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 & 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.
ITS has established a secure and shared IoT infrastructure at campus and made available related implementation services to departments who interested to leverage IoTs to drive efficiency in business operation or research data collection. The outdoor LoRaWAN (communication protocol connecting IoT devices to network) Gateway deployment has been completed which provides full LoRaWAN radio signal coverage in the open areas of campus.
When planning to deploy an IoT solution, departments or research offices should factor into the following areas:
- Data security
- IoT Infrastructure
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- IoT Communication Protocol
- Data Streaming and Collection
- Device Registration
- Network Segmentation
- Sensor Type
For details, please refer to Deployment Guideline for Internet of Things in the University (Section 5).
