Introduction:
- What is Internet of Things?
- IoT architectures
- Data collection (sensors, devices and APIs)
- Wireless standars for IoT indoors and outdoors
- Vertical and horizontal IoT platforms and how they are used
- Application layers now and in the future
- Business intelligence, business cases and opportunities with IoT within various verticals
- Tracking and positionering
About wireless communication
- How to transmit data without wires
- Radio basics (decibel, transceivers, frequency bands, regulation, carrier frequency, channel bandwidth, sensitivity, output power, antennas, how to understand data sheets, link budgets, propagation models, practical examples)
- Exercise
- Receivers, noise, interference and future outlook for wireless standards
Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN)
- What is LPWAN?
- Frequency bands
- Architectures, operators and characteristics for LPWAN
- LPWAN in licensed and unlicensed spectrum
-- Sigfox
-- LoRaWAN
-- NB-IoT and other cellular options
- Range and link budgets in LPWAN
- Exercise
- Energy consumption
- Mobility, tracking and positioning
- Exercise
- Future outlook for LPWAN
IoT standards for indoor environments
- What you connect indoors
- Wireless standards and frequency bands commonly used indoors
-- Wi-Fi
-- 802.15.4
-- Bluetooth
-- RFID
-- Proprietary technologies
-- Upcoming and future trends
- Exercise
- Trends and future outlook
Summary
- Vertical and horizontal IoT platforms
- Exercise
- Exercise