IISc has announced a free online course on Design for the Internet of Things. The course is intended for students who aspire to gain an insight and basic understanding of IoTs, design of smart objects that offer collaboration and explore a range of services.

The course is available on the NPTEL platform of SWAYAM. Students who enroll for the programme will be introduced to a step-by-step system design along with small video clips that will enable them to design prototypes.  

The course will be conducted by professor Prabhakar who is a Principal Research Scientist at the IISc, Bangalore. After successful completion of the course the candidates will be able to make the right decisions regarding hardware, software as well as protocols for the proposed application. 

Concepts that are included in this course are as such:  
Introduction to IoT: Definition, applications, challenges: unique ID, power, security, and location. Addressing the power challenge: RFID, energy harvesting, battery-based systems, and power management systems 

System design for low power: LDO, DC-DC converters, and low power software. Sensors and actuators: Temperature sensor, air quality, and Solenoid valves 

Power management algorithms, IoT protocols: MQTT, COAP, and Websockets with associated applications, Low power wireless technologies such as BLE, IEEE 802.15.4e, and Wi-Fi, Low power wire area technologies: NBIoT, CAT – LTE-M1, and LORA.

Eligibility:
The course is open to all participants who wish to learn about the IoT technology, it would be most beneficial for engineering students from Electrical engineering, Electronics and Communications engineering, Control and Instrumentation engineering, Computer science and Information science engineering. 

Course duration of the course is scheduled for 8 Weeks that is course starts from 26th July 2021 and to be completed by 17th September 2021