PETRAS: Internet of Things (IoT) Research Hub
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Start date:
Feb 2016
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End date:
Aug 2019
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Funder:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
The PETRAS IoT Research Hub is a consortium of 9 UK universities working together to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.
Overview
The PETRAS Internet of Things Research Hub is a consortium of nine leading UK universities which will work together over the next three years to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security. Funding for the Hub includes a £9.8 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) which will be boosted by partner contributions to approximately £23 million in total. This project also runs in collaboration with IoTUK.
The PETRAS IoT Hub, is led by UCL and includes Imperial College London, Lancaster University, University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Cardiff University, University of Edinburgh, University of Southampton, and University of Surrey.
People
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Professor Luciano Floridi
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator
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Dr Brent Mittelstadt
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Research Assistant
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Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Research Assistant
Press
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IoT Security Tough Task for Developers Amid Cyber Pedophile Threat
Date Published: 23 January 2018
Source: Sputnik International
"Guaranteeing security is an effort that producers have to make but only now learning to make it. Security comes at costs that providers need to face," Dr. Taddeo told Sputnik.