Talk2Lab: The smart lab of the future
Talk2Lab: The smart lab of the future
In today's world of advancing technology, pervasive and ubiquitous systems have become more common, and have been adapted for many different areas of use. The Internet-of-Things (IoT) movement has increased in popularity, and there are now many affordable, customizable smart devices available for various purposes. These devices are commonly found in the home, but have yet to infiltrate the scientific laboratory in the same way. Some laboratories do use IoT devices to control and monitor equipment, but smart laboratories just do not exist in the same way as smart homes, until now. This article introduces the use cases for a smart integrated laboratory, and describes a prototype system, Talk2Lab, that was implemented in an experimental laser facility. Talk2Lab uses a combination of sensors, Raspberry Pis, camera feeds, and multiple interaction methods (voice, text, and visual dashboards) to facilitate laboratory communication. It was evaluated by the laboratory users for usability, and to identify potential areas of expansion. The work to date illustrates the type of systems that can be created using IoT devices. From the results of the user evaluation, we have conceptualized a future vision for Talk2Lab: a fully interconnected laboratory of the future.
Iot, Smart lab, alexa, lab of the future, smart laboratories
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Knight, Nicola
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Kanza, Samantha
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Cruickshank, Donald
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Brocklesby, William
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Frey, Jeremy G.
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September 2020
Knight, Nicola
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Kanza, Samantha
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Cruickshank, Donald
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Brocklesby, William
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Frey, Jeremy G.
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Knight, Nicola, Kanza, Samantha, Cruickshank, Donald, Brocklesby, William and Frey, Jeremy G.
(2020)
Talk2Lab: The smart lab of the future.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7 (9), , [9094640].
(doi:10.1109/JIOT.2020.2995323).
Abstract
In today's world of advancing technology, pervasive and ubiquitous systems have become more common, and have been adapted for many different areas of use. The Internet-of-Things (IoT) movement has increased in popularity, and there are now many affordable, customizable smart devices available for various purposes. These devices are commonly found in the home, but have yet to infiltrate the scientific laboratory in the same way. Some laboratories do use IoT devices to control and monitor equipment, but smart laboratories just do not exist in the same way as smart homes, until now. This article introduces the use cases for a smart integrated laboratory, and describes a prototype system, Talk2Lab, that was implemented in an experimental laser facility. Talk2Lab uses a combination of sensors, Raspberry Pis, camera feeds, and multiple interaction methods (voice, text, and visual dashboards) to facilitate laboratory communication. It was evaluated by the laboratory users for usability, and to identify potential areas of expansion. The work to date illustrates the type of systems that can be created using IoT devices. From the results of the user evaluation, we have conceptualized a future vision for Talk2Lab: a fully interconnected laboratory of the future.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 May 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 May 2020
Published date: September 2020
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Manuscript received December 2, 2019; revised March 2, 2020 and April 16, 2020; accepted May 2, 2020. Date of publication May 18, 2020; date of current version September 15, 2020. This work was supported in part by the Digital Economy IT as a Utility Network under Grant EP/K003569/1, and in part by the Physical and Digital Science South under Grant EP/P511407/1, and inherited much from the e-Science under Grant EP/C008863/1 and Grant EP/F05811X/1. The work of Samantha Kanza was supported by EPSRC for studentship for the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Southampton, funded by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/G036926/1. (Corresponding author: Nicola J. Knight.) The authors are with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K. (e-mail: n.knight@soton.ac.uk; s.kanza@soton.ac.uk; dgc@ecs.soton.ac.uk; wsb@orc.soton.ac.uk; j.g.frey@soton.ac.uk). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2995323
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Iot, Smart lab, alexa, lab of the future, smart laboratories
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