Internet of Things: Protocols and Networks

This module focuses on the protocols and networking for IoT and wireless sensor networks. Students will be introducedto networking, frameworks, application protocols, data representations, security and the tools used to connect devices to the Internet of Things. Some of the networks this module will cover include ZigBee, Sigfox, LoRA, NB-IoT, LTE-M, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Wifi. The students will also be exposed to the underlying routing protocol for IoT and wireless networks -- RPL, the IoT network stack i.e., Thread, application level protocol i.e., CoAP (HTTP equivalent) and IoT network architectures. The students will be required to build an IoT network application based on the topics learnt in this module.