Launch of I3-Lab at Imperial College London
TL;DR:
The I3-Lab at Imperial College London, partly funded by the IOTA Foundation, makes a speciality of round economy examine utilizing digital instruments. Launching this present day, July 3, 2024, the Lab targets to innovate sustainable industry devices and technologies to decouple financial negate from resource consumption.
We are overjoyed to negate the I3-Lab at Imperial College London, a impart of the art examine facility centered on the round economy. It is funded by a £1M donation from the IOTA Foundation, extra funding by Imperial, and extra grant increase from UK Be taught and Innovation, and the European Union.
The I3-Lab will most seemingly be hosted at iCUBE, a devoted house that can lend a hand because the hub for pioneering sustainability examine that launches this present day, July Third.
Empowering the Circular Economy
The I3-Lab, short for Imperial IOTA Infrastructure Lab, will focal point on the advent and use of digital devices that empower the round economy.
Ragged industry devices link resource consumption to financial negate, ensuing in unsustainable practices. The round economy targets to decouple this relationship by focusing on sustainability thru reuse and recycling. This shift requires original manufacturing methods and technologies that promote sustainability, making it crucial focal point for the work of the IOTA Foundation. Our dispensed ledger technology is already being feeble in loads of initiatives that innovate original financial devices, such because the Alternate Logistics Records Pipeline (TLIP) and Digital Product Passports.
More About I3-Lab
A definite characteristic of I3-Lab is its aim to build technologies supporting original possession devices and industry devices in keeping with servitization. These devices facilitate the sharing and on-seek recordsdata from ranking admission to to goods, services and products, and materials, engrossing faraway from inclined sole possession. By means of these enhancements, the I3-Lab will foster round economy devices that successfully decouple financial negate from resource consumption.
The I3-Lab is already making necessary strides, having secured two extra grants and funding for Autofair, a Horizon Europe project for dazzling AI algorithms, iCircular3, a project that examine circularity within the contexts of robotics, autos, and delivery air instruments, and CoDiet, a examine project to combat weight reduction program-associated diseases thru weight reduction program-monitoring tech and personalized vitamin. The I3-Lab has employed five PhD college students and loads of different senior researchers, with the aim of an whole crew of about 25 folks. The Victorian building housing the lab has been meticulously restored, adding a contact of historical charm to the slicing-edge examine facility.
The Foundation’s Applied Be taught Workforce will most seemingly be working and exchanging data with the initiatives eager with the Lab, led by Dr. William Sanders, IOTA’s Director of Applied Be taught, who is a visiting researcher at the Lab.
IOTA and Imperial
I3-Lab marks the most up-to-date negate within the relationship between the IOTA Foundation and Imperial. IOTA has beforehand funded grant work for Imperial’s Professor Robert Shorten, with Dr. Pietro Ferraro, now phase of the IOTA crew, having participated in this grant as a postdoc, contributing to the negate of the IOTA Congestion Management algorithm and co-authoring loads of publications on IOTA.
