1. Smart Devices, Environments & Interaction to Enable the Internet of Things
Stefan Poslad, PhD
School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science
Centre for Intelligent Sensing (CIS)

2. Contact Details, Research Interests
Web: IM: skype poslad1
Primary Research Interest
IoT: Internet of Things, Ubiquitous computing, mobile services, wearables
But also
Intelligent Systems of agents, use Semantics etc
Management (energy, safety, privacy, comms) of IoT

3. China Links & Research
Undergraduate Project Supervisor Beijing University of Post Telecoms (BUPT) from 2013, best project student award
Participated in 15 Student Recruitment events in China
Visiting Professor at 2 Chinese Universities
IETLab, BUPT, , Wuxi Taihu University,
Entrepreneurship Judge for finalists of the International Talent Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge (iTEC 2014) - organised by China-Britain Science and Culture Association (CBSCA)
Textbook in use with > 25 Chinese universities on Internet of Things / Ubiquitous computing
Member of EU-China smart City Expert Group
10/18 Chinese PhD Students since 2006
3/4 Chinese Post-doc researchers

4. IoT: R&D As an IoT researcher and developer, I seek to:
1. Engineer new interactive products / things – Smart Device & Smart Environment(-Device)s
2. Acquire, fuse and process the data collected from things
3. Interact with & interconnect these things as part of larger, more diverse, systems – Smart Interaction
I am director of new MSc in IoT starts September 2016; teach mobile services and IoT
Smart
Devices
Smart Interaction
Data
Science
Smart
Environments

5. Some Example IoTs: (Mobile) Devices to Sense Motion 1
WAN-LAN
Transceivers
GPS, WiFI, GSM
WPAN (BLE) <-> NFC
Transceivers
Vehicle Transceivers, pollution, etc
Proximity Sensors
e.g,. Traffic Lights
Inertial Sensors

6. Some Example IoTs: Wearables
Sound activated wearable light display
Shoes / foot force
Haptic Feedback
eHealth Body Monitoring
Exercise Monitor + 3D Printed Watch

7. 2016-17 Example Project Topics
Tracking Badminton Racket Movement Using Embedded Sensors
Tracking Table Tennis Racket Movement Using Embedded Sensors
Creating Indoor Maps of buildings based upon how people move
Improved Human Motion Detection using Multiple Inertial Sensors
Sensing what type of place someone is in
A sensor hub to monitor seed growth and plant welfare
Smart Clothes or accessories that can change their appearance
Controlling Multiple Objects or services in your home / work via a universal controller, Bluetooth device, phone etc
A Virtual Reality application using Google Cardboard
Turn your phone into a Hologram