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• Multiple Choice Objective Questions
• A total of 125 questions
• Exam Code: RCT-002
• Pass Percentage: 70%
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Module 1: IoT Concepts

• Understand why IoT is becoming a disruptive technology.
• Understand what kind of technological growth is required to realize the potential of Internet of Things.
• Explore about the kind of infrastructure we require to sustain growing demands for wireless and high-capacity networks.
• Analyze how a chip, sensor, detector or an IP address is capable of connecting several devices to create independent automated systems.
• Understand how real-world things connected over a network can be transformed into smart interactive objects.
• Learn how integration with the IFTTT platform can give access to as many as 600 applets and program Google Home to perform jobs.
• Learn Alexa’s built-in capabilities and how to make request to Alexa’s skills to perform certain specific functions for you.
• Understand how IoT will lead to proliferation of new generation smart devices for healthcare, automated cars, manufacturing, supply-chain management, smart cities, smart-homes etc.
• Identify the 3 major technology areas that would help in the growth of IoT.
• Understand the changing scenario of businesses with explosion of collected data.
• Analyse what are the typical IT skill sets required to make Internet of Things prosper into a mainstream technology?
• Understand the strategies that companies should adopt for IoT.
• Explore IoT programming boards: Know how to enjoy working with Arduino UNO board using Android app:
• Get acquainted with Arduino UNO board.
• Know how to set up a circuit system of an Arduino UNO board.
• Know how to upload codes in an Arduino UNO board to make an LED blink.

Module 2: Infrastructure for IoT

• Understand the major components of the IoT infrastructure hardware.
• Illustrate and explain the schematic diagram of the electrical and mechanical components of the IoT infrastructure.
• Highlight the importance of sensors and actuators in IoT.
• Analyze how the printed circuit board helps IoT become the “infrastructure of the information society”.
• Identify the things to remember before designing the PCB for IoT.
• Deduce how designing for IoT is different.
• Enumerate the benefits of rapid prototyping for IoT development.
• Identify the relationship between IoT and Quality.
• Learn about the User Experience (UX) for IoT:
• Explain different aspects of experience design for connected products.
• Understand how to use a potentiometer to control the timing of a blinking LED by reading a sensor.

Module 3: IoT Network Architecture and Design

• Understand why IoT architectural drivers are the basis of system designs.
• Understand the four categories of architectural drivers.
• Understand how architectural drivers of an IoT system works.
• Explore how oneM2M IoT standardized architecture allows a number of devices to be seamlessly connected with one other in the IoT ecosystem.
• Identify major elements of M2M technology such as Wi-Fi, sensors, RFID, cellular communication link, and computing software.
• Understand the effectiveness of Wi-fi technology for AMR and management system in intelligent buildings and smart home.
• Identify the role of sensors in IoT devices for collecting real-time data from its surrounding and the role of actuators for giving out data to its surrounding.
• Understand how Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology works.
• Understand how a mobile network is helpful for transmission of voice and data over a network.
• Identify the basic three-layer architecture comprising of the application, service and the network layers.
• Appreciate the design of the application, service and the network layers and how one supports the other in an IoT communication system.
• Understand the standard IoT reference model proposed by the World Forum and how it functions with seven levels.
• Analyze why the layer of computing at the edge of the network is called Fog computing.
• Understand that despite a standard IoT Reference Model, applications vary based on vertical markets, the nature of device data, and business needs.
• Explore the four-fold IoT architectural reference model.
• Understand standard-based open architecture Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) used for Industrial Internet Systems.
• Understand detailed description of the IoT functional stack and the factors to be considered before choosing one.
• Understand the critical variables that companies pursuing an IoT solution should consider before customizing the stacks for specific needs.
• Recognize the importance of the IoT data management and compute stack as important design factor.
• Recognize how Amazon Web Services can assist in collecting and sending data to the cloud, load and analyze information, and provide the ability to manage your devices.
• Understand how designing an IoT network plays important role in managing huge volume of data for business benefits.
• Understand why technology such as HVAC system is in vogue.
• Understand the different IoT services of different companies.
• Explore IoT programming boards and enjoy working with Arduino UNO board using Android app:
• Know how to upload codes in an Arduino UNO board to connect it with app.
• Android app sends the Red, Green and Blue components to Arduino.
• Control simple RGB LED from Android
• Know how to upload code to get multiple LEDS blinking in a serial manner.

