In order to make more effective use of scientific research instrument resources and enhance regional scientific and technological innovation capabilities, the application of IoT current sensing technology to transform regional scientific research instrument sharing platforms was conducted. The overall architecture revolved around the collection, storage, analysis, and application of current data for scientific research instruments. Based on accumulated operating current data, the real runtime of instrument with high confidence was approached, through pre-processing by dividing the box, extracting features, and establishing instrument operation status recognition model. For the sake of strengthening the mining and utilization of IoT runtime data, diversified application scenarios of scientific research instrument sharing platforms were explored based on IoT technology from this standpoint such as instrument assessment, intelligent management, resource allocation, supply and demand docking.