The PETRAS consortium of nine leading UK universities is launching an Internet-of-Thing(IoT) Hub that boasts approximately £23 million in total funding to drive innovation in the UK, exploring the technical, ethical and social issues associated with these networks.
The Hub will be led by UCL with Imperial College London, University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Lancaster University, University of Southampton, University of Surrey, University of Edinburgh and Cardiff University.
The project is part of IoTUK, an integrated £40 million, three-year, Government programme that seeks to advance the UK's global leadership in IoT and increase the adoption of high quality IoT technologies and services throughout businesses and the public sector.
Working with business, public, and third sectors, PETRAS IoT Hub will focus on five themes - Privacy and trust, Safety and security, Harnessing economic value, Standards governance, Policy and adoption and Acceptability.
Professor Philip Nelson, EPSRC's Chief Executive
Physical objects and devices will be able to interact with each other, ourselves, and the wider virtual world. But, before this can happen, there must be trust and confidence in how the Internet of Things works, its security and its resilience.
Ed Vaizey, Digital Economy Minister
We want the UK to be a world leader in the adoption of Internet of Things technologies, and I know that bringing these universities together with partners from the UK's thriving tech industry will be instrumental in making this a reality.
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