CEC Semester Nine 2016

This class will show participants how to modify the RPi LED flasher built in the Day 1 class to work with the dweet.io cloud website. Specific dweet.io details on programming scripts and URL resources will be explored.

Course participants will be introduced to the state of the Internet of Things with respect to microcontroller-based development platforms like the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. This kickoff session will instruct attendees on building a RPi LED...

Now that our code is written, we will need to test and debug it. In this final class, we will see how the debugger works with the RTOS to provide task-level debugging. The finished code will be available to help course students follow along and...

In this penultimate class, we will take what we learned so far and define the tasks of our project. We will look at some simple "lightweight" elements that we may choose for our project, such as messaging, events, semaphores, and mutexes.

A common challenge of RTOS implementations is their limitation to certain chips, development boards, and toolchains. We will bring up our initial solution using the STM32F100 board and then look at how we will have to modify the code to work with...

Our toolset will be an important part of making our project successful. We will install and investigate these tools, followed by learning how to set them up, consisting of the STMicro STM32 Nucleo and the Atollic TrueStudio IDE, in tandem with the...

In this leadoff class, we will review the basics of how a task-switching RTOS operates and the design criteria we need to begin our hands-on design project. We will look at the freeRTOS real-time operating system and the elements that we will be...

One of the most important statistical techniques used in analyzing IoT data is machine learning. In this final class, we will discuss some important techniques, such as support vector machines and unsupervised learning. An understanding of the...

Now that the things have been deployed, and the data communicated and stored, we need to analyze. We will look at some examples of how this analysis is performed and used. These examples will include analysis with feedback (i.e., higher level...

Generating and communicating data is great, but we need to have somewhere to keep it. In the current environment, the perfect place is the cloud. This is where most IoT data will go and where it will be analyzed. The cloud provides ease of access...