Internet of Things

Abstract

This course will introduce and discuss the underlying concepts and mechanisms that drive wireless networks and the Internet of Things (IoT). The lectures provide you with the required knowledge, and the labs give you a hands-on experience in developing networking and applications in the Internet of Things and exploring their real-world challenges.

This course is primarily aimed at Master students.

Objectives

1. Knowledge and understanding: Show knowledge of basic concepts and challenges of wireless networking and the Internet of Things, low-power wireless communication, NFC, BLE and 802.15.4), IoT networking (RPL, TSCH, and Thread), Operating Systems for IoT, Security in IoT, and IoT Applications. Describe applications of the Internet of Things and the mechanisms these use to provide their services. Discuss and analyze the challenges and requirements that the different approaches have. Compare and summarize the strength and weaknesses associated with the individual mechanisms. 
2. Skills and abilities: Develop and evaluate small-scale wireless networks and IoT systems & applications using fundamental mechanisms introduced in the lectures. Demonstration of these software developments in advanced settings including unreliable wireless links and resource constraints (e.g., battery driven). 
3. Judgment and approach: Describe and analyze existing and new methods for IoT systems and application design. In particular, the system's ability for low-power wireless networking and operation under strong resource constraints. 

Contents:

Aim: What is the Internet of Things and its applications? How can we build reliable and resource efficient IoT systems and applications? How do its devices in the Internet of Things communicate? How do wireless networks work? These are a few questions that this course addresses. The goal of the courses is to understand the design of the Internet of Things and discuss the underlying principles and mechanisms. Our lectures provide you with the required fundamentals, and our labs give you a hands-on experience in developing IoT systems and applications and exploring their real-world challenges.

Content: We begin the course with an introduction to basic concepts of IoT Systems and Applications and the challenges they pose. We continue with the main course content and focus on:

• Wireless networking
• low-power wireless communication (NFC, BLE and 802.15.4)
• IoT networking (RPL, TSCH, and Thread)
• web-technologies for IoT such as COAP
• Operating Systems for IoT
• Security in IoT
• Selected IoT Applications

Our lectures provide students with the required fundamentals, and exercise and projects give students a hands-on experience in developing IoT systems & applications and exploring their real-world challenges. This course offers learning experiences that involve hands-on experimentation and analysis as they reinforce student understanding of concepts and their application to real-world problems. Overall, this course provides the students the ability to understand fundamental issues in the design of methods for IoT systems and applications.