Electronics and security

Fundamentals of electronics for IT needs: definition of basic quantities, Ohm's law, serial and parallel arrangement of resistors, overview of basic methods of solving linear circuits, volt divider, principles of safety of work with electric current.

Basics of technical measurements and data processing

Design and preparation of measurements. Accuracy and optimization of measurements, processing of measured values. Errors, resp. measurement uncertainty. Regression methods, interpolation, etc.

Sensors and their physical principles, basic aspects of data transfer between devices

Principles of converters of physical quantities, the most frequently used sensors in technical practice: temperature measurement, pressure measurement, flow measurement, concentration measurement, etc. Contact and contactless sensors, signal transmission methods - hardware interfaces, measurement with remote access: Wi-fi, RF, GSM and other transmission methods.

DAQ systems

Design of measuring chain and its components for ASSD - automated data collection systems. Communication of DAQ systems with control systems / DCS - Distributed Control System / and their typical implementations.

Microcontrollers

Typical architecture and basic elements of microcontrollers, types of memories, interactions with analog and digital signals, low-level programming of microcontrollers in C, creation of drivers, work with interrupts, treatment of parallel processing of processes, development tools.

Communication protocols and technology

An overview of the most commonly used communication protocols and technologies in IoT (eg Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth LE, MQTT, AMQP, COAP). Basic principles of protocol operation, typical examples of use, software support for protocol implementation.

IoT Node

Requirements for IoT Node (energy consumption, wired / wireless data transmission, security, ...), typical architectural solution IoT Node, HW requirements.

IoT Node programming

An overview of the most commonly used programming languages for IoT Node programming, basics of Python programming language, introduction to typical representatives of microcomputers used in hobby tasks such as IoT Node, interaction with digital signals, connection of IoT Node with the outside world.

IoT Node communication with the cloud

Architectural solution of IoT Node communication with the cloud, presentation of various approaches, including their strengths and weaknesses.

IoT communication networks

Basic principles of operation and limitations of LoRa networks, SigFox, examples of the use of individual networks in practice.

Overview of IoT platforms

Introduction to selected platforms for IoT, such as MS Azure, IBM Bluemix and others.

IoT for hobby purposes vs. industrial use

Differences at the level of solution architecture, HW, SW, communication protocols, security, etc.