have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Qonex Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Qonex Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Qonex (The consulting arm of Nexor) have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | We anticipate our level of support to include: * attendance and contribution in workshops, sandpits and seminars as part of information sharing. We estimate our contribution in kind is to the commercial value of £18,000 over the three year period We also anticipate working with the university in funded R&D projects to solve specific challenges as they arise. |
Impact | Qonex (The consulting arm of Nexor) have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Raytheon Systems Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Raytheon Systems Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Raytheon Systems Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting of meetings at the company oruse of event space *Provision of research data * Access to research facilities or equipment * Membership of an external "advisory group" * Attending multidiplinary workshops and"sandpits" run by the Hun around certain Themes and Challenges (the idea is that the sandpts will be a mechanism for co-designing and co-producing to generate new project ideas and to understand the difficulties you face and alloating reearch resrouces) Please see the Call proposal for the theme areas* * Hosting secondments of research staff and students from th Hub (short/long term) *Secondment of staff from the company into the Hub (short/long term) * Contributing expertise and advice through regular (e.g. annual) bilateral meetings with Hub investigators/leaders) |
Impact | Raytheon Systems Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Re: Callsign support for the EPSRC call "Commitment to Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things Security". |
Organisation | Callsign Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Callsign have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses. |
Collaborator Contribution | 20th August, 2015 Dear Professor Maple, Re: Callsign support for the EPSRC call "Commitment to Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things Security". On behalf of Callsign, I would like to confirm full commitment and support for the establishment of a Research & Development (R&D) hub on privacy and trust in IoT. Callsign is a rapidly growing start up that is internationally recognised for its game-changing approach to digital identification. Formed in 2011, Callsign has received investment from major tech and professional services firms including Qualcomm, Deutsche Telekom and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Since its inception Callsign has placed major emphasis on continual R&D in the area of computer security, this is reflected in numerous international patents that have been filed and granted. The company currently employs 38 staff, which is growing on a weekly basis. The majority of staff are software engineers and mathematicians with expertise in the field of computer security and cryptography. Our head office is located in Shoreditch, London with other offices in Palo Alto, California as well as Manhattan and Binghamton, New York. Our commitment to high calibre research is evidenced by the relationships we have formed with State University of New York (SUNY) and the University of Warwick. An annual security hackathon has been created with the Cyber Security Group at the University of Warwick with the inaugural hackathon held in June of 2015; the winning project was focused on preserving security in IoT. The number of recent high-profile cybersecurity breaches has made securing the Internet of Things a major global priority. Callsign is investing heavily into the R&D of capabilities to help businesses achieve the appropriate levels of security in IoT. Of our R&D spend we will open up £150,000 to your research hub. Based upon this R&D it is anticipated that products will be developed that help businesses improve efficiency, reduce costs and enable improved management of security risks. Ultimately this will have a substantial positive impact on UK Plc. In addition to the direct opportunities and generation of economic wealth, the indirect benefits of the programme are expected to help position the UK as the centre of next generation cybersecurity capability. Yours Sincerely, Zia Hayat President & Chief Executive Officer Callsign Inc. |
Impact | Callsign have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Refuge |
Organisation | Refuge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Refuge is offering us their data on tech abuse plus access to their support service expertise. |
Collaborator Contribution | - Data - Expertise - Networks |
Impact | n/a/ |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Research Centre meeting between Design Informatics and BBC R&D |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The two R&D teams from The Centre for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh and R&D BBC, met in Media City to show and tell their respective research 'play books'. From Edinburgh: Prof. Chris Speed, Chair of Design Informatics, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Ewa Luger, Chancellors Fellow, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Prof. Burkhard Schafer, Professor of Computational Legal Theory, Director, SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Larissa Pschetz, Lecturer, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Dave Murray-Rust, Lecturer, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Susan Lechelt, Research Associate (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Pip Thornton, Research Associate (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Liam Upton, Marketing and Comms for Creative Informatics, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Nicola Osborne, Programme Manager, (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Michaela Turner, Business Development Manager, (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Evan Morgan, Senior Research Developer, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Chris Elsden, Research Associate (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art* Dr. Michael Smyth, Co-Director Creative Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University Dr. Ingi Helgason, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University Prof.Chris Speed: presenting an overview of Design Informatics & Creative Informatics Ewa: Data, privacy and ethics Dave Murray-Rust: Social computing and data viz Larissa Pschetz: Interaction design for decentralised networks |
Collaborator Contribution | From the BBC: Natasha Westland (Intelligible ML tools) Max Leonard (BBC Box/Databox - working with Re Jones) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-06-bbc-box-personal-data-privacy Alex Nelson , on behalf of Lianne Kerlin (Human Values) Libby Miller and Tim Cowlishaw (Tellybox prototypes, Better Radio Experiences, A Better Internet...) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/public-service-internet https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2018-10-artificial-intelligence-archive-television-bbc4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/responsible-machine-learning https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-01-tellybox-content-discovery-video-watch Matt Brooks (Object-based Media) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/object-based-media-toolkit https://storyplayer.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/experience/click1000 Alia Sheikh (360/VR) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-08-explore-the-edinburgh-festivals-using-360-video-and-webvr https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/edinburgh360 James Gibson (5G Augmented Reality Roman Baths demo) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-02-5g-mobile-augmented-reality-bath |
Impact | TeenTech workshop was a direct outcome, Further work on Values and value is ongoing. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Royal Bank of Scotland with the PETRAS |
Organisation | Royal Bank of Scotland |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The Smart Contracting in Public Spaces project is located within the Ambient Environments Constellation, and sets out to better understand the value constellations that occur between the stakeholders who inhabit and move through public urban environments. Working with the Royal Bank of Scotland's Open Experience (OX) team who deliver innovation and design thinking to banking products and services, and the RBS Innovation Engineering team who develop advanced technical platforms to support services, the research team will develop user-centred solutions to support secure, easy to use prototypes for value transactions public spaces. |
Collaborator Contribution | We will use design methods to explore user adoption and accessibility of various forms of contract, informed by research in a range of technologies including centralised and distributed services. Throughout, we will work with the participants recruited from the public who regularly use parks and events such as festival, to design and prototype platforms of exchange that emerge from participatory workshops. By working closely with these groups, we examine whether distributed ledger technologies are relevant platforms to offer trust and security between complex networks of consumers and vendors, and anticipate the implication of the EU Payment Services Directive 2. The research will provide new insights for policy makers that complement the UK Treasury's preliminary consultation on Digital Currencies. |
Impact | Pschetz, L,. Tallyn, E., Gianni, R., Speed, C. (forthcoming) BitBarista: Exploring Perceptions of Data Transactions in the Internet of Things. In Proceedings of CHI '17 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | SGP Stream - Contribution in GCHQ-PETRAS Framework - Task 1 |
Organisation | Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Dr Irina Brass was PI of Deliverable 1.1 (Security Standards Landscape for Industrial IoT) of Task 1, GCHQ-PETRAS Framework Agreement. Deliverable 1.1 was an interdisciplinary project between UCL (Brass, Watson) and the Warwick Manufacturing Group (Boyes, Maple). |
Collaborator Contribution | Monetary. |
Impact | A confidential report on the Security Standards Landscape for Industrial IoT was produced in April 2018. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | SGP Stream - Membership of BSI IoT Privacy by Design Panel |
Organisation | British Standards Institute (BSI Group) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Dr Irina Brass, Co-I of SGP, was invited to join the BSI IoT Privacy by Design Panel. She is a member of the panel since May 2018. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to formal standards-making process. |
Impact | Contribution to the development of the ISO Privacy by Design standard. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | SGP Stream - Membership of BSI IoT-1 TC |
Organisation | British Standards Institute (BSI Group) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Irina Brass was appointed member of the BSI IoT-1 Technical Committee. This is an ongoing contribution, which involves working with other members to set the terms of reference of this technical committee, to promote the adoption of security, reliability, resilience and trust standards for IoT in the UK and to formulate the UK's contribution in ISO standardisation processes. |
Collaborator Contribution | Participation in standards development process. |
