ABSTRACT
The Internet of Things will be massive and pervasive. It will impact many and diverse application domains such as environmental monitoring, transportation, energy and water management, security, safety, assisted living, smart homes, eHealth, etc. Developing and testing technologies in conventional research labs appears to be insufficient to really grasp, fine tune and validate new IoT technologies. The crowd is at the core of the research cycle with active role in research from its inception to the results’ evaluation. On the other side, IoT Lab aims at enhancing existing IoT testbeds, by integrating them together into a testbed as a service and by extending the platform with crowdsourcing crowd-sensing capacities. IoT Lab platform architecture design addressed a double challenge: on one hand, it had to integrate diverse IoT-related testbeds located in different regions of Europe; on the other hand, it had to integrate smart phones with existing FIRE testbed infrastructures, thus representing novel approach with respect to existing crowdsourcing solutions.
