UbiComp and the Internet of Things (IoT)

The IoT project is exploring the platform and technologies needed to support the evolution of the internet from one that is focused mainly on connecting computers to one that connects everything.

Growing out of our work on Pervasive computing (2004-6) PlaceMedia and Ubiquitous computing (2005-8) UCM the IoT project extends our lightweight pub/sub event platform (2007-9) MAGIC Broker 1 with support for a variety of real world devices or ‘things’.

The latest version of the IoT platform, referred to as MAGIC Broker 2 or MB2 is based on the OSGi platform and used in a number of internal and external projects, these include:

The ThingBroker effort is next major revision to MB2.

Student projects (496 and others)

A variety of projects suitable for final year projects are maintained here