Impact | Contribution to BSI delegation for meeting of ISO International IoT committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41: contribution to terms of reference for Industrial IoT and IoT Trustworthiness ad hoc groups within ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 4 (Seoul, 28th May 2017) |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | SOLIT: Solidifying IoT |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Integrating inputs and research datasets obtained from the Ordnance Survey, the project will support the user-partners with agency/application specific datastores. These datastores will be made available through a data-sharing and mapping framework capable of mapping and integrating the sensor and spatio-temporal in a secure way while addressing the privacy concerns. Secure services will be delivered for data mapping and sharing that will be directly implementable in real-world settings of Ordnance Survey and its partners. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnering with Ordnance Survey we expect to obtain rich topographic datasets for a variety of contexts such as critical infrastructure design, urban planning, insurance risk and environment management. This is dataset will be critical to our project implementation and testing phase for making services ready for real-world settings. |
Impact | With the support and engagement of through initial discussions with the Ordnance Survey a research proposal for first internal strategic funds call with the PETRAS hub has been submitted. Obtaining the same we wish to support engagement activities between PETRAS hub partners and the Ordnance survey at large. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | SeMIoT |
Organisation | Grove IS |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The research team creates the algorithms the randomly allocate switch off events to the plugs. The team analyzes the responses from the participants and informs them about their performance. The team distributes rewards and monitors the use of the plugs consequently. The research team manages the distribution of the plugs, the resolution of technical faults and the replacement of equipment. The team also reports the results on the dedicated website : www.powbal.net and the PETRAS hub. |
Collaborator Contribution | Wi-fi Plug contributes with the delivery of the plugs, the support for their API and the discounts in accessing (polling) the IoT equipment. We have weekly meetings with the entire team (CEO and two senior engineers) and we have constant updates in cases of work that affects our experiments. Grove IS helps develop the Powbal platform. This allows us to schedule the switch-off events for hundreds of plugs, collect the status of each plug and store the data. The platform also calculates the reward points based on the performance of each individual (if they abide by the smart grid choices or not and the power consumed). The company supports the platform, hosts the server on its cloud infrastructure, stores the data for our work and provides support related to the performance of the platform. We also have a two-year Premium support (worth 9,600 GBP) for a 24/7 phone and email support, In version maintenance, feature enhancement support and version upgrade protection (See contract). Poplar Harca hosts the testbed for SeMIoT experiments, these are the residences that host the plugs we measure. Poplar provides us with access to their facilities, connection with impact champions (energy sensitive individuals to "spread the word" about our work), background information (addresses, names, etc) for the participants, management of the lists and the changes in their premises, etc. They also have organised bi weekly calls with us to provide updates about the progress of the experiments. An individual researcher (Alexandros Kosiaris) has helped us to produce the new version of the Powbal platform and contributed to the previous rounds of these experiments. Without his support on a weekly basis this platform would not have become a reality. |
Impact | Powbal platform currently under development :http://grove-cloud.groveis.com:8080/powbal/ The final platform will be under the www.powbal.net |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | SeMIoT |
Organisation | Poplar HARCA |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The research team creates the algorithms the randomly allocate switch off events to the plugs. The team analyzes the responses from the participants and informs them about their performance. The team distributes rewards and monitors the use of the plugs consequently. The research team manages the distribution of the plugs, the resolution of technical faults and the replacement of equipment. The team also reports the results on the dedicated website : www.powbal.net and the PETRAS hub. |
Collaborator Contribution | Wi-fi Plug contributes with the delivery of the plugs, the support for their API and the discounts in accessing (polling) the IoT equipment. We have weekly meetings with the entire team (CEO and two senior engineers) and we have constant updates in cases of work that affects our experiments. Grove IS helps develop the Powbal platform. This allows us to schedule the switch-off events for hundreds of plugs, collect the status of each plug and store the data. The platform also calculates the reward points based on the performance of each individual (if they abide by the smart grid choices or not and the power consumed). The company supports the platform, hosts the server on its cloud infrastructure, stores the data for our work and provides support related to the performance of the platform. We also have a two-year Premium support (worth 9,600 GBP) for a 24/7 phone and email support, In version maintenance, feature enhancement support and version upgrade protection (See contract). Poplar Harca hosts the testbed for SeMIoT experiments, these are the residences that host the plugs we measure. Poplar provides us with access to their facilities, connection with impact champions (energy sensitive individuals to "spread the word" about our work), background information (addresses, names, etc) for the participants, management of the lists and the changes in their premises, etc. They also have organised bi weekly calls with us to provide updates about the progress of the experiments. An individual researcher (Alexandros Kosiaris) has helped us to produce the new version of the Powbal platform and contributed to the previous rounds of these experiments. Without his support on a weekly basis this platform would not have become a reality. |
Impact | Powbal platform currently under development :http://grove-cloud.groveis.com:8080/powbal/ The final platform will be under the www.powbal.net |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Siemens Mobility Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Siemens AG |
Department | Siemens Mobility |
Country | Global |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Siemens Mobility have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Part of commitment to provide access to Siemens' resources, e.g. test facilities, contribute expertise by attending multidisciplinary workshops run by the hub around certain themes and challenges, and providing advise through regular meetings, making appropriate staff available throughout the duration of the hub |
Impact | Siemens Mobility have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Singapore Management University (SMU) Internship |
Organisation | Singapore Management University (SMU) |
Country | Singapore |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | RA (Mateusz Mikusz) effort spent at SMU in Singapore collaborating across pervasive display research projects. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise and guidance from world-class pervasive computing academic researchers and provision of office resources at SMU. |
Impact | Publications and dissemination of research outputs to the community. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Singapore Management University (SMU) Visit |
Organisation | Singapore Management University (SMU) |
Country | Singapore |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | RA (Mateusz Mikusz) effort spent at SMU in Singapore to continue the collaboration across pervasive display research projects. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise and guidance from world-class pervasive computing academic researchers and provision of office resources at SMU. |
Impact | Publications and dissemination of research outputs to the community (still ongoing). |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | SmartWater Deployments (Network Rail) |
Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Provision of IoT, data science and wireless communications expertise in the development of an experimental cyber-physical system to better inform the management of drainage infrastructure on the network. |
Collaborator Contribution | Providing access to network rail and management infrastructure |
Impact | Ongoing |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Sogeti Nederland B.V. Letter of Support for the PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Sogeti Nederland B.V. |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sogeti Nederland B.V. have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting of meetings at the company or use of event space (£20,000 for 3 years) (60000 * Giving access to research facilities/equipment (£25,000 for 3 years) (75000) * Membership of an external "advisory group" (10000) * Contributing expertise and advice through regular (e.g. annual) bilateral meetings with Hub investigators/leaders (£20,000 for 3 years) (60000) In-kind contributions totalling £205,000 |
Impact | Sogeti Nederland B.V. have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Surrey University Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Surrey |
Department | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Access to a pervasive public display platform and knowledge around the design of public display applications. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of IoT 'Egg' sensor devices. |
Impact | Collaboration with Surrey as part of PETRAS to develop an integrated sensor/display testbed. This has resulted in joint demonstrations and submission of a joint proposal to the PETRAS SRF call. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | TRL Letter of Support for the PETRAS Project |
