IOT For Beginners

IOT brings together knowledge previously available only in white papers, standards documents, and other hard-to-find sources—or nowhere at all. The authors begin with a high-level overview of IoT and introduce key concepts needed to successfully design IoT solutions.

Objectives:

• Introduction to IoT and its relation to cloud computing.  
• IoT Fundamentals and open source cloud platform to store data. 
• Using Arduino, Node MCU for developing prototypes. 
• Connect your device to the cloud 
• Sensors and Actuators
• MQTT protocol 
• Hosting your own server on AWS 
• Hands-on exercises on the various use cases

Content:

• Day 1: Introduction & Getting Started with Arduino 
• Introduction to the Internet of Things.
• The Internet of Things.
• The Basics of Sensors & Actuators.
• Introduction to Cloud Computing.
• The Arduino Platform.
• The Arduino Open-Microcontroller Platform.
• Arduino Basics. Arduino Board Layout & Architecture.
• Hands-on Arduino.
• Interfacing and configuration of LED, Buzzer and switches.
• Working with digital pins.
• Working with analog pins.
• Configuring ADC, potentiometers, serial communication, I2C interface for display.
• Day 2: Introduction to ESP8266 and Node MCU 
• ESP8266 and Node MCU.
• Node MCU Configuration.
• Using Arduino IDE for coding NodeMCU.
• Node MCU, Sensor, Actuator and Communication module interfacing HTML basics, HTTP protocol concepts.
• Hands-on Node MCU. 
• Sensors and actuators interfacing.
• Moisture, Light, Flame, Temperature & Humidity, IR, PIR, Gas, Piezo Vibration, and Sound sensors, 3 axis accelerometers Actuators, GPS/GSM interfacing with Node MCU.
• Configuring Node MCU as local webserver.
• Web server using Node MCU.
• Server / Client model configuration.
• Day 3: Establish Cloud connections using MQTT protocol. 
• Introduction to MQTT & Communication protocol for IoT.
• Understanding MQTT. 
•  Difference between HTTP & MQTT.
• Understanding MQTT Broker.
• Understating Publish & Subscribe Methods.
• Hands-on MQTT and NodeMCU.
• Analyzing sensor data and controlling actuators using HTTP protocol remotely.
• Connect NodeMCU to the cloud.
• Data stream through Firebase and NodeMCU.