UK launches national IoT research centre

A group of 12 UK research institutions have launched the PETRAS 2 – National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity. The centre aims to advance a comprehensive and systematic research on Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. The creation of the centre is the second phase of the UK PETRAS (privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security) programme which deals with the opportunities, challenges, and threats of digital technology. The centre is funded by the UK Research and Innovation, through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of the Securing Digital Technologies at the Periphery (SDTaP) programme.