Organisation | Transport Research Laboratory Ltd (TRL) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Transport Research Laboratory ltd (TRL) have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | Dear Professor Maple Re: TRL Statement of support for the Centre for Internet of Things TRL, the UK's Transport Research Laboratory, is an internationally recognised centre of excellence providing world-class research, consultancy and product testing, covering all aspects of transport. TRL was established in 1933 and since that time has continually made significant and lasting contributions to the development of safe, efficient and effective transport systems in the UK and beyond. We currently employ around 375 staff, most of whom are technical specialists in their field, with experts in engineering, statistics, software, psychology and human factors. TRL has access to a range of dedicated facilities including modelling & simulation software, advanced driving simulators, crash test rigs and test tracks. Our head office is in Crowthorne, Berkshire and the company has an annual turnover in excess of £30m. Satellite offices operate in Scotland, Wales, Dubai and Qatar. TRL operates the TRL Academy, an internal body with responsibility for maintaining the academic and research strengths upon which the organisation is founded. The Academy also manages our ongoing engagement with a range of universities and research organisations from the UK and beyond. We are well aware of the strong capabilities of the core university partners and have a number of research connections. We are, for example, working with Warwick on a "Towards autonomy - Smart and connected control" EPSRC project so are very pleased to be supporting this impressive initiative. TRL's business focuses on the generation and application of knowledge in the transport domain. We anticipate that IoT will be a major driver for innovation and development in transport over the next 10 years and will have a huge impact on the safety, efficiency and effectiveness of transport systems of all kinds. It is therefore vital that we understand these developments so that we remain relevant to our markets and customers and are better placed to generate and apply new knowledge in the area. We anticipate that IoT will impact particularly on connected and automated vehicles and on smart cities/smart infrastructure, all of which are important areas of work for us but also areas where the threat of cyber-crime is increasingly high-profile. We also need to understand how these aspects will be handled and will affect our clients and our work. Project Partner Letter of Support TFL Letter We intend to engage with and contribute to the Research Hub in a number of ways. Firstly, we would seek to participate as members of the External Advisory Group to help provide direction and governance to the programme. Secondly, we would help to develop the scope for projects undertaken within the Centre's programme based on our knowledge of the domain and future research requirements; this will include participation in workshops, "sandpits" and the like. Thirdly, depending on the scope of the research, we may be able to supply research data or access to specific facilities or equipment. Finally, we would hope to find suitable projects in which we can collaborate (e.g. by contribution of staff effort, secondment of staff to the centre, hosting of centre staff at TRL and co-supervising PhD students). It is difficult to define the precise financial value of our proposed in-kind support. For budgetary estimation purposes, we suggest maximum values for the four items described over a three year period as follows: 1. Participation in External Advisory Group activities £10k 2. Project scoping and advice £10k 3. Access to data and facilities £30k 4. Project collaboration £60k In conclusion, we are very pleased to be supporting this impressive initiative directed by Professor Jeremy Watson of UCL. The Centre for the Internet of Things can develop as a Research Hub of activity in this priority area for the UK and TRL can play an active role in supporting its development and operation. We highly commend this proposal and look forward to joining a first class team. Yours sincerely Professor Nick Reed Director, TRL Academy |
Impact | Transport Research Laboratory ltd (TRL) have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | TUV-SUD support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | TÜV SÜD Product Service |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. Provide expertise and knowledge to ensure relevance of programme. |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Tales of the Park |
Organisation | The London Legacy Development Corporation |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The research team deployed the 'Tales of the Park'/IoT Gnome technology in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park |
Collaborator Contribution | LLDC provided space, technical and project support, infrastructure, and partnership brokering support to the project. |
Impact | Tales of the Park IoT deployment |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Telefonica UK Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Telefonica S.A |
Department | Telefónica UK Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Telefonica UK Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Hosting of meetings at the company or use of event space * Supplying research data * Providing access to research facilities or equipment * Membership of an external "advisory group" * Attending multi discipliary workshops and "sandpits" run by the Centre around agreed Themes and Challenges * Contrbuting expertise and advise through regular meetings with Centre investigators/leaders * Current aligned projects, as relevant, including those listed above. Use of the 5G IC at Surrey as being very important for this bid. Welcome the opportunity for better access to Alan Turing Institute programme activities via leading University involvement * Bringing broader knowledge of Telecommunications standards & access to key bodies i.e. ETSI & GSM Association to facilitate wider trials and implementation. * In kind contribution value £2,000,000 |
Impact | Telefonica UK Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Telefonica support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | O2 Telefonica Europe plc |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. Provide expertise and knowledge to ensure relevance of programme. Provide technical support and access to facilities. |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Telefonica support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | O2 Telefonica Europe plc |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. Provide expertise and knowledge to ensure relevance of programme. Provide technical support and access to facilities. |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Thales UK Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Thales Group |
Department | Thales UK Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Thales UK Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Identification of scenarios, challenges and applications for the Hub's research topics * The opportunityfor researchers to spend time at our facilities interacting with relevant experts * Participation in advisory activities * Providing speakers for seminars or summer schools Anticipated value of in-kind involvement is approximately £20k over the 3 year period |
Impact | Thales UK Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | The Micro:bit Educational Foundation (MEF) |
Organisation | The Micro:bit Educational Foundation |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We have created a promotional video that they can use. We have shared our research findings to date with them, including our publication. |
Collaborator Contribution | MEF has provided us with micro:bits for all participants at our Outreach Days, for them to keep. They have assisted with messaging in press about the project and with scripting an animated video for our project. They have promoted the project via their media connections. They have provided us with the data they have about children's use of the micro:bit. They will soon be taking part in key informant interviews. |
Impact | Disciplines: Computing, Design, Education. Outputs: animated project video, project deliverable. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Toshiba Research Europe Limited Letter of Support for PETRAS Internet of Things Hub |
Organisation | Toshiba Research Europe Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Toshiba Research Europe Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * TRL's highy experienced research staff will be able to contribute their expertise to facilitate and review the research activity in the proposed Centre of IoT from the Industrial application point of view * TRL would like to offer a skillful researcher as a member of an indstrial advisory group for the effective operation and research of Centre * TRL will provide participation to seminar or a meeting by the project a couple of times a year * Happy to offer for a temporary placement for a short period of time to a research member from the project in order to bring a different view angle into a research uder a different and stimulating environment of TRL * Such contribution would be valued at about £15k per annum (£45,000) |
Impact | Toshiba Research Europe Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Transport Catapult |
Organisation | Transport Systems Catapult |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Working on this project for the first time with the Transport Systems Catapult. We have worked with members of the Catapult on creating a transport data hub. |
Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has been strengthened through the contributions of In Touch. |
Impact | None to be reported at this time. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Understanding Emergence of Cyber Physical Social Machines |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The concept of "social machines" is increasingly being used to characterize and describe various socio-cognitive spaces on the Web. Social machines imitate real-life processes and activities including human communication, opinion formation, interactions, and knowledge creation. Social machines continuously emerge and fade on the Web. The relationship between humans and machines has become further complicated by the scale of adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and devices. Scale, automation, continuous sensing, and actuation capabilities of these devices has added a third dimension to the relationship between humans and machines. As a result, new concerns of privacy and security are emerging. The divergent nature of these new socio-technical systems which we call Cyber Physical Social Machines (CPSMs) makes the problem non-trivial both at a systemic and conceptual level. In this study, we attempt to describe different exemplars of Cyber Physical Social Machines enabled and created by IoT devices. We describe the as-sociated challenges of security and privacy threats and emphasize the need for further studies in the proposed area of Cyber Physical Social Machines. |
Collaborator Contribution | Exchange of research ideas and joint discussions |
Impact | A joint research paper on Cyberphysical social machines has been submitted the 10th ACM WebSci Conference 2018. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Understanding Emergence of Cyber Physical Social Machines |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The concept of "social machines" is increasingly being used to characterize and describe various socio-cognitive spaces on the Web. Social machines imitate real-life processes and activities including human communication, opinion formation, interactions, and knowledge creation. Social machines continuously emerge and fade on the Web. The relationship between humans and machines has become further complicated by the scale of adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and devices. Scale, automation, continuous sensing, and actuation capabilities of these devices has added a third dimension to the relationship between humans and machines. As a result, new concerns of privacy and security are emerging. The divergent nature of these new socio-technical systems which we call Cyber Physical Social Machines (CPSMs) makes the problem non-trivial both at a systemic and conceptual level. In this study, we attempt to describe different exemplars of Cyber Physical Social Machines enabled and created by IoT devices. We describe the associated challenges of security and privacy threats and emphasize the need for further studies in the proposed area of Cyber Physical Social Machines. |