Module 4: IoT Business Models

• Identify how IoT can contribute towards different types of successful online advertising and advertisement-based revenue.
• Understand different models of advertising like, CPA (Cost per acquisition), CPC (Cost per conversion) and CPM (Cost per thousand / mile impressions).
• Understand various service models that companies are providing these days like, pay-per-use - consumption-based pricing model, subscription-based model, freemium pricing model, and the revenue sharing model.
• Understand different promotional marketing techniques such as cross-selling and upselling.
• Learn to manage various smart gadgets and select which one is appropriate for specific needs in our life.
• Identify the areas in which a company should pay attention to ensure that its customers get to have good experience of a product or service.
• Understand how a company can build a smart procurement and operation management process, especially if it has businesses across the world.
• Understand how IoT smart, mobile and connected devices make supply chain management or procurement processes more decentralized, bringing better sales.
• Explore IoT programming boards and enjoy working with Arduino UNO board using Android app:
• Know how to upload codes in an Arduino UNO board to connect it with app.
• Android app sends the Red, Green and Blue components to Arduino.

Module 5: Entrepreneurship Opportunities in IoT

• Highlight the challenges in finding the required talent for IoT-related jobs.
• How can you encourage an eligible candidate to transition himself/herself into an IoT job?
• Analyze how IoT is generating significant interest from both emerging and traditional fundraising communities.
• Trace the three major service models that are closely bound to IoT infrastructure, to help entrepreneurs.
• Compare and contrast the requirements for building an IoT infrastructure and a traditional one.
• What are the basic things internet entrepreneurs must know about website hosting?
• Explain how an IoT device or distributed IoT service can be developed.
• Understand the basics of IoT hardware and operating systems required for a start-up.
• Enlist the commonly used IoT programming languages.
• Evaluate why IoT data security must be incorporated at a very early stage.
• Recognize how data collection is built into product development.
• Distinguish between data-driven marketing and real-time customer data for service aspects.
• Elucidate the relationship between IoT and marketing.
• Relate how data analysis syncs with IoT applications.
• Examine the major types of data analytics.
• Deduce the role of data analytics in IoT applications:
• Try turning on the LED when a push button is pressed using Arduino UNO board.
• Focus on the procedure to be followed for wiring the Arduino UNO board.

Module 6: IoT Standards

• Analyze the reasons for the lack of consistency and standards across the cloud services used by the different IoT solutions.
• Trace the evolution of the industries to adopt a standard model to perform common IoT backend tasks.
• Identify the four categories on which the IoT standardization depends.
• How can IoT implementation happen with standardization?
• Explain how standardization makes life easier.
• Examine the need to have spectrum energy communication protocol standards.
• Compare and contrast the standards for communication within and outside the cloud.
• List the things which need to get standardized in cloud communication.
• Describe how important information security is for IoT services.
• Understand the design considerations for IoT technologies in terms of data creation and traceability.
• Critically analyse why traceability and standards are a strategic priority for organisations around the world.
• Gauge the standards for energy consumption.
• Understand how standards like ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002 provide a common language to address information security issues.
• Explain the privacy protection standards that can help in improving the business’s core competency.
• Elucidate about UMA and its architecture.
• What are the specific IoT risks related to privacy that people worry about?
• Describe the IoT privacy framework.
• Learn to use a photoresistor:
• Understand how the resistance varies based on the amount of light the sensor receives.
• What are the values of the resistors used for testing this photoresistor?

Module 7: IoT Platforms

• Get a basic understanding of IoT platforms and the various types.
• Explain what is Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT platform.
• Analyze the benefits of using AWS IoT Core.
• Understand how Windows 10 simplifies the IoT by powering smart devices.
• List down the benefits of using Windows 10 IoT core.
• Compare the features and benefits of Kaa, IBM Watson, Google Cloud and Predix.
• Explore the different platforms for hosting applications on Cloud Platform.
• Highlight the features of Oracle IoT Cloud Service - a managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud-based offering that helps in critical business decisions and strategies.
• Outline the advantages of using the Arduino board in IoT projects.
• Describe how the Arduino hardware and software are designed in creating interactive objects.
• Examine the PlatformIO platform which is an open source ecosystem for IoT development.
• Understand how the GraspIo and Node-RED IoT platforms work.
• Learn about the two types of Node-RED nodes that help in connecting devices.
• Describe the steps involved in installing the Ardublock programming environment.
• Explore the major changes in mobility with the advent of 5G technology driving the IoT growth engine.
• Explain about the Reactive Blocks - a visual model-driven development environment:
• Have fun using a SPDT switch embedded with an Arduino UNO board to blink LEDs.
• Trace the pinout diagram of the Arduino UNO board wiring.
• Observe the role of the PlatformIO Build option to check errors in the SPDT switch program.
• Know what to do if the PlatformIO window does not automatically open after the Atom application is launched.
• Learn about the IoT cloud platform - Xively.

Module 8: Development Boards

• Study the features of an Arduino board and find out how to control home automation system through android apps.
• Study features of the high-performance computer Raspberry Pi and how to create and control automation.
• Study the different versions of Raspberry Pi available.
• Identify the difference between Nvidia TX2 and Raspberry Pi3.
• Study Edison computing module of Intel for controlling wearable projects, manage internet-of-things applications, and control robotics platforms.
• Study Particle Photon and why it is ideal for IoT projects with cloud-connectivity.
• Discover the great features of Particle Cloud for building connected projects, including OTA firmware upgrades, REST technology, and other firmware.
• Analyze the features of both Photon and Electron.
• Study DragonBoard 410c development board and find out why it is ideal for IoT.
• Experiment interfacing an Arduino board with LCD that displays information picked up by sensors
• Know how to connect Arduino with LCD through wiring and then upload codes to Arduino.
• Identify the features of the current generation of Raspberry Pi and learn how to get started with it.

Module 9: IoT Circuits and Wirings

• Understand the basics of IoT circuits and the printed circuit boards used.
• Explore the MCM, SiP and 3D-IC packaging technologies applied for IoT devices.
• Compare the different classifications of MCM packaging.
• Analyze how SiP packaging makes it easier to integrate digital logic, analog, and RF systems into a single chip.
• Know the areas where the 3D-IC packaging is applied.
• List the major types of connectors and wires used in IoT.
• Learn about the common cables used in development boards:
• Identify the type of USB cable and jumper wires used in a temperature sensor.
• Know the software required for this experiment.
• Enjoy connecting the wires to integrate the temperature sensor with the Arduino UNO!

