IoT in the Wild: From Lab to Real-World Deployment

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been around for more than two decades and are a key enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Most IoT applications require devices and communication performance to meet specific reliability and battery lifetime constraints when deployed in real-world scenarios. Ensuring that low-power wireless IoT systems meet these application-specific requirements remains, however, an open challenge.

In this talk, I will present past and ongoing work from the groups I have been part of, focusing on methods and tools to enhance the reliability and battery lifetime of low-power IoT systems, and support IoT developers and users in selecting appropriate IoT technologies for their specific application requirements and deployment environments. This talk provides a brief account of the research and engineering journey we experienced over the years, emphasising the critical importance of testing and validating systems in real-world target scenarios - since “it works in the lab” does not guarantee “it works in the real-world”.

Ramona is the Principal IoT Engineer at Digital Catapult, accelerating the practical application of deep tech across industries to equip the UK to be future-ready.

Her role involves a range of activities, from applying emerging IoT technologies to real-world problems and translating research into prototypes, demonstrators, and pilots, to finding early technology adopters and co-creating new testbeds and accelerator programmes to help innovators leverage IoT technology.

Ramona holds a PhD from the University of Trento, Italy and a MSc degree from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Before joining Digital Catapult, she was a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and a Senior Researcher at the Nimbus Research Centre in Cork, Ireland.

The talk will take place in Bernard Street (40), Room 201and is open to both UCL academic and external audiences.

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