Collaborator Contribution | Exchange of research ideas and joint discussions |
Impact | A joint research paper on Cyberphysical social machines has been submitted the 10th ACM WebSci Conference 2018. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | University of Alabama |
Organisation | Duke University |
Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We are developing new sensing and imaging techniques which will be integrated with the system developed by the University of Alabama |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Alabama is developing new ambient and wearable camera systems for accurate dietary intake measurements. |
Impact | This collaboration has resulted into a major project funded by the Gates Foundation. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | University of Georgia |
Organisation | University of Georgia |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We are developing new sensing and imaging technologies for dietary intake assessment targeted for Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Georgia has provided invaluable inputs on the design of the technologies for LMIC, and also is going to conduct studies with our technologies in Ghana. |
Impact | This collaboration has led to a major project funded by the Gates Foundation |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | University of Jinan |
Organisation | Jinan University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have been working with the University of Jinan on health informatics and sensor informatics. Through our collaborations, we have provided inputs on mental health and EEG research to our partner. |
Collaborator Contribution | Through this collaboration, our partner has jointly work with us in developing new health informatics approaches and exchanged research ideas for mental health care technologies. |
Impact | This collaboration has resulted into a couple of joint research papers as well as a partnership grant from Newton fund |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | University of Lugano Sabbatical/Placement |
Organisation | University of Lugano |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | RA and academic effort contributing to the writing of two publications submitted to PerDis. |
Collaborator Contribution | Academic effort and office resources. |
Impact | Two joint papers with the University of Lugano based on PETRAS work on smart displays as part of the DiSCC project. This was enabled through two on-site visits. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | University of Ottawa Visiting Fellowship |
Organisation | University of Ottawa |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | • formally establishing a collaboration between CRAiEDL and PETRAS; • knowledge sharing between research projects, e.g., RED-AID (PETRAS); PATH (CRAiEDL); • establishing new, and widening existing, collaborations with uOttawa's students and researchers in the form of publication co-authorship, conference proposals, and joint research activities; • developing future inter-disciplinary projects; • attending regular CRAiEDL lab meetings; • attending uOttawa public engagement activities; • networking with researchers at uOttawa and other relevant organizations/industries in the domain of AI ethics and cybersecurity; |
Collaborator Contribution | • formally establishing a collaboration between CRAiEDL and PETRAS; • knowledge sharing between research projects, e.g., RED-AID (PETRAS); PATH (CRAiEDL); • establishing new, and widening existing, collaborations with uOttawa's students and researchers in the form of publication co-authorship, conference proposals, and joint research activities; • developing future inter-disciplinary projects; • attending regular CRAiEDL lab meetings; • attending uOttawa public engagement activities; • networking with researchers at uOttawa and other relevant organizations/industries in the domain of AI ethics and cybersecurity; |
Impact | Publication under peer-review: Robinson K-M, Novitzky P, Millar J: Review of Ethical and Responsible Assistive Technology Design and Development. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | University of Oxford |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Department of Computer Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | research and policy analysis, support for team, design and ethical approval process supervision |
Collaborator Contribution | research, analysis, running the research team, software development, ethical approval submission |
Impact | Conference presentations, workshop attendance, public talk, research publications will be reported once published |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | University of Pittsburgh |
Organisation | University of Pittsburgh |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | In this collaboration, we are developing novel image recognition methods and sensing capabilities for accurate dietary intake and which will be integrated with the wearable camera system developed by the University of Pittsburgh |
Collaborator Contribution | The University of Pittsburgh has been developing a new generation of camera based dietary intake sensors and also new image recognition techniques for accurate food intake measurements. |
Impact | This partnership has resulted into a major project supported by Gates Foundation, and a number of academic activities will be organised to facilitate the close collaboration between us and our partner. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | University of Southampton support for IoT-TraM |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development and deployment of four innovations for secure transport systems. Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advisory support shaping the programme of research. Review of programme. Provide expertise and knowledge to ensure relevance of programme. Access to networks |
Impact | Development of guidance document and public demonstrations. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Which? Letter of Support for the PETRAS project the Value of Personal Data |
Organisation | Which? |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Which? have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | Which? are keen to collaborate on the Value of Personal Data project, to understand consumer perspectives and explore ways in which consumer rights can be protected and safeguarded. They are happy to attend project meetings, workshops and share their knowledge and expertise. |
Impact | Which? have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Which? collaboration |
Organisation | Which? |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Collaboration on work concerning the value of personal data, specifically supporting the development of the Ctrl, Alt or Delete? report |
Collaborator Contribution | Development of a Which? report that informed PETRAS work. Also contribution to steering group. |
Impact | Control, Alt or Delete? The Future of Consumer Data |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ZTE (UK) Limited |
Organisation | ZTE Corpoation |
Country | China |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | ZTE (UK) Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Collaborator Contribution | * Sharing of useful and significant research data with the Centre's members arose from ZTE's in-house simulation. * Allocate sufficient man-hours and/or resources to attend any "advisory group", workshops and "sandpits" organised by the centre with the aim to co-producing, co-designing and gaining understanding of the problems faced by the project. ZTE is committed to contribute financially £20k per delegate p.a. pertinent to the actiities, where it is expected that 1-2 ZTE representatives will be devoted over the course of the project. * Giving access and providing research facilities or equipment (e.g. base stations, laptop computer, computing/simulation resources, etc) during the course of the project. ZTE plans to set aside estimated £10k p.a. to support this activity during the course of the project * Providing expertise and advise through regular (e.g. annual) bileratal meetings with Centre's members. The expected number of such meetings is 1-2 ZTE is committed to provide full financial cotribution to cover the attendance of those meetings. The estimated cost per conference is £2,500, covering conference registration fees, flights, accommodation and other subsistence. The expected number of such conferences/meetings is 2-3 per year and the expected number of publications is 3-4, where ZTEis committed to provide financial contribution of £5k to cover the cost of those publications * Providing other financial contributions in accordance with the progress and level of involvements during the course of the project In conclusion, ZTE fully support the motivation of submitting a proposal for £12.25m over 3 years to establish a multi-disciplinary Centre for Internet of Things lead by UCL, Imperial, Oxford, Warwick and Lancaster Universitiy |
Impact | ZTE (UK) Limited have written a letter of support committing their resources to the furtherance of this project. To date this has not been deployed but will as the project progresses |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | o2 Telefonica and Teoco |
Organisation | O2 Telefonica Europe plc |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Engagement with o2 Telefonica and Teoco in their role as network operator and analysis software provider respectively to investigate the potential use of collected datasets and data patterns to better understand the context in which mobile networks operate. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to large datasets for processing. |
Impact | collaboration in progress, no outputs yet. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | o2 Telefonica and Teoco |
Organisation | Teoco |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Engagement with o2 Telefonica and Teoco in their role as network operator and analysis software provider respectively to investigate the potential use of collected datasets and data patterns to better understand the context in which mobile networks operate. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to large datasets for processing. |
Impact | collaboration in progress, no outputs yet. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Title | Spectroscopy for blood perfusion monitoring |
Description | This medical device has been designed and developed by The Hamlyn Centre at Imperial College London. It measures different biological parameters like oxygen level in the skin. The ICL StO2 uses optical sensors to capture the small skin colour changes with blood flow. This technique is already been used in laboratories. The ICL StO2 is a much smaller and less costly alternative to current devices used in hospitals. It was developed to meet the needs of both patients and the clinical team for continuous follow up of tissue health. For reconstructive surgery, the ICL StO2 could help assessing whether or not additional surgery is needed according to the oxygen level measured on the targeted tissue. Other applications include continuous blood perfusion or blood flow monitoring (diabetes for example). |
Type | Management of Diseases and Conditions |
Current Stage Of Development | Early clinical assessment |
Year Development Stage Completed | 2016 |
Development Status | Under active development/distribution |
Clinical Trial? | Yes |
UKCRN/ISCTN Identifier | IRAS 195717 |
