UK's new PETRAS 2 centre promises new era for IoT

Led by UCL, the centre will expand on the original PETRAS (Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Acceptability and Security) hub, which saw a consortium of 11 universities and dozens of industry partners come together in 2016 for IoT research. PETRAS 2 will now specifically focus on the opportunities and challenges from computing becoming more decentralised. Artificial intelligence will soon be operating in potentially billions of IoT devices on the ‘edge’ of the internet, no longer confined to data centres or powerful desktop computers. While this edge computing represents a paradigm shift that could bring huge benefits, it will also be something of a step into the unknown. Making this vast interconnected web of computing secure will be a difficult task, but could help transform how society functions on many levels.

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“The Centre’s ultimate aim is, by creating a trustworthy and secure infrastructure for the Internet of Things, to deliver a step change in socio-economic benefit for the UK with visible improvements for citizen wellbeing and quality of life,” said PETRAS director Professor Jeremy Watson, from UCL’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP).