Course Outline

INTRODUCTION TO IOT

• What is IoT?
• Basics of IoT
• IoT in home automation
• IoT Industrial Applications
• How large is the IOT Market
• Latest updates in the IoT industry.
• Available IOT alliances details and the standards that are getting evolved
• Multiple IoT applications and solutions available in the market
• Multiple IoT platform (hardware) example Ras-pi, Arduino, NodeMcu, etc., comparison and usage

INTRODUCTION TO NODE MCU

• What is Node MCU?
• What is Open Source Microcontroller Platform?
• Node GPIO Pins
• Basics of Electronics.
• Sensors.

HANDS-ON WITH NODE MCU

• About Arduino IDE (Your First Arduino Sketch)
• First Program on Arduino IDE
• Digital Output as LED glow
• Digital Input Using Switch
• Control Output using Digital Input

SENSORS INTERFACING

• Serial Input & Serial Output
• Analog Input & Analog Output
• What are Sensors?
• Sensor Feature.
• Types of sensors
• Interfacing Sensor With Node Mcu
• Reading From Sensors

PWM

• Introduction to PWM
• PWM Hands-on-Practical

USING DIFFERENT SENSORS

• DHT 11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor
• Ultrasonic Sensor
• IR Sensor

WIFI MODULE

• Introduction to Esp8266
• Scanning WiFi Networks and connecting to WiFi Network

WEB SERVER

• Creating a Webserver using NodeMCU and ESP Module
• Connect with WiFi network
• Access the IP address assigned to ESP8266 and Node Mcu
• Creating a Web page and control Home Appliances through Wifi

IMPLEMENTATION OF IOT

• Create a local server using Node MCU
• What are Cloud Servers
• Cloud computing and IoT
• Popular Cloud Servers
• Cloud platform introduction
• Creating Channel for live data feed
• Program Node MCU to read and update sensor data over the cloud

THINGSPEAK APPS

• Creating an account on ThingSpeak
• Connect temperature and humidity sensor
• Continuously monitor sensor reading through internet
• Generate API and program Node MCU

CREATING TWITTER APP ON THINGSPEAK

• How to create apps on ThingSpeak?
• Create a twitter API
• Trigger an action of twitting through Node MCU
• Make ESP8266 and Node MCU to tweet the sensor value

BLYNK APP

• Installing Blynk Android App and creating an account
• Creating UI for controlling Home Appliance
• Controlling Home Appliance Using Blynk Android App

IFTTT – IF THIS THEN THAT

• Creating an account on IFTTT
• Creating Applets on IFTTT
• Controlling Home Appliance Using Google Assistant

ADAFRUIT IO

• MQTT protocol
• HTTP vs MQTT
• Creating Adafruit account
• Using Adafruit to read sensors value and send data to Node MCU

AMAZON AWS

• How to create an account on Amazon Aws and create EC2 Instance
• Installing Ubuntu Server on Aws Ec2 Instance
• Installing Apache Server and Php on Ubuntu
• Install and Configure MySql on Ubuntu
• Installing PHPMyAdmin
• Using Putty and FileZilla
• Using Elastic IP to make server IP static
• Login to Ubuntu Server Using Putty

MySQL

• Creating a MySql database and tables to store sensor values
• Creating MySql User authenticated with Password

PHP

• Introduction to Php and its Basic Syntax
• Creating API to read sensor data and send to Aws Cloud
• Creating API to send data to NodeMcu from Cloud

ESP8266 HTTP CLIENT

• Using Http Client to send sensor data to Aws Cloud
• Using HTTP Client to receive data from Cloud to Node MCU

Projects:

• Digital Input/output for Node MCU
• Analog Input/output for Node MCU
• Integrating Sensors & Reading Environmental Physical Values
• Using the IR sensor to detect the object.
• Using LDR
• PWM application to control LED Brightness
• Using Relay as an Electronic Switch
• Home Automation Project on a local and Live Server
• Create a localhost server
• Use Node MCU to upload free data from Environmental Sensors to Cloud Server.
• Automatically Tweet Sensor Data on Twitter.
• Control Home devices from the self-hosted webpage on Amazon AWS.
• Controlling Home Appliance using Google Assistant
• Calculating Distance using Ultrasonic Sensor
• Fetching Humidity and Temperature using DHT 11 Sensor
• Using ThingSpeak, Adafruit, and Blynk IoT Platforms.

COMPONENTS:

• NODE MCU V3 Development Board
• Micro USB Cable
• LED’s and 1k Resistors
• DHT 11 Sensor Module
• Ultrasonic Sensor
• Breadboard
• IR Sensor Module
• LDR
• 5V Relay Module
• Jumper Wires (Male to Female and Female to Female)

Test & Evaluation

Each lecture will have a quiz containing a set of multiple-choice questions. Apart from that, there will be a final test based on multiple-choice questions.

Your evaluation will include the overall scores achieved in each lecture quiz and the final test.