Impact | The outcome of the development has led to a number of conference and journal publications. It has also attracted much interests from clinical communities. |
Title | Car Chip Manufacturer experiments with technology from papers co-authored by Michael Huth |
Description | Infineon Technologies collaborated with XAIN AG on a Minimal Viable Product that uses blockchain technology to program more secure usage control of cars through consumer-facing apps and where the usage control is executed on an electronic control unit as used in cars, embedded devices that do hot have an operating system on them. We refer to the official press release by Infineon Technologies: https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/press/press-releases/2018/INFATV201810-005.html This work was influenced by the publications Leif-Nissen Lundbaek, Daniel Janes Beutel, Michael Huth, Stephen Jackson, Laurence Kirk, Robert Steiner, Proof of Kernel Work: a democratic low-energy consensus for distributed access-control protocols, Published on 8 August 2018 in the journal Royal Society Open Science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.180422 and the Yellow Paper on the FROST Access Control Language, e.g. available at https://xain.foundation/assets/downloads/xain-frost-yellow-paper.pdf. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | This resulted in XAIN AG and Infineon Technologies signing a 2-year partnership to explore the maturation of this technology into production readiness. |
Title | Creation of world's largest public display personalisation testbed |
Description | As part of DiSSC we created the world's largest public display personalisation composed of over 65 displays deployed across the Lancaster University campus and a number of software products including: Tacita Cloud Services, Tacita iOS Client and Tacita iLancaster Integration. |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | The display personalisation deployment at Lancaster was featured by Reuters and has been used by a number of EPSRC-funded projects including DiSSC, ReCoPS and PACTMAN. |
Title | Further development of ReCoPS demonstrator |
Description | The various situation detection and analysis mechanisms have been integrated into a new autonomous robotic sensing platform (i.e. a SLAM robot) to collect autonomously environment data (including radio environment and magnetic fingerprint). |
Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | The outcome is used as a collection tool for an advanced indoor localisation system. |
Title | Highways Maintenance IoT Data Hub |
Description | An open IoT data management platform based on CKAN to support the storage and distribution of highways maintenance datasets |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | This platform is enabling highways maintainer organisations to open and share typically silo'd datasets to facilitate new applications that will shape future highways management working practices. |
Title | Internet of Things (IoT) Testbed |
Description | IoT testbed with 10 well-known devices used for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis |
Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | This will support the development of attack vectors on IoT devices for the IoTDepends projects and others to follow |
Title | IoT Observatory |
Description | A datasets and analytic apps metadata catalogue that is built on top of multiple standards and widely adopted technologies such as Schema.org, DCAT, OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | Hosting multiple IoT related datasets/streams. |
URL | http://iotobservatory.io/ |
Title | IoT Window |
Description | The 'IoT Window' is a web platform for visualising IoT data across disparate stakeholder organisations, supporting greater levels of trust between collaborating stakeholders through a shared interactive view of the data. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | - Marketing and sales of InTouch's SmartWater solution. |
Title | IoT data fusion tool |
Description | The IoT data fusion tool allows the collection and initial analysis and fusion of data from different IoT sources. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | The tool has been integrated into a SLAM robot developed to collect RF and magnetic fingerprint information. |
Title | Magic Lense for the IoT Egg |
Description | The Magic Lense is a mobile phone app (Android) providing a simple yet comprehensive user interface to access the IoT data collected by IoT Eggs using the Bluetooth wireless interface. The app can also be used to program the IoT Egg, for example setting the sample rate or user feedback options (i.e. the IoT Egg also hosts gesture and ranging sensors). Note: the IoT Egg forms part of the IoT-smart display campus testbeds in Surrey and Lancaster, part of the DiSSC project within PETRAS. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | to this date the app is only used in experiments and exhibitions. |
Title | PEDASI |
Description | PEDASI is a cloud based data brokerage platform enabling the discovery and retrieval of diverse data sources from across the web to enable the provision of data driven services both for research and application development. The key features delivered within the MVP are: Searchable catalogue of supported data sources registered by data owners Extensible connector interface to external data sources that currently supports HyperCat and IoTUK Nation Database data sources Dataset discovery and access via a web interface or via an Applications API Queryable and extensible metadata associated with datasets Adoption of W3C PROV-DM specification to track and record dataset creation, update, and access within internal datastore Internally hosted support for read/write NoSQL datastores Functions as a reverse proxy to data sources, returning data from requests exactly as supplied by the data source Delivery of these features has provided PEDASI with the foundation to support future research into aspects such as Peer-to-Peer networking of multiple PEDASI instances within data trusts, delivering data quality indicators e.g. through analysis of metadata schema and aggregation of diverse data sources in secure environment. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Development to the MVP has demonstrated with the datasets identified that diverse data sources can be managed and retrieved through PEDASI to deliver a data driven web application. Development fo associated user policy has surfaced a number of questions around the managing of data quality e.g. metatdata standards, licensing and security which we intend to continue exploring in ongoing development beyond the current alpha version. |
URL | https://dev.iotobservatory.io/ |
Title | Porter Proxy for securly exposing database interfaces on the Web |
Description | With a large number of datasets now available through the Web, data-sharing ecosystems such as the IoT Observatory have emerged. The IoT Observatory provides an active decentralised ecosystem for datasets and applications based on a number IoT Observatory sites, each of which can run in a different administrative domain. On a IoT Observatory, users can publish and securely access datasets across domains via a harmonised API and reverse proxies for access control. However, that API provides an interface that is different from the underlying databases', and consequently, existing applications built on top of those database interfaces require major modification to work with the Web Observatory ecosystem. We propose a lightweight architecture called Porter Proxy to address these issues. Porter Proxy exposes the same interfaces as databases as requested by the users while enforcing access control. |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Enable applications to communicate with datasets shared in the IoT Observatory. |
Title | ReCoPS external demonstrator |
Description | Teh previous internal demonstartor of the ReCoPS sensing and information system has been further extended for use in public spaces, the deployment is now ready for installation in a bus exchange and in public busses. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | The bus company gaisn deeper insights into the loading of busses and the real time planning and demand management. |
Title | ReCoPS technology demonstrator |
Description | The demonstrator is a combination of hard and software set up to demonstrate the functionality of learning from situation analysis aboutthe context in public spaces such as the concourse or platform area of a railway station, the inside of a railway coach or of a bus. The demonstrator is a tool to investigate and test different learning and context analysis algorithms as well as the platform on which trials and deployments in a larger public space can be done. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | The demonstrator was shown during the PETRAS stakeholder workshop in November 2017, and is currently being extended for a larger deployment on the Surrey University Campus, with the ultimate aim of trialling it on a railway station managed by the RDG. |
Title | Tacita Cloud Services |
Description | cloud service to enable public display personalisation and other location-aware services in the context of DiSSC and PACTMAN |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | research outputs (papers and presentations), press releases (Reuters), collaborations (University of Lugano, Singapore) |
Title | Tacita iLancaster Integration |
Description | Integration of the Tacita display personalisation system into iLancaster (student app available to students, staff and visitors at Lancaster University) |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | enabled us to roll out the display personalisation software to a wider audience at Lancaster |
Title | Tacita iOS Client |
Description | The Tacita iOS client is a mobile application that allows users to subscribe to content that will be shown on pervasive displays in the space as they walk by - yet still protecting user privacy. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | This software is in daily use across the university campus at Lancaster and two partner institutions (University of Surrey and Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland). A number of conference publications are planned that build on top of this iOS client. |
Title | The POWBAL platform |
Description | The product connects wi-fi plugs connected to the internet and provides statistics for their use. There is an administrator dashboard available and a user-level dashboard. All data are collected and used for the experiments we conducted. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | We measured the impact of intermittent electricity supply during peak demand and found that we can achieve up to 10% reductions through a combination of incentives and norm-effects to the users. |
URL | https://iotuk.org.uk/semiot-securing-the-value-of-smart-metering/ |
Title | Yarely - Open Source Digital Signage Player for MacOS and Linux |
Description | Yarely is a modular, extensible digital signage player currently designed to run on macOS and Linux based systems. The player supports a wide range of content types (e.g. images, videos and web content) that are displayed according to a schedule and set of constraints specified by the user. The player also supports external triggering of content through web sockets to enable applications such as display personalisation. Yarely was originally developed for macOS only. In the context of PETRAS, we developed a Linux port of the software. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Deployed at the world's largest research public display test-bed at Lancaster University and made available in open source at https://github.com/opendisplays |
