UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation
UMBRELLA (A Living Laboratory: <uri>https://www.umbrellaiot.com/</uri>) is an open, large-scale IoT ecosystem deployed across South Gloucestershire, UK. It is intended to accelerate innovation across multiple technology domains. UMBRELLA is built to bridge the gap between existing specia...
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| author | Ioannis Mavromatis Yichao Jin Aleksandar Stanoev Anthony Portelli Ingram Weeks Ben Holden Eliot Glasspole Tim Farnham Aftab Khan Usman Raza Adnan Aijaz Thomas Bierton Ichiro Seto Nita Patel Mahesh Sooriyabandara |
| author_facet | Ioannis Mavromatis Yichao Jin Aleksandar Stanoev Anthony Portelli Ingram Weeks Ben Holden Eliot Glasspole Tim Farnham Aftab Khan Usman Raza Adnan Aijaz Thomas Bierton Ichiro Seto Nita Patel Mahesh Sooriyabandara |
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| description | UMBRELLA (A Living Laboratory: <uri>https://www.umbrellaiot.com/</uri>) is an open, large-scale IoT ecosystem deployed across South Gloucestershire, UK. It is intended to accelerate innovation across multiple technology domains. UMBRELLA is built to bridge the gap between existing specialised testbeds and address holistically real-world technological challenges in a System-of-Systems (SoS) fashion. UMBRELLA provides open access to real-world devices and infrastructure, enabling researchers and the industry to evaluate solutions for Smart Cities, Robotics, Wireless Communications, Edge Intelligence, and more. Key features include over 200 multi-sensor nodes installed on public infrastructure, a robotics arena with 20 mobile robots, a 5G network-in-a-box solution, and a unified backend platform for management, control and secure user access. The heterogeneity of hardware components, including diverse sensors, communication interfaces, and GPU-enabled edge devices, coupled with tools like digital twins, allows for comprehensive experimentation and benchmarking of innovative solutions unviable in lab environments. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of UMBRELLA’s multi-domain architecture and capabilities, making it an ideal playground for Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) innovation. It discusses the challenges in designing, developing and operating UMBRELLA as an open, sustainable testbed and shares lessons learned to guide similar future initiatives. With its unique openness, heterogeneity, realism and tools, UMBRELLA aims to continue accelerating cutting-edge technology research, development and translation into real-world progress. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-933f373a442047c58895f36cfcce13de2024-03-27T23:00:28ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-0112421814221310.1109/ACCESS.2024.337766210472978UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT ExperimentationIoannis Mavromatis0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3309-132XYichao Jin1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3309-132XAleksandar Stanoev2Anthony Portelli3Ingram Weeks4Ben Holden5Eliot Glasspole6Tim Farnham7Aftab Khan8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3573-6240Usman Raza9Adnan Aijaz10https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-0469Thomas Bierton11Ichiro Seto12https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5886-3683Nita Patel13Mahesh Sooriyabandara14Digital Catapult, London, U.K.Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., Avon, Bristol, U.K.Nordic Semiconductor, Avon, Bristol, U.K.Turtle Beach, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., Avon, Bristol, U.K.Q5D Technologies Ltd., Portishead, North Somerset, U.K.Amiosec Ltd., Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, U.K.Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., Avon, Bristol, U.K.Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., Avon, Bristol, U.K.Waymap, London, U.K.Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., Avon, Bristol, U.K.Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., Avon, Bristol, U.K.Corporate Research and Development Centre, Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, JapanSouth Gloucestershire Council, Yate, Gloucester, U.K.Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., Avon, Bristol, U.K.UMBRELLA (A Living Laboratory: <uri>https://www.umbrellaiot.com/</uri>) is an open, large-scale IoT ecosystem deployed across South Gloucestershire, UK. It is intended to accelerate innovation across multiple technology domains. UMBRELLA is built to bridge the gap between existing specialised testbeds and address holistically real-world technological challenges in a System-of-Systems (SoS) fashion. UMBRELLA provides open access to real-world devices and infrastructure, enabling researchers and the industry to evaluate solutions for Smart Cities, Robotics, Wireless Communications, Edge Intelligence, and more. Key features include over 200 multi-sensor nodes installed on public infrastructure, a robotics arena with 20 mobile robots, a 5G network-in-a-box solution, and a unified backend platform for management, control and secure user access. The heterogeneity of hardware components, including diverse sensors, communication interfaces, and GPU-enabled edge devices, coupled with tools like digital twins, allows for comprehensive experimentation and benchmarking of innovative solutions unviable in lab environments. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of UMBRELLA’s multi-domain architecture and capabilities, making it an ideal playground for Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) innovation. It discusses the challenges in designing, developing and operating UMBRELLA as an open, sustainable testbed and shares lessons learned to guide similar future initiatives. With its unique openness, heterogeneity, realism and tools, UMBRELLA aims to continue accelerating cutting-edge technology research, development and translation into real-world progress.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10472978/IoTIIoTtestbedexperimentationsystem-of-systemswireless |
| spellingShingle | Ioannis Mavromatis Yichao Jin Aleksandar Stanoev Anthony Portelli Ingram Weeks Ben Holden Eliot Glasspole Tim Farnham Aftab Khan Usman Raza Adnan Aijaz Thomas Bierton Ichiro Seto Nita Patel Mahesh Sooriyabandara UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation IEEE Access IoT IIoT testbed experimentation system-of-systems wireless |
| title | UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation |
| title_full | UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation |
| title_fullStr | UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation |
| title_full_unstemmed | UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation |
| title_short | UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation |
| title_sort | umbrella a one stop shop bridging the gap from lab to real world iot experimentation |
| topic | IoT IIoT testbed experimentation system-of-systems wireless |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10472978/ |
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