Module 10: IoT Sensors, Actuators and Smart Objects

• IoT Sensors:
• Understand Machine Vision Sensors and how they are useful.
• Realize how Machine Vision Sensor works.
• Understand Optical Sensors and how they are useful.
• Realize how Optical Sensor works.
• Understand all about Ambient Light Sensors and how they are useful.
• Realize how Ambient Light Sensors works.
• Take account of Acceleration Sensors and various uses of accelerometers.
• Understand the various modes in which Acceleration Sensor can be used.
• Identify how Acceleration Sensors work.
• Understand Tilt Sensors and their various uses.
• Identify how Tilt Sensor works.
• Understand Electric and Magnetic Sensors and their various uses.
• Take an account of classifications of Magnetic sensors.
• Understand how Electric and Magnetic Sensors work.
• Understand Level and Leak Sensors and their various uses.
• Understand how Level and Leak Sensors work.
• Differentiate Force, Load, Torque and Pressure Sensors.
• Understand Force and Load sensors work.
• Take account of different kind of load cells.
• Understand Torque and Pressure Sensors and their uses.
• Understand Flow Sensors and their various types.
• Analyse the 3 systems in mass-flow based sensors.
• Understand Chemical and Gas Sensors and their uses.
• Understand Acoustic Sensors and how they work.
• Be aware of how a microphone works as a “sound sensor”.
• Analyse how Vibration sensors can measure and analyse displacement, linear velocity, and acceleration.
• Analyse how humidity levels in the air of a place can measured and reported.
• Understand temperature sensors and their different physical types.
• Understand how temperature sensors work.
• Understand how motion sensors are used in different types of devices to detect motion.
• Discover the various types of motion sensing used to detect different types of movement.
• Understand how different Displacement sensors in applications serve a variety of purposes.
• Analyse why position sensors are called linear position sensors or angular position sensors.
• Identify different sensing principles used for position sensors.
• Trace how presence detector works?
• Enlist different proximity sensors and the different applications they are used with.
• Understand Radiation Sensors and what are the different types used for different kinds of detection.
• Identify how Biosensors work and what are the variety of substances that are used as bio-element in sensors.
• Smartphone Sensors:
• Discover how smartphones acquire better intelligence with sensors.
• Understand smartphone cameras and how the sensors work.
• Identify the different technologies for improving capability of the sensors.
• Understand NFC sensors and how they work.
• Analyse the 3 modes of operation for NFC sensors.
• Identify accelerometers sensors in mobile devices work as Pedometers.
• Identify the benefits of using Pedometers.
• Understand how GPS works.
• Understand how Global Positioning System (GPS) processes information to measure your running route, map a golf course, find a way home or adventure anywhere.
• Understand how Light Sensors detect level of light in an ambience and what are the different types of light sensors.
• Understand how touch screen of an electronic device works and how many types of touch screen technology exists.
• Understand thermistor sensors.
• Understand the usage of thermometer sensors and the different types used in the market today.
• Understand how a barometer pressure sensor works in apps for smart phones.
• Understand how digital barometers help in keeping lot of information at your fingertips.
• Understand how microphone sensor works in a smartphone and how many categories they belong to.
• Explore how moisture sensor can be used for detecting moisture or level of water around a sensor.
• Understand why an airplane would use about a dozen gyroscopes for navigation and orientation purpose.
• Understand humidity sensor or dew sensors and how they work.
• Find out how many kinds of humidity sensors exist.
• Explore how accelerometer in a phone enhances switching of apps, change orientation from portrait to landscape to showing of current speed in a driving app.
• Understand how a magnetometer works and how many categories it can be classified into.
• Understand how mobile phones use IR-based proximity sensors to detect the presence of a human ear.
• Explore the variety of Proximity sensors.
• IoT Actuators:
• Explore the working of a hydraulic actuator and what advantages it brings.
• Understand the importance of Pneumatic actuators and how each type can be used for specific applications.
• Understand the key specifications of Electric actuators.
• Study electric actuators to understand how they provide power for static loads of 6000 lbs and dynamic loads up to 3000 lbs or more.
• Explore why thermal actuators are non-electric mechanical systems producing linear motion upon temperature change.
• Understand how Electromagnetic actuator converts electrical energy to magnetic field.
• Understand about the different categories of magnetic actuators.
• Understand Mechanical actuators can help in operation of gears, rails, pulleys, chains and other devices.
• Explore how 3D Printed Soft Actuators allow safe human-robot interaction by performing delicate tasks that rigid robots can’t handle.
• Discover the simultaneous sensing and actuation capabilities of Smart Actuators such as SMA (Shape Memory Alloys) and EAP (Electro-active polymers).
• Understand unique characteristics of SMA actuators, its advantages and limitations.
• Understand about tiny mobile devices that use Micro actuators, also called micromachines, microelectromechanical system (MEMS), and microsystems.
• Trace MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology.
• List out the Smart objects, their dual nature of physical and digital entities.
• Understand wireless sensor network (WSN) work with a large number of sensor nodes
• Explore why WSNs will become the key technology for IoT.
• Understand SANET sensor networks and how they can be enhanced by additional actuation facilities.
• Understand the difference between Application-specific SANETs and the generic ones.
• Experiment connecting servo motors with an Arduino board:
• Know how to run the code into the Arduino UNO board
• Know how to drive a servo motor that can be controlled precisely.