URL | https://github.com/opendisplays/yarely |
Description | "Connected Britain 2017" Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Jeremy was asked to speak at the "Connected Britain 2017" Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | "Cyber Security in Europe", Round Table, International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, Belgium. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A discussion on EU policy with respect to fostering security in IoT. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | "Cybersecurity risks in healthcare", Workshop on Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare - Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects, Brocher Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland (2017). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A public debate on the impact of IoT on security and healthcare. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | "Data Ethics and ICTs Companies in Mature Information Societies", TILTing Perspectives 2017: 'Regulating a connected world', Tilburg, Netherlands (2017). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A talk given at a major international conference on the ethical principles that should policies about IoT and digital technologies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | "Harnessing the Value of Data", Unlocking the Power of Data, TechUK, London, UK (2017). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A talk at an event organised by TechUK on the importance of including ethical consideration when developing and deploying digital technologies, e.g. IoT. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | "I miss you", design performance for Rematerialising the Digital: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, research symposium by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk Speed, C. 8 Feb 2023 "I miss you", design performance for Rematerialising the Digital: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, research symposium by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and the Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS) at the University of Edinburgh. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rematerialising-the-digital-an-interdisciplinary-dialogue-tickets-526... |
Description | 'Collider' event on Public Art - 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | [Second workshop of 2]. The workshop took the form of a 'collider' - a series of short talks and provocations which participants then respond to in a workshop activity. The subject related to public art - working towards a definition and examining pertinent issues in relation to artistic, logistical and political conceptions and practice. Participants came from a wide variety of areas - council planners, academics, artists, local government policy makers and provoked a stimulating discussion across disciplines. The workshop outcomes will contribute to the development of the 'ethnobot' and also lead to a report for the council to take forward with a wide variety of stakeholders. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | 'Collider' event on Public Art 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | [First workshop of two.] The workshop took the form of a 'collider' - a series of short talks and provocations which participants then respond to in a workshop activity. The subject related to public art - working towards a definition and examining pertinent issues in relation to artistic, logistical and political conceptions and practice. Participants came from a wide variety of areas - council planners, academics, artists, local government policy makers and provoked a stimulating discussion across disciplines. The workshop outcomes will contribute to the development of the 'ethnobot' and also lead to a report for the council to take forward with a wide variety of stakeholders. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | 'Tales of the Park: Exploring Security and the Internet of Things' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk about the Tales of the Park project given at Blackheath Scientific Society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | ) Invited talk: 'Apocalyptic Design: Exploring More Human Agency in Distributed Networks.' HCID Open Day "Design for Good" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk: 'Apocalyptic Design: Exploring More Human Agency in Distributed Networks.' HCID Open Day "Design for Good". 18th June. Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/chris-speed/ |
Description | - IoT in the Home Demonstrator showcase event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A software demonstration was given to academics and user partners involved in PETRAS, demonstrating cyberattacks that can be carried out against the pervasive deployment of IoT devices in the home. A home heating system, implemented in MATLAB was used to show how attacks can affect the thermal comfort of the house and/or cause an increase in energy consumption. The aim of the demo was to raise awareness related to the vulnerability of IoT devices in the home, and encourage developing new simulation tools to carry security studies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | 10th October 2016 - a ENISA workshop on smart cars |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple contributed to a working group for the European Agency ENISA to draft guidelines for securing future transport systems |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 12th October 2016 - Presentation at Research Strategies: Europe 2030 and the next Framework Programme |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple participated in an event that was designed to shape the future of research in cyber security. He gave a presentation on cyber security for connected and autonomous vehicles. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 13th Ops group meeting: project presentations session |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | To provide an overview of the work completed on cyberhygiene and the deliverables |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | 13th September 2016 - Meeting with Pinsent Masons |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussions on Pinsent Masons collaboration with PETRAS around the core themes of transport and mobility and privacy and trust |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 14th September 2016 - TRL data workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple attended a round table discussion around key challenges and current research in security and trust of intelligent transport systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 1st Bi-Annual PETRAS Members' Meeting Poster Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Poster presented describing different machine learning techniques used for improving authentication. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 2017-06-22: IEA DSM University: 'Peer-to-peer energy trading on blockchains' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This lecture was done for the International Energy Agency Demand Side Management University on 2017-06-22. The title was 'Peer-to-peer energy trading on blockchains: Assessing potential benefits and limitations for energy system stakeholders.' The aim was to engage with a global audience and both increase the dissemination of the work on the Internet of Energy Things grant, as well as draw attention to the work of our research group. This has now had over 6500 views - over ten times more than any other lecture in the DSM University's history. It's also the most viewed video on 'peer-to-peer energy trading' by an academic on YouTube. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcufQeaOK1U |
Description | 2017-09-13: Ofgem Roundtable on regulatory constraints and enablers of blockchain in the GB energy sector |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This workshop was a major component of one of the deliverables of the Internet of Energy Things project. This was instigated, organised and delivered by the team before the official start of the project. This included a keynote presentation I gave on 'Overview of Blockchain Technologies and Energy Applications'. This project established the project on the UK National, European and International stage with speakers attending from the US, EU and the UK. This has had significant flow-on benefits to the grant and the work of the group in this area - including subsequent work with BP. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/note-roundtable-regulatory-constraints-and-enabler... |
Description | 2017-11-03: CMS Blockchain in the Power Sector: 'Blockchain: Power, Politics and Profit' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk at the Energy Breakfast Seminar Series of the law firm CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP. Lecture on 'Blockchain in the Power Sector' This talk was disseminating the work of the Internet of Energy Things project, as well as building the legal relationship necessary to conduct further research on the policy and regulatory work on implementing peer-to-peer energy trading in the UK. There was substantial interest and subsequent follow-up by attendees. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://cms.law/en/GBR/Events/Blockchain-in-the-Power-Sector-London |
Description | 2017-11-28: MarketForce Smart Metering Forum: 'Smart meters plus blockchain for peer-to-peer energy trading'. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Description: Presentation at the leading UK smart metering forum. Presenting the work of the Internet of Energy Things to over 250 industry and government representatives. Has led to engagements with on of the major participants in the energy sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://new.marketforce.eu.com/future-of-utilities/event/smart-metering-forum/ |
