IOT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES M - Z

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff: Vincenzo CATANIA and Davide PATTI
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: ING-INF/05 - Information processing systems
Taught classes: 35 hours
Exercise: 15 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

Knowing the IoT paradigm. Ability in programming a microcontroller-based system. Ability in programming hardware/software hybrid systems by means of the arduino platform. Having a basic knowledge on FPGA implementation. Knowing the issues and the solutions related to the interfacing with the physical world. Knowing of the issues related to the virtualization and the operating systems in the context of IoT.

Knowledge and understanding

The student will be able to re-elaborate what is presented with respect to each of the elements of an IoT system in order to integrate the different components in order to create a complex system that interacts with the surrounding environment with respect to a set of design requirements.

Applied knowledge and understanding

The student will be able to apply theoretical notions in a laboratory environment in which to personally experience the criticalities that occur when the theoretical notions about the various components are applied to real components.

Making Judgements

Development of autonomous judgment skills to evaluate the feasibility of IoT architectures

Communication Skills

Development of communication skills to represent the salient features of an IoT system

Learning Skills

Being able to use the knowledge and skills learned to design IoT systems


Course Structure

Lectures and laboratory exercises. If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced in order to comply the planned program and reported in the syllabus.


Detailed Course Content

Internet of Things e scenari applicativi

  • Smart Objects and the Internet of Things: Overview & Principles
  • Making sense of IoT

IoT enabling technologies and protocols

  • Architetture per l’IoT
  • IoT Building Blocks
    • Identificazione
    • Sensing
    • Comunicazione
    • Computazione
    • Servizi
    • Semantica
  • Protocolli per l’IoT: REST, CoAP.

Microcontrollori

  • Tassonomia
  • Generalità sui microcontrollori
  • CPU di un microcontrollore: modelli architetturali e repertorio di istruzioni.
  • Interfacciamento con il mondo fisico
    • Problematiche e modelli operativi
    • ADC e DAC
    • Gestione dell’I/O: Memory-Mapped I/O, Programmed I/O, Interrupts, Direct Memory Access
    • Periferiche: porte di I/O e loro programmazione, clock, timer
    • Protocolli di comunicazione wired: UART/USART, SPI, I2C.

Microcontrollori per l’IoT & sistemi di prototipazione

  • Principi dell'Open Hardware e piattaforme di prototipazione
  • La piattaforma Arduino
    • Input digitali e analogici semplici
    • Ricavare input dai sensori
    • Output visivo e audio
    • Controllare dispositivi esterni in remoto
    • Comunicare utilizzando Seriale, I2C e SPI
  • Hands-on (Lab)

Textbook Information

  1. Ovidiu Vermesan and Peter Friess. Building the Hyperconnected Society IoT Research and Innovation Value Chains, Ecosystems and Markets. River Publishers Series in Communications.
  2. Making sense of IoT - How the Internet of Things became humanity’s nervous system By Kevin Ashton.
  3. Introduction to Microcontrollers, Gunther Gridling, Bettina Weiss, Version 1.4
  4. Michael Margolis. Arduino. Progetti e soluzioni. Tecniche Nuove.
  5. Materiale fornito dal docente sotto forma di slides, dispense, e risorse online.