| 1. | Course Title | System Design Concepts for the Internet of Things | |||||||||||
| 2. | Code | 4ФЕИТ07006 | |||||||||||
| 3. | Study program | 20-IMSA, 21-PNMI, 8-KM-INN | |||||||||||
| 4. | Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) | Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies | |||||||||||
| 5. | Degree (first, second, third cycle) | Second cycle | |||||||||||
| 6. | Academic year/semester | I/1 | 7. | Number of ECTS credits | 6.00 | ||||||||
| 8. | Lecturer | Dr Marija Kalendar | |||||||||||
| 9. | Course Prerequisites | ||||||||||||
| 10. | Course Goals (acquired competencies):
The aims of the course include learning the process of system design, with special focus on IoT system design considering all elements, design and evaluation of the prototype solutions. Upon successful completion of the module, the students are able to make informed design decisions for the development of complete IoT systems including devices and applications. They will be able to evaluate, compare and apply different platforms, algorithms, protocols and system architectures for IoT applications, considering sensing, computation, communication and energy aspects. Students will be able to apply the learned design methodologies, algorithms and protocols to develop new applications in many domains. They will have competences for criitical reflection on the societal impact of the IoT together with safety, security and privacy aspects. Students will be able to practice team work through the entire development cycle, from system specification to constructing a prototype and system implementation. |
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| 11. | Course Syllabus:
System design concepts. Specific design concepts for the IoT. Development of prototypes representing minimum viable products. Development environments for embedded software. Early evaluation of product’s potential. Evaluation of concept ideas and prototypes considering design choices compared to the user experience, suitability of the technical solutions and potential for further development into complete IoT products or additional prototype development needs. Short review of embedded and cyber-physical systems and the IoT; Application scenarios for IoT; Design and modeling of embedded platforms; Resource aware programming, hardware programming, developing multi-threaded software; Inter-process communication with shared memory and message passing; Programming using real time operating systems; Fault detection and testing, and fault tolerance and fault recovery. Connecting IoT devices and gathering data: traditional and cloud platforms; reference architectures for the IoT (warehouse architectures, cloud-based architectures, and edge computing); processing large data sets; IoT and the cloud; Architectures of distributed systems; Distributed IoT-based systems, middleware and methods for system integration; communication frameworks and protocols; consumer-producer and publisher-subscriber communication patterns; Energy supply and constraints; quality characteristics and metrics for IoT-based system architectures, including energy efficiency; Basic elements for implementing security and privacy concepts for IoT-based systems; software design patterns for dependable systems; system simulation and validation; application examples for various industries. |
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| 12. | Learning methods:
Lectures, independent work on course project tasks and preparation of seminar papers. |
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| 13. | Total number of course hours | 180 | |||||||||||
| 14. | Distribution of course hours | 3 + 3 | |||||||||||
| 15. | Forms of teaching | 15.1 | Lectures-theoretical teaching | 45 hours | |||||||||
| 15.2 | Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork | 45 hours | |||||||||||
| 16. | Other course activities | 16.1 | Projects, seminar papers | 30 hours | |||||||||
| 16.2 | Individual tasks | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 16.3 | Homework and self-learning | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 17. | Grading | ||||||||||||
| 17.1 | Exams | 0 points | |||||||||||
| 17.2 | Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) | 50 points | |||||||||||
| 17.3. | Activity and participation | 0 points | |||||||||||
| 17.4. | Final exam | 50 points | |||||||||||
| 18. | Grading criteria (points) | up to 50 points | 5 (five) (F) | ||||||||||
| from 51 to 60 points | 6 (six) (E) | ||||||||||||
| from 61 to 70 points | 7 (seven) (D) | ||||||||||||
| from 71 to 80 points | 8 (eight) (C) | ||||||||||||
| from 81 to 90 points | 9 (nine) (B) | ||||||||||||
| from 91 to 100 points | 10 (ten) (A) | ||||||||||||
| 19. | Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam | 60% success from all curriculum activities | |||||||||||
| 20. | Forms of assessment | The exam consists of two parts (Can be completed as two partial exams): First partial exam – theoretical part: Test questions and problems (70 min) and Second partial exam – practical part: Finishing and presenting an independent practical project. The use of books, scripts, manuscripts or notes is partially allowed during the exam, but the use of calculators, mobile phones, tablets or any other electronic devices is not allowed. | |||||||||||
| 21. | Language | Macedonian and English | |||||||||||
| 22. | Method of monitoring of teaching quality | Self-evaluation | |||||||||||
| 23. | Literature | ||||||||||||
| 23.1. | Required Literature | ||||||||||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | |||||||||
| 1. | McEwen, Adrian, and Hakim Cassimally | Designing the internet of things. | John Wiley & Sons, | 2013 | |||||||||
| 2. | A.James, A. Seth, S. C. Mukhopadhyay | IoT System Design: Project Based Approach | Springer | 2021 | |||||||||
| 3. | Perry Lea | Internet of Things for Architects: Architecting IoT solutions by implementing sensors, communication infrastructure, edge computing, analytics, and security | Packt Publishing | 2018 | |||||||||
| 23.2. | Additional Literature | ||||||||||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | |||||||||
| 1. | Anderson, Ross | Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, 3rd Edition | John Wiley & Sons | 2020 | |||||||||
| 2. | Bass, Len, Clements, Paul & Kazman, Rick | Software architecture in practice, 3. ed. | Addison-Wesley | 2012 | |||||||||
| 3. | Vermesan, Ovidiu, and Peter Friess | Internet of things – from research and innovation to market deployment | River Publishers | 2014 | |||||||||
