Unit 1 Introduction to Internet of Things

8 lecture hours

• Definition and key characteristics of IoT, challenges in IoT adoption
• evolution and enabling technologies
• applications across domains such as smart homes
• agriculture, and industry
• comparison between IoT, M2M, CPS, and WSN
• IoT reference architectures including 3-layer and 5-layer models

Unit 2 Sensors and Actuators

8 lecture hours

• Overview of sensors
• gateways, and edge devices
• types of sensors and their working principles
• characteristics and requirements of constrained nodes in IoT environments

Unit 3 IoT Hardware and Platforms

8 lecture hours

• Architecture and features of microcontrollers and microprocessors (ESP8266
• Arduino Uno, Raspberry Pi, NodeMCU)
• Arduino architecture and programming using Arduino IDE with sensor and module interfacing
• Raspberry Pi architecture and application development
• NodeMCU programming and use in IoT systems

Unit 4 IoT Protocols

• Wired and wireless communication technologies
• application layer protocols like HTTP
• CoAP, and link-layer protocols such as LoRa
• Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi
• network layer protocols including IPv4
• device discovery and addressing mechanisms. 8 Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Subject Code: BE04045021 Subject Name: Fundamental of IoT

Unit 5 Cloud for IoT

8 lecture hours

• Role of cloud computing in IoT, cloud architecture for IoT systems
• IoT data storage and processing
• cloud-based communication models
• integration with platforms like ThingSpeak
• AWS IoT, Blynk
• scalability and reliability
• security and privacy in cloud-enabled IoT

Unit 6 IoT Security

5 lecture hours

• Security challenges in IoT
• data confidentiality
• integrity, and availability
• lightweight cryptography
• authentication and access control
• secure communication protocols