IT Services

Gitlab Service for Research

Gitlab is a commonly used on-premise web-based DevOps (development + operation) lifecycle tool for software development. To keep abreast of the trend, we provide researchers with on premises git repository as an alternative for storing code base (Ide integration, e.g. Rstudio) and implementing software project management. To start your project with GitLab, please make prior registration here.

High Performance Computing Support Services

In line with the University’s emphasis on applied research activities, shared servers, disk storage and common software on the academic and research computers and efficient technical support will continue to be made available to students. We also provide support for the development of communities of practice and to establish high performance computing facilities which provide a shared service for big data centric research and build capability within the University.

IoT Data Provisioning and Data Visualization Service

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly evolving and expanding collection of diverse devices and wearables that interact with the edge devices as well as Cloud applications. With IoTs data integration and growth in computing and storage capabilities on Cloud, the barriers to achieve real time monitoring and tracking on environment and activities become much lower to allow such application to expand to higher education campus. A shared IoT infrastructure is established with the components to facilitate the adoption of IoT technologies in research projects and administrative operation of the University: A private LoRaWan network infrastructure covering the open areas of the campus A data collection and provisioning infrastructure for collecting telemetry data from edge devices irrespective of the location of the devices and provisioning the collected data to external database A data visualization platform for users to analyse the collected data with dashboards Near-to-realtime alert can be generated based on anomalies detected from edge devices Edge devices can be controlled via the IoT infrastructure to perform corresponding actions based on the telemetry data or open data There are some use cases showing how departments leverage the IoT infrastructure and related services to achieve their operational need or research project objectives.

’IT Support for Research’ Consulting Service

Researchers may come across with IT related troubles or problems while conduct their research activities, our IT support consulting service may be of assistance in providing advice on IT tools and platforms supported by the University to researchers. You may reserve a timeslot to meet and discuss with our support staff for consultation via the booking system.

‘IT Support for Research’ Training

To better equip our staff, students and researchers with the IT skills in using research-related software, workshop and webinars on programming skills and software tools are regularly arranged in support of research activities. Details of training will be announced from time to time. Resources are available online for revisit if you cannot attend the class on a particular date.

MySurvey Service

The online survey tool mySurvey allows our users to create and conduct web-based opinion surveys for learning and research purposes without programming effort. The data can be outputted in various format for further analysis.