Description | 2017-12-10: KAPSARC SEC Workshop: 'Megatrends in the electricity sector' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited talk to the KAPSARC Electricity Reform and Technological Disruption: What Options for Saudi Arabia? Workshop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Presentation on 'Megatrends in the electricity sector' focusing on peer-to-peer energy trading. This was a workshop between the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center and the Saudi Electricity Company focused on global changes and emerging technologies in the energy sector. The aim was to raise the international profile of the Internet of Energy Things project, disseminate its findings, and establish future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | 2018-02-06: UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies: 'Peer to Peer Energy' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Description: Presentation in Parliament to the leading cross-party grouping on energy studies. The aim was to disseminate the work of the Internet of Energy Things project, inform policy makers, and to develop contacts for future work on the policy and regulatory aspects of peer-to-peer energy trading. This generated a lot of interest and a subsequent article in Energy Focus. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | 2018-02-24: BEIS-Ofgem-HMG event: 'Blockchain Distributed Ledgers in the Energy Industry' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Description: Opening talk at the cross-government departmental workshop on 'Blockchain in the Energy System'. The keynote talk set the scene for the delegates for subsequent use-cases on possible applications of distributed ledgers in the energy sector in the UK. The aim was to disseminate the work of the Internet of Energy Things project to the policy making community. Considerable interest and follow-up conversations were generated. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | 2018-02-26: Crown Commercial Services: 'Peer to Peer trading for the public sector' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote speaker on 'Peer to Peer trading for the public sector' at the The Future of Utilities and Fuels event run by the Crown Commercial Service, Monday February 26th 2018, Civil Aviation Authority House, London. My aim was to disseminate the work of the Internet of Energy Things project and engage with the Crown Commercial Service as the largest purchaser of energy in the UK. Description of the event "Would you like to hear more about the future of Utilities and Fuels? Would you like the opportunity to contribute to our strategy? Then come along to our dedicated customer event and have your say. The event will provide organisations with an overview of our utilities and fuels strategy, detailing our latest developments, while also providing an opportunity for you to voice your requirements. The event will include; New initiatives and external speakers: Peer-to-Peer trading from Professor David Shipworth and Solar energy in the Public Sector from Daniel Green Action review - what have we done in response to our first Commodities Board? Quarterly update - news and progress in the last three months What the future holds - what does our long term utilities plan for the Public Sector look like? The event is open to all customers, whether you currently use CCS for utilities requirements or not." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | 20th July 2016 - Automated Vehicle Symposium in San Francisco |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple attended the symposium contributing to discussions on cyber security of autonomous vehicles. In San Francisco |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 24th-26th October 2016 - European Union Strategic Advice Mechanism Workshop on Secure Digital Identity for the digital single market in Europe |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple acted as a high level advisor to the European Commission Scientific Advice Mechanism. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 28th June 2016 - Cyber Security round table in Brussels |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple visited Brussels for a day and attended a series of meetings with policy makers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 2nd IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker to promote trustworthy cyber-physical systems including future AI and robotics for space and autonomous vehicles |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://hamlyn.doc.ic.ac.uk/uk-ras/events/2nd-annual-ieee-uk-ireland-ras-conference |
Description | 2nd PETRAS Bi-Annual URB Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This conference was convened to share the first results of the PETRAS project with the User Partner's community and other invitees interested in the PETRAS Hub research activity. The Streams and Projects have been progressing their work for the last few months and were keen to share the initial deliverables and outputs. The event also provided a privileged opportunity to contribute with feedback and recommendations that will inform the definition of the First Call for new projects, that will be issued later in the year where the expectation is to see a large participation of User Partners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.petrashub.org/ |
Description | 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 30 academic and industry professionals came together to discuss peer-reviewed publications on how the practice of software engineering can be moved to produce smart cyber-physical systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://d3s.mff.cuni.cz/conferences/sescps2017/ |
Description | 4D Special Interest Group on Digital Twin member |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Attending regular meetings, presentations, discussions on future collaboration, networking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
Description | 5G Security architecture overview and its support for services such as Internet of Vehicles and multicasting/broadcasting, seminar to IET ESSEX branch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Here is the talk abstract: Security and privacy provisioning have evolved considerably in mobile networks from GSM to 5G. However, 5G aims to provide connectivity for challenging applications such as ultra-reliable low latency (uRLLC) , one example here is the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) application, also the enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB): Defined as an extension to existing 4G broadband services, one example is live streaming (multicasting and broadcasting). The talk presented the current security practices in all the protocols stack layer. The 4G and 5G security architecture were presented and show an approach to better support the uRLLC and eMBB services. The security feature for IoV and live streaming also presented in more details to highlight the links with 4G/5G security. Finally the talk finished with final thoughts and looking into the future (6G) such as using Machine Learning to automate security and physical layer security |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://communities.theiet.org/communities/events/item/253/10/26941 |
Description | 5th April 2016 - Participation in the EPSRC workshop on remote sensing in challenging and extreme environments |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was to set the scope of an upcoming EPSRC call. As a result of comments made by Professor Maple regarding the importance of trustworthiness and the planned activity PETRAS security and trustworthiness featured strongly in the call. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 6th October 2016 - Microsoft Transform Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple gave a presentation on the importance of skills and current efforts to provide a suitable work force from higher education and research. 08.30 - 09.15 Registration and Refreshments 09.15 - 09.25 Opening remarks by Master of Ceremonies Andrew Spooner, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft 09.25 - 09.55 Andrew Blake - Alan Turing Institute 09.55 - 10.25 Carsten Maple - Chairman of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing 10.25 - 10.50 Robert Hogg & Rik Hepworth - Black Marble 10.50 - 11.10 Dan Marsh - International Alert 11.10 - 11.35 Break 11.35 - 11.55 Tech Demo - Martin Beeby - Technical Evangelist, Microsoft 11.55 - 12.25 Matthew Gould - Director General, Digital & Media Policy 12.30 - 13:00 Satya Nadella - CEO, Microsoft 13:00 - 13:05 Thanks and Wrap by MC 13.05 - 14.00 Lunch and Networking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 8. 'Stakeholders Roundtable on the Value of Heath Data', at European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) represents the pharmaceutical industry operating in Europe. Through its direct membership of 33 national associations and 40 leading pharmaceutical companies, EFPIA is the voice on the EU scene of 1,900 companies committed to researching, developing and bringing to patients new medicines that will improve health and the quality of life around the world. The roundtable was a key occasion to discsus key ethical issues on the use of health data collected via IoT devices for biomedical research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | 9th May 2016 - Cabinet Office Funded visit to the USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple visited the USA for a week primarily visiting universities but also engaging with civil servants and industry. Interactions included UC Berkeley, Stanford University, MIT and Harvard. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | A Reference Architecture for Academic Testbeds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of reference architecture guidelines to ACE members |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | A Trustworthy IoT? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Guest editorial article for IoT UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://iotuk.org.uk/a-trustworthy-iot/ |
Description | A blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This is the blog post on Value of Personal Data project to communicate our project agenda to general public, industry, third sector and governmental audiences beyond our project partners. The publication of the blog through IoT UK ensures it reaching out to national and international readers. Post publication, the author have been contacted about the article for commentaries and discussion of future collaboration by industry and media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://iotuk.org.uk/do-we-value-our-personal-data/ |
Description | A talk or presentation - Speed, Chris. Designing things with Spending Power, Invited talk, Reddit HQ, San Fransisco USA, March 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited talk by Chief Designer at Reddit to discuss and present new methods of designing with data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | A2/M2 Techfest 11-10-18 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Attendance and participation in the A2/M2 techfest discussing future direction for CAV research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | ABS Programme: FinTech by Design, Aisan Banking School. University of Edinburgh Business School. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Speed, C. 7th September 2022 ABS Programme: FinTech by Design, Aisan Banking School. University of Edinburgh Business School. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | AESIN Security Workstream FMEA in AI and ML |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Led a panel discussing Failure Analysis in AI and Machine learning as part of the AESIN Security Workstream conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | APPG on Smart Cities Event: "A Debate on how the Internet of Things can spread its wings" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was a discussion and networking event which took place at the House of Commons, and the Chair of the session was Mark Prisk MP. Prof Jeremy Watson was invited, and did in fact give a presentation on PETRAS in line with the theme of the event "The Internet of Things". The "Internet of Things" has gone from being a futuristic concept to a change that is already being seen in our everyday lives, in which an ever increasing number of internet-enabled devices can communicate and instantaneously share data. This event examined the potential barriers to further interconnection of devices, including the challenges of sharing data, and explored how cities can take full advantage of the "Internet of Things" revolution. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Academic Network Presentation to the Foreign Commonwealth Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The content of these conversations is closed but some discussion revolved broadly around topics related to our research on the lack of discussion of IoT at the UN as well as work we have been doing on cultures of security. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Academics warn of the dangers of too much tech in your house, The Metro |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 08/06/2019 Academics warn of the dangers of too much tech in your house, The Metro |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/06/academics-warn-of-the-dangers-of-too-much-tech-in-your-house-9839873/... |
