Unlike many other technologies, IoT is significantly more complex, encompassing almost every branch of core engineering: Mechanical, Electronics, Firmware, Middleware, Cloud, Analytics, and Mobile. For each of its engineering layers, there are critical aspects of economics, standards, regulations, and the evolving state of the art. This course offers, for the first time, a modest yet comprehensive overview of all these critical aspects of IoT engineering.
Summary
An advanced training program covering the current state of the art in the Internet of Things.
It crosses multiple technology domains to develop awareness of an IoT system, its components, and how it can help businesses and organizations.
Includes live demos of model IoT applications to showcase practical IoT deployments across different industry domains, such as Industrial IoT, Smart Cities, Retail, Travel & Transportation, and use cases around connected devices & things.
Target Audience
Managers responsible for business and operational processes within their respective organizations who want to know how to harness IoT to make their systems and processes more efficient.
Entrepreneurs and Investors who are looking to build new ventures and want to develop a better understanding of the IoT technology landscape to see how they can leverage it in an effective manner.
Estimates for the Internet of Things or IoT market value are massive, since by definition the IoT is an integrated and diffused layer of devices, sensors, and computing power that overlays entire consumer, business-to-business, and government industries. The IoT will account for an increasingly huge number of connections: 1.9 billion devices today, and 9 billion by 2018. That year, it will be roughly equal to the number of smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, wearable computers, and PCs combined.
In the consumer space, many products and services have already crossed over into the IoT, including kitchen and home appliances, parking, RFID, lighting and heating products, and a number of applications in Industrial Internet.
However, the underlying technologies of IoT are nothing new as M2M communication existed since the birth of the Internet. However, what changed in the last couple of years is the emergence of a number of inexpensive wireless technologies added by the overwhelming adoption of smartphones and tablets in every home. Explosive growth of mobile devices led to present demand of IoT.
Due to unbounded opportunities in IoT business, a large number of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs jumped on the bandwagon of the IoT gold rush. Also due to the emergence of open source electronics and IoT platforms, the cost of development of an IoT system and further managing its sizable production is increasingly affordable. Existing electronic product owners are experiencing pressure to integrate their device with the Internet or a mobile app.
This training is intended for a technology and business review of an emerging industry so that IoT enthusiasts/entrepreneurs can grasp the basics of IoT technology and business.
Course Objective
The main objective of the course is to introduce emerging technological options, platforms, and case studies of IoT implementation in home & city automation (smart homes and cities), Industrial Internet, healthcare, Govt., Mobile Cellular, and other areas.
Basic introduction of all the elements of IoT: Mechanical, Electronics/sensor platform, Wireless and wireline protocols, Mobile to Electronics integration, Mobile to enterprise integration, Data-analytics, and Total control plane.
M2M Wireless protocols for IoT: WiFi, Zigbee/Zwave, Bluetooth, ANT+: When and where to use which one?
Mobile/Desktop/Web app for registration, data acquisition, and control – Available M2M data acquisition platforms for IoT – Xively, Omega, and NovoTech, etc.
Security issues and security solutions for IoT.
Open source/commercial electronics platforms for IoT: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Arm Mbed LPC, etc.
Open source/commercial enterprise cloud platforms for AWS-IoT apps, Azure-IoT, Watson-IoT cloud, in addition to other minor IoT clouds.
Studies of the business and technology of some of the common IoT devices like Home automation, Smoke alarm, vehicles, military, home health, etc.
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