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European IoT
Prototyping Network

IoT Rapid-Proto Labs is a network that creates new IoT knowledge in Europe. Students from different European higher education institutions have the opportunity to contribute to real-life IoT business cases and get support from teacher-coaches and experts. The Project Arena, a web-based platform, stimulates the flow of knowledge and innovation between European higher education, enterprises and other stakeholders.

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Join the Network

Higher education institutions, Startups and Small and Medium sized enterprises can freely join the IoT Rapid-Proto Labs network.

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Team up for a Project

The IoT Rapid-Proto Labs Arena matches project partners, supports cross-border student teamwork, enables project management and client communication.

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Knowledge Sharing

Sharing project results is an integral part of the IoT Rapid-Proto Labs design. Knowledge sharing will help improve European innovation capacity and reduce risks in IoT product development.

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Featured Projects

Preventing COVID-19 contagion in industrial environments through anonymous contact tracing

The project aims at designing an energy autonomous, inexpensive, anonymous, and non-intrusive contact tracing for preventing COVID-19 contagion in industrial environments. Students are asked to develop wearable tags that combine information from ultra-wideband positioning, Bluetooth low-energy, and inertial measurement units to classify contagion risks due to small distance and mutual orientation between workers. The pilot should feature a real-time detection of risk occurrences, while an offline report generation should provide the employer to assess the workplace's risk level daily. The goal it to facilitate the re-layout of the environment (e.g., workstations, equipment...) or the re-schedule of the tasks. The wearable tags are conceived to operate for an extreme lifetime, thanks to specific power management and an energy harvesting feature that converts power from the surrounding environment.

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Internet-in-the-box

In this course, you will develop your ability to build and use functional prototypes as part of your design process. You will gain this prototyping experience through the guided development of a connected light product. In teams of three, you will build and use several iterations of this product with a strong focus on the technology and the functional implementation. You will rely on a Raspberry Pi – small computer – to sense contextual changes and control connected light bulbs via Python code. Your prototype will help you gain an understanding of the technologies through tests and data exploration.

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Latest News

June 5, 2021

Podcast: Wrapping things up

Martti Asikainen

On our fifth podcast, Haaga-Helia's Martti Asikainen interviews Nella Kelkka from the IoT Rapid-Proto Labs about the lessons and learnings of the project and the future of cross-border collaboration in Europe.

Kelkka also talks about the Final event of the IoT Rapid-Proto Labs, which will be held on June 8th.

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June 1, 2021

Podcast: Multidisciplinary curriculum

Martti Asikainen

On our sixth podcast, researcher Lysanne Post interviews Wilfried Admiraal, Pengyue Guo, and Nadira Saab from the University of Leiden about the principles of student lab learning and the development of a large-scale multidisciplinary curriculum.

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Reporting

Evaluation Report

August 18, 2021
Haaga-Helia (HAA)

This report chapter covers the activities and results of the IoT Rapid-Proto Labs evaluation work package (WP8). First, it will list the activities that have been carried out by this WP, after which it will evaluate the project against the goals set in D8.1 Evaluation Plan.

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Final Curriculum Report

May 1, 2021
Wilfried Admiraal

Designing an interdisciplinary IoT curriculum poses different challenges than designing a regular (IoT) curriculum. It involves collaboration with other – possibly international – higher educational institutions and business to bring different disciplines and perspectives together within one course. In the IoT Rapid-Proto Labs project, teachers encountered such challenges.

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European IoT Development Network

IoT Rapid-Proto Labs is a higher education network combining ICT, Industrial Design and Industrial Engineering. Cross-border student teams from Finland, the Netherlands and Italy contribute to real-life IoT business cases with the support of their teacher-coaches.

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