Our research group has access to two dedicated lab spaces and a variety of state-of-the-art equipment within the School of Computer Science and Informatics and Cardiff University.

Many of our equipment is generously funded by various research councils (EPSRC, the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Science, the Welsh Government, GW4 Alliance, etc.) and the School of Computer Science.  

ANT Neuro EEGO-Sport

• State-of-the-art biosensing platform.

• 32 channels, 

• 24-bit high-fidelity biosensors (EEG, EOG, EMG, and other physiological signals)

• Medium EEG cap.

OpenBCI Cyton and Ganglion platforms

• Opensource biosensing platform.

• 4/8 channels, 

• 24-bit high-fidelity biosensors (EEG, EOG, EMG, and other physiological signals)

Electronic Testing Station

• PicoScope 5000 Oscilloscope and Function Generator (200MHz analog bandwidth, up to 16bit resolution and 1GS/s, 20MHz function generator).

• Saleae Logic Pro 16 Analyzer.

• Otii Arc Pro Power analyser.

• JLink Debuggers (Ultra and Edu versions).

• Lab power supply.

• Multi-meters.

Electronic and Mobile Development Station

• Our electronic and mobile development station has a variety of:

• Mobile phones (Android and iOS).

• Arduinos (Uno, Mega, Nano BLE Sense, etc.)

• Raspberry Pis.

• Software defined radio platforms (USRP B200)

• Blood pressure and EKG monitors.

• Biopotential sensing platforms (OpenBCI Cyton, Ganglions) 

• Bioimpedance sensing platforms (MAX30009EVAL)

• Robotic Car.

• And various development kits from ST Electronics, Nordic Semiconductors, Microchip, etc.

Rapid Prototyping Station

• We have a dedicated station for rapid prototyping that includes:

• Fully-equipment soldering and rework stations,

• Fume extractors,

• Hot plate,

• And various tools and materials (e.g., flux, desoldering, IPA, conductive threads, etc.)

The Smart Home Lab (SHL) is a key research facility designed, developed and managed by the IoT group. It is a physical space (currently located in 5.26 Abacws) comprised of over 170 networked smart home devices. It has six hotdesk working areas where researchers (staff and students) can conduct various types of research with smart home devices. It comprises a wide range of devices such as smart TV, environmental monitoring kettles, various smart speakers, robotic vacuum cleaners, smart metre bells, door locks and many more. We use OpenHab and Home Assistant to capture semantic data and Wireshark to capture network traffic and related network communications and behaviours. The smart home lab also comprises a video network connected to six different types of smart home and consumer CCTV cameras to a network video recorder that allows connecting video analysis research in relation to the smart home domain. We also have a dedicated data science workstation to support extensive machine learning and deep learning research using smart home data.

The School of Computer Science and Informatics hosts several high-performance workstations that can be booked and accessed remotely (through https://resourcebooker.cardiff.ac.uk).

(1) 3 x Workstation with NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs (48GB VRAM)

(2) 3 x Workstation with NVIDIA RTX A4090 GPUs (24GB VRAM)

Details will be updated soon.

Our AgileCPS group also has dedicated GPU workstations for our internal research development.

(3) RTX4070 workstation: 

• Core i7, 

• 32GB RAM,

• 1TB SSD, 

• RTX 4070 TiSuper, 16GB VRAM.

• Windows 11.

(4) SPIKE workstation (shared with CardiffIoT Group): 

• Xeon W-2245 (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 4.7GHz), 

• 128GB RAM, 

• 256GB NVMe SSD, 

• RTX A6000, 48GB VRAM.

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

The Maker's Space hosts state-of-the-art facilities for rapid prototyping and manufacturing, including:

(1) 6 x Prusa MK4S 3D Printers.

(2) Soldering stations.

(3) Laser cutter.