IoT Introduction and Fundamentals

1. Explain the technological trends which have led to IoT

2. Explain the potential of IoT in transforming businesses and customer use cases
3. Discuss key application areas of IoT such as remote monitoring, asset tracking,
production optimization, predictive maintenance and the development of new
products and services
4. Generate ideas to develop solutions for industry-specific business cases

1. Explain the advantages of deploying an IoT solution

2. Explain the challenges faced during deployment of an IoT Solution
3. Understanding of tradeoff between advantages and Challenges while giving an IoT
solution

1. Discuss the applications of various components used in IoT solutions (such as

sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, circuit boards, embedded chips, gateways, DSP,
data transmission and data analysis
2. Explain basic electronic designs of components used in IoT solutions
3. Discuss the fundamental structures and flows within IoT solution architecture

1. Understanding packaging and power constraints for IoT Implementation

2. Calculation of power requirements

Sensors, Actuators, Interfaces

1. Understanding of Sensor types, Signal types, shape and strength

2. Ability to appropriate the usage of sensor types for Range, throughput and Scale

1. Explain Sensor non-idealities and how to deal with the parameters like sensitivity,
offset drift, noise, minimum detectable signal, non-linearity while giving an IoT
Solution

1. Understanding of Read-Out Circuits:Instrumentation-amplifier, SNR definition,

noise-bandwidth-power tradeoff

1. Understanding Circuit Component mismatch and mitigation techniques

1. Understand the examples of Actuators and MEMS, Smart Objects ?, SANETs, WSNs
for pollution monitoring, intrusion detection and more

Networking and Security in IoT

1. Understand Communication Networks, Challenges in Networking of IoT Nodes

1. Understanding one M2M IoT Standardized Architecture

2. Understanding IoT World Forum (IoTWF) Standardized architecture
3. Explain MAC Protocols for M2M Communications

1. Understanding of Node Cardinality Estimation in M2M Networks, Information-

Centric Networking for the IoT, Standards for the IoT

1. Understanding the emerging world of LPWANs

2. Explain LoRaWAN
3. Understanding of LoRa Radio fundamentals
4. Explain 5G Cellular Networks ad 5G IoT Communications on LPWANs
1. Ability to implement IoT Security and Privacy using MQTT Protocol, Publisher and
Subscriber Model

Communication and Security in IoT

1. Understanding of Wireless communication for IoT: channel models, power budgets,

data rates

1. Explain Compression and efficient data transmission

1. Understanding of SDR-based gateway for IoT and M2M applications

1. Explain Physical and network layer protocols for IoT systems

1. Understanding of Security aspects for IoT during wireles communications - Physical

and cross-layer interaction

IoT Introduction and Fundamentals

Applications where IoT can be deployed

Benefits/Challenges of deploying an IoT

IoT Components: Sensors, front-end electronics (amplifiers, filtering, digitization), digital

signal processing, data transmission, choice of channel (wired/wireless), back-end data
analysis.

Understanding packaging and power constraints for IoT Implementation

Sensors, Actuators, Interfaces

Sensors: types, Signal Types, shape and Strength

Sensor non-idealities: Sensitivity and Offset drift, noise, minimum detectable signal, non-
linearity

Read-out circuits: Instrumentation-amplifier, SNR definition, noise-bandwidth-power tradeoff

Circuit component mismatch and mitigation techniques (Calibration, Chopping, autozeroing

etc)
Examples of gas and MEMS sensors for pollution monitorning, intrusion detection,
preventive maintenance etc.

Networking and Security in IoT

Communication Networks, Challenges in Networking of IoT Nodes

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and IoT Technology Fundamentals, Medium Access Control

(MAC) Protocols for M2M Communications

Node Cardinality Estimation in M2M Networks, Information-Centric Networking for the IoT,
Standards for the IoT

5G Cellular Networks and 5G IoT Communications, Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN)

IoT Security and Privacy, MQTT Protocol, Publisher and Subscriber Model

Communication and Security in IoT

Wireless communication for IoT: channel models, power budgets, data rates

Compression and efficient data transmission

Software radio paradigm for communications

Physical and network layer protocols for IoT systems

Security aspects for IoT: physical and cross-layer interaction