WMG part of £23m Internet of Things research hub

Ed Vaizey, Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, has confirmed that the University of Warwick is one of nine leading UK universities in the PETRAS consortium which will work together over the next three years to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.


Funding for the hub includes a £9.8m grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) which will be boosted by partner contributions.

The project is part of IoTUK, an integrated £40m, three-year, Government programme that seeks to advance the UK’s global leadership in IoT and increase the adoption of high quality IoT technologies and services throughout businesses and the public sector.

The hub is a consortium of nine leading universities including the University of Warwick, UCL, Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, Lancaster University, the University of Southampton, the University of Surrey, the University of Edinburgh and Cardiff University.