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The IoT Lab at ISCTE-UTL brings together multidisciplinary researchers and companies to engage in thought leadership, breakthrough research, hands-on investigation and knowledge-sharing activities. We aim a foster understanding, accelerated innovation and development, and successful deployment and adoption of IoT and explore Big Data potential.
This multidisciplinary team represents vast research expertise and covers several levels of the IoT framework, such as: Sensing, Real-time data, Big data, analytics, visualisation tools, with security. This IoT could allow people and things to be connected Anytime, Anyplace, with Anything and Anyone. Ideally using Any/path/network and Any Service.
Our university team is leading several research projects for developing innovative technologies and methodologies in IoT, based on the principle of Collect data, transmitted, stored on IoT platform. This Big data is then manipulated towards the knowledge extraction to perform savings and help in the decision process.
Based on a partnership with Cisco was installed a Cisco LoRa infrastructure available from February 2018. This investment aims to follow technological evolution and innovation, sustaining the pedagogical progress of the courses taught and making ISCTE-IUL a reference entity in the field of IoT.
The Cisco LoRa infrastructure is based on a communications protocol that is revolutionising the world of IoT, especially in the context of Smart Cities. Operator-free, it allows a single Gateway / Antenna to cover up to 15 km radius (30 km in diameter) in an “open” area, where thousands of sensors from the various Smart Cities use cases can coexist.
These sensors provide real-time data from various sources of information and are used in decision support tools that result in benefits and optimisations in the processes of continuous improvement of the services provided to the community, contributing to a better knowledge of the urban dynamics and an increase in the quality of life.
The infrastructure of the ISCTE-IUL LoRa LAB is comprised of two Cisco Enterprise / Industry-class Gateways, installed in both indoor and outdoor environments, to accommodate diverse environments, supporting laboratory equipment, IT equipment and other specific tools.
In this way, this IoT provides students with innovative tools and technologies that foster the development of IoT solutions, enabling articulation and possible direct integration in productive, business and industrial environments, where products tested, analysed and manufactured in the laboratory acquire a practical and real application, according to the needs of the market.
We also apply to be a Lora Academy and part of this is already in the contents of our Master courses curriculum – LoRaWAN Academy is an all-encompassing, hands-on curriculum for university students to learn about the LoRaWAN™ open specification from the creators of LoRa® and the ecosystem that scaled its international adoption. The two-part training program includes a robust online course library as well as LoRaWAN development kits and IoT network infrastructure for hands-on lab training. Content is appropriate for beginner engineering students to intermediate-level engineers looking to learn more about LoRaWAN.
Partnerships performed: Axians, Evox, Cisco, Arquiled
Results of the first six months (October 2017 to March 2018) of activity with works performed for ISCTE-IUL sustainability: 1) Three works with results at the level of electrical energy measurements from which Lora network transmitted data; 2) Three works on water consumption measurement; 3) Two works with context information using beacons; 4) An indoor location job using beacons and map information; 5) Three works with real-time temperature and luminosity measurement. These are the first steps towards a smart campus where sensor data is collected and manipulated towards savings.
Location: Building II 7th floor – Room 707 (around 25m2, capacity for 24 students)
