MRV.ELL Living Lab

At MRV.ELL Living Lab our focus is on a key issue of today – siloed data, whether its personal data, data inside an organization, or data sharing across different organizations. Data discovery and integration is difficult and presents complex technical, organizational and policy challenges. A Living Lab allows MRV to be a microcosm for many big data efforts.

Living labs is developing a scalable data management platform, allowing us to collect and integrate multiple types of data including: personal data or “small data” (collected by smart phones, activity tracking devices, or new wearable sensors); MRV data (wifi data, campus maps, event data etc); as well as external data types (social media data, transportation data, weather, city data etc).

One of our goals is to work with MRV and MRU, in opening up repositories of information on campus that contain the data needed to discover valuable new insights about important topics such as wellness, innovation, learning, optimising services and sustainability. MRV is well positioned to take a leadership role in demonstrating not only how organizations can leverage data in the future, but how we collect, manage, and use personal information, from setting appropriate privacy policies to demonstrating systems that can implement it in practice.