With more than 30 Billion connected devices expected by the end of 2020, the Internet of Things (IoT) is radically changing the technological landscape. Application opportunities are endless, such as home automation, healthcare, predictive maintenance, agriculture, energy management, and transportation.
SMART short course: Introduction to Internet of Things
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Online
This course offers an introduction to the IoT covering not only the theoretical background and current usages, but also providing practical knowledge through hands-on tutorials and workshops. Students will gain expertise on the whole IoT process.
All successful participants will receive two UOW credit points.
Course date: September 14 to September 25. This course will run over two weeks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 3.30pm to 7pm
Format: Mix delivery online real time + on-demand recordings
Cost: $1800
Introductory course: introducing concepts, methods or tools to relevant students or professionals
Available discounts:
- 20% off for students
- 10% off for UOW Staff and registered Alumni. Register as UOW alumnus
Special discounts are available if you want to book two or more courses, or if you have a group booking of 10 or more. To discuss please contact Lynda Hezemans at lhezeman@uow.edu.au
The 21-hour (6 sessions, 3 days total) course will include:
- Real-time theory lectures
- Breaks where teachers will be live if people wants to discuss and ask questions
- On-demand workshops, so participants can access at their own pace
- Real-time Q&As
Session 1 + 2 — What is the Internet of Things and why should we care?
- Introduction
- Defining the Internet of Things: history, technologies, trends, impacts, and business opportunities
- IoT networks, protocols and interoperability
- Introduction to sensors
- Introduction to IoT development kits: Arduino, LoPy, Raspberry Pi
- A first experiment: Building your first sensor and visualize data
Session 3 + 4 — LoRaWAN and The Things Network
- Achieving Long Range and Low Power data transmission
- LoRaWAN Architecture
- The Things Network – A free to use and open LoRaWAN network
- Tutorial/Workshop: Connecting your sensors to The Things Network
- Managing payloads: Encoding and decoding messages
- Tutorial: Connecting your sensor to the cloud and building your first dashboard with Cayenne
Session 5 + 6 — Dashboards and building advanced applications
- Publishing data: MQTT
- Tutorial/Workshop: Graphically build your IoT Application with Node-Red
- Real-world applications (SMART Pedestrians, SMART Storm waterways management)
- Hackathon session
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Understand the Internet of Things and its applications
- Discover hardware for the Internet of Things
- Know the different network protocols for the Internet of things
- Have extended knowledge on LoRaWAN
- Deploy and connect sensors to the Things Network
- Build IoT applications
Course Pre-requisite
- Basic knowledge of Computer Science and programming is preferred but not required.