How can we facilitate researchers when they need connectivity for their research? For the laptop and smartphone, eduroam is available. But what about other devices or sensors?

SURF has developed the service iotroam to easily connect devices with wifi if they cannot use eduroam. A self-service portal allows users to register their devices themselves, without intervention of the IT department.

In addition, we at SURF are looking at other IoT protocols. We think that LoRaWAN currently plays an important role for education and research. Therefore, we are in the process of setting up and rolling out a nationwide LoRaWAN network for our members. Our aim is that this can be used in a low-threshold way and, if desired, the data can be processed in the familiar SURF environment, for example in SURF Research Cloud.

In the demo, we will show how iotroam and the LoRaWAN solution work and how they can be used in practice. We will bring some devices and sensors for the demonstration. We also have the connection with IoT for Research in SURF Research Cloud for real-time processing and visualization of the data, providing an end-to-end solution for researchers.