Welcome to Sydney IoT Hub

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging and promising area that proposes to turn every tangible entity into a node on the Internet. More specifically, the tangible entities ("things") are any Internet-connected sensor, camera, display, smart phone, or other smart communicating devices. The IoT involves harnessing the data and functionality of possibly billions of things.  Service computing is possibly the best discipline that may transform IoT to its full-potential. Service computing (alternatively termed service-oriented computing) is the discipline that seeks to develop computational abstractions, architectures, techniques, and tools to support services broadly. A service orientation seeks to transform physical, hardware and software assets into a paradigm in which users and assets establish on-demand interactions, binding resources and operations, providing an abstraction layer that shifts the focus from infrastructure and operations to services. Hence, service-oriented IoT should provide novel smart services that benefit enterprises, industries, and our society.

The service computing research community has been continuing to develop IoT services for the last decade. Although there are incremental advancements, we argue that service computing has not fully reached its potential in the designing IoT services. We observe that the "technology" aspect of the service computing domain is more researched in IoT services. For example, continuously maintaining cyber personalities is a key challenge in the service oriented architecture which can be solved using efficient technologies. In this regard, IoT things need to have Web identities and Web representations (e.g., Web proxies) that reflect their physical spaces. Continuously maintaining contexts for IoT devices is another key challenge in the service oriented architecture. Here, IoT devices need to connect and communicate within social, environmental, user-centric, and application contexts, and such contexts need to be maintained and managed. Here, the "technology" aspect of the service computing domain is not a perfect fit to solve this problem.

• Nov 2017: ARC LIEF Successes $348K; Led by the Department of Computing, Macquarie University, the recent ARC LIEF project will build a nation-wide test bed for research and development of the Internet of Things (IoT), involving seven Australian Universities across five major cities. Details HERE
  
• Nov 2017: Smart Cities Successes $499K; Macquarie University and the City of Ryde Council have been awarded a $499k technology grant to reduce heavy traffic congestion and improve connectivity at Macquarie Park. Details HERE.