Enhancing the Internet of Things with Reconfigurable Hardware and Software

This article describes my PhD research to date and my plans for future work. The mission of this PhD is to bring flexible and customisable sensing and actuation to a broad new range of devices. My research thus far has focused on μPnP [9], a system that supports plug-and-play integration of embedded sensors and actuators with the Internet of Things (IoT) at extremely low power and cost. My future work will focus on the creation of a sensing module for mobile phones and supporting middleware that realizes platform-independent and secure sensing using networks of smartphones.