IOTOPEN1x

Course title: A Subjective Introduction to the IoT

Level: Introductory

Brief description: If you have no idea what is IoT and how to start your adventure with IoT, programming and networking, keep studying. This course is a painless introduction to IoT technology.

Full description:

This course covers an overview of selected IoT technologies, tools and methods. Firstly, you’ll find out what IoT is; then, we will guide you through the popular IoT hardware, including Arduino and Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32 System on Chips, sensors and actuators, and finally, through the introduction to networking. Right enough for now to let you understand IoT ideas, start programming and embrace IoT technology. Even configure your devices to talk to your home network and send data over MQTT to the cloud.

In detail, we discuss the genesis of the IoT deeply, enabling technologies that made IoT devices to hit over 20 billion devices to be interconnected by 2020. We also briefly review the popular scenarios extensively utilising IoT approaches and devices.

Once you get an IoT overview, it is time to step into the technical details. In the following part of the course, we will introduce you to the Arduino microcontrollers, Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32, and several popular sensors and actuators.

The following section is on microcontroller programming in the popular Arduino IDE.

Finally, we will introduce you to the IoT networking. This course uses a regular IP network with basic MQTT application protocol presentation. The course contains example codes in C++, usually “Hello World” style, including networking, communication with sensors and actuators and even short programming in C++ crash course.

What you will learn:

• Definition of IoT devices.
• Use cases and scenarios for IoT.
• IoT hardware, including Arduino and Espressif SoCs.
• IoT sensors and actuators, their connectivity and their programmatic control.
• Programming in C++ is general and specific for the SoCs, as mentioned earlier.
• IP networking principles for Espressif SoCs.

Course length and effort: About 6 weeks, 4-5 hours per week. Self-study model.

Prerequisites:

• Secondary school (high school) physics, algorithmic.
• An elementary understanding of computer networks, in particular, IP networking.

Downloads:

• IOTOPEN1x Course Structure Definition File
• IOTOPEN1x Learning Curve & Video Supplementary Package
• IOTOPEN1x Youtube Playlist

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IOTOPEN3x

Course title: Data Management, Data Security and Robot Operating System as a Common Tool for IoT

Level: Advanced

Brief description:

Data management and its security and privacy is an essential topic for IoT. The development of common solutions with the same vulnerabilities creates a new challenge! Open-source software allows source code development under community monitoring and fast reaction in case of a problem. Robot Operating System as a way to IoT data collection and control will be shown.

Full description:

If you are interested in home automation and connected devices, this course is for you. IoT security and privacy are a big challenge with increasingly connected devices. The authors will guide you through the guidelines and will show common vulnerabilities. After that part, you can make your work more secure.

There are many software solutions for IoT, and we’ll focus on the popular open-source framework OpenHAB. It provides an interface to connect and tune your device. The next tool for software development in the IoT field is the Robot Operating System. It’s a common framework for robot programming, but the unique IoTbridge tool bridges ROS and the OpenHAB Home-Automation system.

We are staying on the way to Web3 technologies, making peer-to-peer communication between devices possible. Now, the traffic between machines becomes more significant than the traffic generated by people. And direct routing between devices became reasonable in the sense of sustainability and economy of IoT solutions.

What you will learn:

• Security and privacy guidelines.
• Several cases of how to find and fix vulnerabilities.
• Robot Operating System programming introduction.
• IoT bridge library for device and software communication.
• OpenHAB as a common interface for home automatization and IoT.
• Peer-to-peer device communication.

Course length and effort: About 4 weeks, 4-5 hours per week. Self-study model.

Prerequisites:

• C++ or Python programming.
• Understanding of the basic programming for embedded systems, for example, ESP32.
• Knowledge of IP networking, wired and wireless communication, and higher-level protocols like HTTP.

Downloads:

• IOTOPEN3x Course Structure Definition File
• IOTOPEN3x Course Learning Curve & Video Supplementary Package
• IOTOPEN3x Youtube Playlist

How to apply?