Course Outline

1. Basics of Electronic Designs
   • ADCs/DACs, PVM and Voltage Dividers
2. Basics of Networking
   • Understanding the OSI model and the seven abstraction layers.
   • Networking and TCP/IP.
3. SDN Architecture
   • Control and Management plane improvements with SDN
   • Openness
   • Network Automation and Virtualization
   • SDN and OpenStack
   • ONOS SDN Controllers
   • Applications and APIs
   • Protocols
4. Arduino and Raspberry Pi Programming
5. *Introduction to the Internet of Things
   • IoT and its importance
   • Elements of an IoT ecosystem
   • Technology and business drivers
   • IoT applications, trends and implications.
6. Sensors and sensor nodes
   • Sensing components and devices.
   • Sensor modules, nodes, motes and systems.
7. Connectivity and networks
   • Wireless technologies for the IoT.
   • Edge connectivity and protocols.
   • Wireless sensor networks 
8. IoT lab exercises
   • Local processing on the sensor nodes.
   • Connecting devices at the edge and to the cloud.
   • Processing data offline and in the cloud.