The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a simple framework to control
online devices easily. IoT is now a commonplace tool used by technology
companies but is rarely used in biology experiments. IoT can benefit cloud
biology research through alarm notifications, automation, and the real-time
monitoring of experiments. We developed an IoT architecture to control
biological devices and implemented it in lab experiments. Lab devices for
electrophysiology, microscopy, and microfluidics were created from the ground up
to be part of a unified IoT architecture. The system allows each device to be
monitored and controlled from an online web tool. We present our IoT
architecture so other labs can replicate it for their own experiments.