Principles and Applications of the Internet of Things 2024

Principles and Applications of the IoT covers the following topics:

Course Content

• Internet-of-Things
  • Introduction, fundamental properties, types of applications, types of devices, system architecture
  • Business centered approach: From ‘connecting things’ to ‘taking actions’.
• Resource-constrained devices
  • Embedded systems, MEMS sensors (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems)
• Communication Basics
  • Layering, accessing resources through the Internet (IP/TCP/HTTP)
• Connecting Resource-Constrained Devices to the Internet
  • Wireless Sensor Networks with Gateways, Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
• Service Platforms (Cloud)
  • Processing and storage, databases, visualization, device management
• Personal Networks
  • Connecting devices to your smartphone: Bluetooth Low Energy
• Smart Commercial Buildings
  • Challenges and selected technologies: WiFi, Thread, Bluetooth Mesh
• Smart Factories
  • Challenges and selected technologies: Real-time Ethernet, Time Sensitive Networks (TSN), 5G, OPC-UA
• Smart Cities and precision farming
  • Challenges and selected technologies: LoRaWAN, NB-IoT (Narrow Band-IoT), Sub-GHz technologies
• IT-Security in the context of IoT
  • Threats and countermeasures

• Wireless communication Basics
• Wireless LAN connectivity
• Structuring and accessing data: CoAP, MQTT, connecting Sensors to a database and visualization
• Industrial IoT and OPC-UA
  
• IoT Security: Threat modelling

The course language is English. Target audience are BSc students in the last year from degree programs other than IT and ET.