Overview

Indicative content includes:

• Behind the buzzword, the 'what' and the 'why' of IoT.
• Architecture of an IoT deployment.
• Information at different scales, from single data points to sensor networks for big data.
• Looking at a range of communication options.
• Security, influences and impact.
• Exploring the server side, prototyping with open platforms.
• Prototyping devices with a network connection.
• Prototyping lower cost, low bandwidth, low power devices for scale.

Learning Outcomes

• Construct a server to act as a conduit between an IoT device and it's user.

• Contrast the costs, in time and effort, of securing IoT deployments.

• Differentiate methods of communications in an IoT deployment, and their possible pros/cons.

• Illustrate the processing flow of information from IoT devices to an end-user.

• Prototype simple IoT devices using common development boards.

• Understand the why and the what of Internet of Things [IoT]. Be able to describe a typical architecture for an IoT deployment.