Description | Advances in Blockchain Technology Scotland 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | ABT-Scotland is an online event organised by the Blockchain Technology Lab (BTL) in partnership with the Bayes Centre at the University of Edinburgh. The event aims to showcase the pioneering world-class research on blockchain technology taking place at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | After Money Geocoin workshop - 21 Nov 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This workshop will introduce new developments such as blockchain and smart contracting technologies to participants in a tangible and experiential way. The aim is to foster and support creative explorations of potential future visions of value exchange in an increasingly 'smart city'. After an initial introduction, the workshop will comprise of a hands-on exploration of GeoCoin and a creative smart contracting activity. GeoCoin is a web app developed by the Design Informatics Team to explore digital currencies and value in the city. Based on the smart contracting platform Ethereum and in association with your phone's GPS data, it will challenge your understanding of data sharing, value exchange, and economic transactions in the city in an experiential way. We will then further dive into the understanding and use of smart contracts through an 'If This Then What' design exercise to envision and imagine new narratives and potential applications. Overall, this workshop aims to foster discussion and understanding of potential issues, concerns and opportunities arising from these new technological developments for society, business and people alike. No prior knowledge of the technologies is required to join the workshop, nor is it necesary to own a smartphone. However, bringing a smartphone along will allow you to get the most out of the experience. Both workshops are part of the After Money Symposium which heralds the end of Design Informatics' research project After Money in collaboration with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the New Economics Foundation, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The event is hosted by New Media Scotland as part of their 48 hours programme. The symposium events are separately ticketed - please book sessions you would like to attend separately. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://aftermoney.design/429-2/ |
Description | Alan Turing Institute - High Value Manufacturing Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple gave a talk on securing IoT in the supply chain. Programme 9:30 Registration & Refreshments in WBS London, Foyer Session I: 10:00 - 11:30 Andrew Blake, Director, Alan Turing Institute Overview of ATI and steering its research priorities Mark Girolami, Professor, Statistics, University of Warwick Vignettes of big data success Mike Bell, Global Connected Car Director, Jaguar Land Rover (tba) 11:30 - 12:00 Refreshments in the WBS London, Foyer Session II: 12:00 - 13:00 Simon Bradley, VP, Product & Cyber Security Program Directorate, Airbus Security & Digitalisation - Challenges in Aerospace Lina Huertas, Technology Manager, Manufacturing Technology Centre The role of data in the fourth industrial revolution 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch in the WBS London, Foyer Session III: 14:00 - 15:00 Dan Somers, Chief Executive Officer, Warwick Analytics Practical Predictions. Real use cases and real challenges 15:00 - 15:30 Refreshments in the WBS London, Foyer Session IV: 15:30 - 17:00 Richard Hopkirk, Land Rover BAR (America's Cup team) Data Analysis in High Performance Sailing Carsten Maple, Professor, WMG Cyber Security, University of Warwick Cyber Security in the Supply Chain Panel Discussion 17:00 - 19:00 Networking Canapes and Drinks Reception: WBS London, Foyer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Alignment with BRC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Meeting to align CSI activities with work underway at the British Retail Consortium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Alignment with BSI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A meeting to align CSI activites with work underway at BSI |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Alignment with Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Alignment with DCMS activities around labelling schemes for IoT |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Alignment with Which? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Which? are undertaking reviews around the security of consumer IoT. We were seeking alignment with our labelling scheme that addresses a similiar aim |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Annual Karen Sparck Jones lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Annual Karen Sparck Jones lecture at the Royal Society. Asked questions of speaker and commented on latest developments in CAV and Space. Various discussions during networking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Anticipating GDPR in Smart Homes Through Fictional Conversational Objects (MyData, Tallinn) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presenting PETRAS work around Adoption and Acceptability in domestic contexts to the international MyData conference's legal/GDPR track. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://mydata2017.org/presentations/ |
Description | Anticipating adoption in Healthcare IoT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at Dementai Workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.slideshare.net/MysticMonkey/anticipating-adoption-in-iot |
Description | Architecture and the Platform Economy: Avoiding an apocalypse. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | McMeel, D., Speed, C. (2019) Architecture and the Platform Economy: Avoiding an apocalypse. RGS-IBG AC2019 papers in session Convivial knowledges: commoning and interdependence. London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://conference.rgs.org/AC2019/9 |
Description | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: AMultidisciplinary/Multistakehoders Round Table at Global Digital Foundation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The meeting focused on key problems posed by the development of Machine Learning. Machine Learning promise radical change in sectors such as medicine, education, elderly care, transport and manufacturing. Like previous revolutions-printing, electricity, the combustion engine, transistors, computers and the internet-AI and Machine Learning will augment and disrupt the world of work. They will turbocharge some jobs and replace others. They will also create new industries that call for workers with skills that do not yet exist. Policymakers must start thinking now about how to realise the potential for AI and Machine Learning to increase economic productivity and to improve the lives of millions-especially people in the developing world. What should they do to encourage the adoption of these technologies? And can they legitimately do so without also responding to their potential negative impact? The downside for some-who may lose their livelihood. And the dark side-that AI and Machine Learning could enable discrimination or economic exclusion? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.globaldigitalfoundation.org/events/2017/1/17/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning... |
Description | Asian Banking School Programme: FinTech by Design |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Asian Banking School Programme: FinTech by Design |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Attendance and Talk at MobiUK (First UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium) 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | RA Mateusz Mikusz and PI Nigel Davies attended MobiUK aiming to foster future collaborations with researchers working in the field of mobile, wearable and ubiquitous systems in the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://mobiuk.org |
Description | Attendance at City Labs Manchester IoT event 29th March 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Cooper attended this event as a representative of PETRAS IoT Hub |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Attendance at DIS workshop on Designing Reconfigurable Televisual Experiences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Attendance at the workshop on Designing Reconfigurable TV Experiences introducing participants (experts in the field) to the latest smart campus (DiSSC) research on personalisable public displays. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.designingthefuture.tv |
Description | Attendance, Talk and Demo at HotMobile 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | RAs Mateusz Mikusz and Peter Shaw and PI Nigel Davies attended HotMobile 2019 (The Twentieth International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications). Nigel Davies presented the paper "Mapping of the IoT" that sparked a number of discussions among the research community present. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://hotmobile.org/2019/ |
Description | Automotive Suppliers Day talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussing security, privacy and resilience in transport systems |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | B-IoT Active travel workshop: a focussed workshop to explore location taxonomies and leveraging verified location data in smart contracts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop was intended to work through a number of key issues for the B-IoT active travel project with a small number of researchers with experience in this area. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | B-IoT knowledge exchange workshop with professionals working in improving active travel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop explored how divergent views of future travel within cities can be brought together to find commonalities and produce a combined vision of the future. It also looked at how new technologies: digital ledgers and smart contracts that provide verified location data, might be harnessed to provide solutions to achieve this preferred future. The aim was part knowledge exchange, between the research team and professional working within active travel, and to test out and progress ideas and hypothesis within the research project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.designinformatics.org/news/future-visions-of-active-travel-in-edinburgh/ |
Description | BBC News - Early mention of IoT deployment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | An early mention of the planned deployment of devices in QEOP - aimed at a mass public facing audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37372119 |
Description | BBC News - Tomorrow's cities - nightmare vision of the future? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Developing the research conversation around devices, privacy and trust. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37384152 |
Description | BBC World Service Click interview. Polite Robots That Make Way for People |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | BBC World Service Click interview. Polite Robots That Make Way for People http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cstxkx 10th September 2017. Last figures showed this had 12130 views worldwide since 5th September |