Overview
Established in 2016 with approval from the Xi'an Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Xi'an Internet of Things Application Engineering Laboratory is built upon Xi'an University. It serves as a municipal-level engineering research and technology transformation platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), rooted in Xi'an and extending its influence across the region. Aligned with Xi'an's strategy for high-quality socioeconomic development, the laboratory engages in deep collaboration with key enterprises along the IoT industrial chain, focusing on research areas including intelligent sensing and multi-sensor fusion, smart cities and ecological environment monitoring, and IoT big data analytics and intelligent decision-making. By establishing a collaborative innovation system integrating government, industry, academia, research, and application, the laboratory aims to break through critical common technologies, accelerate the transformation of scientific achievements, and cultivate high-level engineering talent, thereby providing strong technical support and talent assurance for the upgrading and transformation of the regional IoT industry.
Team and Achievements
The laboratory currently has 15 full-time researchers, including three professors, with all other members holding doctoral degrees or possessing associate professor titles or higher. Enterprise engineers are also invited to participate in technological research. The team features academic leaders guiding the direction, mid-to-young doctoral researchers serving as core developers, and enterprise engineers contributing technical expertise—forming a well-structured and highly capable research group.
In recent years, the laboratory has led 10 provincial and municipal vertical research projects and 31 horizontal projects funded by enterprises, securing over 6 million RMB in total funding. It has published 23 academic papers, including 11 indexed in SCI, EI, CSCD sources, or Chinese core journals. The laboratory has obtained nine national invention patents and registered 29 software copyrights. Its achievements have supported the IoT Engineering program in being designated as a Shaanxi Provincial First-Class Program Construction Site in 2020. Leveraging the laboratory’s platform, students from five electronic information disciplines—including IoT Engineering and Electronic Information Engineering—have excelled, winning more than ten national-level awards and over one hundred provincial-level awards, and securing over ten provincial-level or higher student innovation and entrepreneurship projects.
