Smart-Lab: Design and Implementation of an IoT-based Laboratory Platform
Sabrine Khriji, Dhouha El Houssaini, Rim Barioul, Talha Rehman, Olfa Kanoun · 2020
The omnipresent connectivity and highly distributed intelligence of Internet of Things (IoTs) integrated with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) emerge as the backbone of advanced remote surveillance and control. A reliable Smart-Lab system using IoT technologies is designed to control the entire activities of a research laboratory. Smart-Lab provides a real IT intelligent environment by exploring the interaction of devices under a single roof enabling a better alignment of the research with researchers and end-users. To this end, heterogeneous IoT devices are integrated into a centralized monitoring system with developed Application Programming Interface (API). The designed API conceals the complexities of wireless communication protocols, and provides a well-defined and easy-to-use way to collect data from sensors. To implement the back-end, a Representational State Transfer (REST) approach is used. Results of different test-beds can be, stored in a MySQL database and visualized for users on the web page through the use of JSON. Then, as a proof of concept, a real-time IoT based environmental monitoring system is designed.