Internet of Things Fundamentals

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Internet of Things (IoT) systems and provides the basis of this emerging field. Students will be able to describe the Internet and its evolution to the internet of things and explain how the IoT can be used to provide solutions in healthcare and business. In this course students will create Python programs on the Raspberry Pi to provide IoT functionality, use Packet Tracer to model Python-based IoT systems, describe the various systems that support a typical data center, explain how the Software Defined Networking (SDN) framework plays a key role in data center virtualization, recognize the steps of the Data Analysis Lifecycle and perform these tasks using the RapidMiner and RStudio data analytics tools.