Course Outline
Session 1: Business Overview of Why IoT is So Important
- Case studies from Nest, CISCO, and top industries
- IoT growth rate in North America and how companies are aligning their future business models and operations around IoT
- Broad-scale application areas
- The Smart Factory of 2020
- Industrial Internet
- Predictive and preventative maintenance of machines
- Tracking machine utilization and productivity
- Energy and cost optimization of manufacturing plants
- Business rule generation for IoT
- Three-layered architecture of Big Data: Physical (Sensors), Communication, and Data Intelligence
Session 2: Introduction to IoT: All About Sensors
- Basic function and architecture of a sensor: sensor body, mechanism, calibration, maintenance, cost and pricing structure, legacy and modern sensor networks: all the basics about sensors
- Development of sensor electronics: IoT vs. legacy, and open source vs. traditional PCB design styles
- Development of sensor communication protocols: from history to modern times. Legacy protocols like Modbus, relay, HART to modern-day Zigbee, Z-Wave, X10, Bluetooth, ANT, etc.
- Business drivers for sensor deployment: FDA/EPA regulations, fraud/tampering detection, supervision, quality control, and process management
- Different kinds of calibration techniques: manual, automation, infield, primary, and secondary calibration: and their implications in IoT
- Powering options for sensors: battery, solar, Witricity, mobile, and PoE
- Hands-on training with single silicon and other sensors such as temperature, pressure, vibration, magnetic field, power factor, etc.
Demo: Logging data from a temperature sensor
Session 3: Fundamentals of M2M Communication: Sensor Network and Wireless Protocols
- What is a sensor network? What is an ad-hoc network?
- Wireless vs. wireline networks
- WiFi: 802.11 families from N to S: application of standards and common vendors.
- Zigbee and Z-Wave: advantages of low-power mesh networking, long-distance Zigbee, introduction to different Zigbee chips.
- Bluetooth/BLE: low power vs. high power, detection speed, classes of BLE, introduction to Bluetooth vendors and their reviews.
- Creating networks with wireless protocols such as Piconet by BLE
- Protocol stacks and packet structures for BLE and Zigbee
- Other long-distance RF communication links
- LOS vs. NLOS links
- Capacity and throughput calculation
- Application issues in wireless protocols: power consumption, reliability, PER, QoS, LOS
- Sensor networks for WAN deployment using LPWAN. Comparison of various emerging protocols such as LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, etc.
- Hands-on training with sensor networks
Demo: Device control using BLE
Session 4: Review of Electronics Platform, Production, and Cost Projections
- PCB vs. FPGA vs. ASIC design: how to make the decision
- Prototyping electronics vs. production electronics
- QA certificates for IoT: CE/CSA/UL/IEC/RoHS/IP65: What are these and when are they needed?
- Basic introduction to multi-layer PCB design and its workflow
- Electronics reliability: basic concepts of FIT and early mortality rate
- Environmental and reliability testing: basic concepts
- Basic open source platforms: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone: when are they needed?
Session 5: Hardware/Protocol Elements of IIoT for Manufacturing
- State of the art and review of existing technology in the marketplace
- PLC: architecture
- Cloud integration of PLC data
- Visualization of PLC data
- Digital Twin
- PLC protocols (Modbus, Fieldbus, Profibus) and their integration with the Cloud
- Concept of Industrial Gateway
Session 6: Introduction to Mobile App Platform for IoT
- Protocol stack of mobile apps for IoT
- Mobile-to-server integration: what are the factors to look out for?
- What are the intelligent layers that can be introduced at the mobile app level?
- iBeacon in iOS
- Windows Azure
- Amazon AWS-IoT
- Web interfaces for mobile apps (REST/WebSockets)
- IoT application layer protocols (MQTT/CoAP)
- Security for IoT middleware: keys, tokens, and random password generation for authentication of gateway devices.
Demo: Mobile app for tracking IoT-enabled trash cans
Session 7: Machine Learning for Intelligent IIoT
- Introduction to machine learning
- Learning classification techniques
- Bayesian prediction: preparing training files
- Support Vector Machine
- Predicting machine failure: vibrational analysis
- Current signature analysis
- Time series data and prediction
Demo: Using KNN Algorithm for regression analysis
Demo: SVM-based classification for image and video analysis
Session 8: Analytic Engine for IIoT
- Insight analytics
- Visualization analytics
- Structured predictive analytics
- Unstructured predictive analytics
- Recommendation engine
- Pattern detection
- Root cause discovery for electrical failures in factories
- Root cause of machine failure
- Logistic supply chain analysis for manufacturing
Session 9: Security in IoT Implementation
- Why security is absolutely essential for IoT
- Mechanisms of security breaches in the IoT layer
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Fundamentals of network security
- Encryption and cryptography implementation for IoT data
- Security standards for available platforms
- European legislation for security in IoT platforms
- Secure booting
- Device authentication
- Firewalling and IPS
- Updates and patches
Session 10: Database Implementation for IoT Cloud
- SQL vs. NoSQL: Which one is good for your IoT application?
- Open source vs. licensed databases
- Available M2M cloud platforms
- Cassandra: Time Series Data
- MongoDB
- Siemens MindSphere
- GE Predix
- IBM Bluemix
- AWS IoT
Session 11: A Few Common IIoT Systems for Manufacturing
- Energy optimization in manufacturing
- Vibration analysis to build predictive maintenance
- Power quality analysis to build preventative maintenance
- Recommendation systems for logistic supply chains
- IIoT systems for industrial safety
- IIoT systems for asset identification
- IIoT systems for utilities in manufacturing plants (Chiller, Air Compressor, HVAC)
Demo: Retail, Transportation & Logistics use case for IoT
Session 12: Big Data for IoT
- 4V: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity of Big Data
- Why Big Data is important in IoT
- Big Data vs. legacy data in IoT
- Hadoop for IoT: when and why?
- Storage techniques for image, geospatial, and video data
- Distributed databases: Cassandra as an example
- Parallel computing basics for IoT
- Microservices architecture
Demo: Apache Spark
Requirements
Basic knowledge of business operations, devices, electronic systems, and data systems.
Basic understanding of software and systems.
Basic understanding of Statistics (at Excel level).
Testimonials (2)
The ability of the trainer to align the course with the requirements of the organization other than just providing the course for the sake of delivering it.
Masilonyane - Revenue Services Lesotho
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The oral skills and human side of the trainer (Augustin).