1. Course Title |
Mobile Sensor Systems and Ambient Intelligence |
2. Code |
4ФЕИТ07Л008 |
3. Study program |
КТИ |
4. Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) |
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies |
5. Degree (first, second, third cycle) |
First cycle |
6. Academic year/semester |
IV/8 |
7. Number of ECTS credits |
6 |
8. Lecturer |
D-r Hristijan Gjoreski |
9. Course Prerequisites |
Passed: Data Structures and Programming, Programming and Algorithms |
10. Course Goals (acquired competencies): Introduction to the concept of mobile sensor systems and their use in everyday life, wearable sensors, smart devices, ambient intelligence. With this course, the student will gain knowledge about the practical use of tools and techniques for working with mobile sensory data. That is, collecting data, processing them, and building appropriate models. |
11. Course Syllabus: Introduction to mobile sensor systems, smart devices, smart systems, wearable sensors. Smartphone and Smartwatch sensors. Introduction to the concept of Ambient Intelligence and its applications, such as human activity recognition, automatic fall detection, calorie estimation. Sensors, sensors data, data fusion, data analysis, statistical modeling. Practical development of a smartphone sensor application, including data collection, data analysis, model development. |
12. Learning methods: Lectures, auditory and laboratory exercises, independent learning, independent work on project tasks and preparation of seminar papers |
13. Total number of course hours |
2 + 2 + 1 + 0 |
14. Distribution of course hours |
180 |
15. Forms of teaching |
15.1. Lectures-theoretical teaching |
30 |
15.2. Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork |
45 |
16. Other course activities |
16.1. Projects, seminar papers |
45 |
16.2. Individual tasks |
20 |
16.3. Homework and self-learning |
40 |
17. Grading |
17.1. Exams |
0 |
17.2. Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) |
40 |
17.3. Activity and participation |
20 |
17.4. Final exam |
40 |
Grading criteria (points) |
up to 50 points |
5 (five) (F) |
from 51to 60 points |
6 (six) (E) |
from 61to 70 points |
7 (seven) (D) |
from 71to 80 points |
8 (eight) (C) |
from 81to 90 points |
9 (nine) (B) |
from 91to 100 points |
10 (ten) (A) |
19. Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam |
Practical (laboratory) exercises and finished project |
20. Forms of assessment |
Partial exam during the semester lasting 120 minutes or one final written exam in the appropriate exam session lasting 120 minutes. Evaluation of laboratory exercises. Project assignment that will be evaluated. |
21. Language |
Macedonian and English |
22. Method of monitoring of teaching quality |
Internal evaluation and surveys |
23. Literature |
23.2. Additional Literature |
No. |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year |
1 |
Werner Weber, Jan Rabaey, Emile H.L. Aarts |
Ambient Intelligence |
Springer |
2005 |
2 |
Manish J. Gajjar |
Mobile Sensors and Context-Aware Computing |
Morgan Kaufmann |
2015 |
3 |
Mark Weiser |
. The Computer for the 21th Century |
Scientific American |
1991 |