Module 11: Interconnecting Smart Objects

• Understand what makes an object ‘smart’.
• Compare the features of IEEE 802.15.4, IEEE 802.15.4G and IEEE 802.15.4e standards.
• Learn about Wireless Smart Utility Network.
• Explain how Time Synchronized Channel Hopping (TSCH) synchronizes the motes for energy efficiency and channel hop for reliability.
• Analyze what makes IEEE1901.2A standard suitable for communication over low voltage and medium-voltage power lines.
• Understand the IEEE 802.11ah standard and its operations.
• Compare and contrast the applications of LoRaWAN, Narrowband IoT and LTE protocol standards.
• Highlight the concepts of IFTTT web-based service.
• Describe the different frequency bands required in wireless IoT applications.
• Study the various types of IoT network topologies.
• Examine the constrained devices used in IoT networks and the classes of devices.
• What exactly is a constrained node network.
• Choose from the variety of wireless access technologies available based on the requirements and applications.
• Compare the Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth types and list their applications.
• Explain in detail about the WirelessHART network.
• Learn more about the Thread networking protocol aimed at the home automation environment.
• Know how the standards that are applicable while driving a motor:
• Identify the types of wires, resistor, DC motor, transistor and diode required for the experiment.
• Follow the procedure to drive a motor using a switching transistor on the Arduino UNO board.

Module 12: IoT Programming Languages

• Understand that we need to learn a range of programming languages to turn IoT enabled devices into smart things.
• Explain why C programming language is the most widely used computer programming language.
• Understand the most important features of C.
• Explain why C++ is a hybrid language.
• Explain the benefit of C++ being an assortment of predefined modules of data.
• Know the most important features of C++.
• Explain why Java is called an object-oriented language.
• Explain why Java provides the most secure programming environment.
• Know about the 2 types of programmes created by Java.
• Explain why Python language is said to be flexible and open to modification.
• Identify the important features of Python.
• Explain why JavaScript is called a client-side scripting language.
• Understand the important features of JavaScript.
• Explain why assembly language is unique for every specific computer architecture.
• Identify what type of Assembly language instructions are supported by x86 processors.
• Explain why B# called is a modern programming language.
• Explore why C programme continues to be the foundation of B#.
• Explain how B#EVM makes B# codes suitable for modern microcontrollers.
• Understand why Go is a language of cloud infrastructure.
• Decipher the important features of Go language.
• Explain why Parallel Specification and Implementation Language or ParaSail is ideally designed to support multicore wares and heterogeneous architecture.
• Understand how Parallelism in Parasail helps in simplification of the language and eliminates complications.
• Understand why execution of the PHP script is done on the server where the website is hosted.
• Explain why Rust language is expected to shape the future of systems programming.
• Identify the important features Swift programming language.
• Identify the advantages of Swift.
• Explain why Arduino is an easy tool for fast prototyping, and easy to be used by students without a background in electronics and programming.
• Experiment connecting circuits that can be used to drive a single DC motor on Arduino board:
• Know how to run and upload codes on Arduino board
• Know how to use motor driver with SPDT switch and potentiometer to control the speed and direction of DC motor

Module 13: IoT Network Layers

• Understand IoT company protocols and the internet protocols required for IoT.
• Understand application layer, transport layer, internet layer and physical layers of architecture and the protocols required to make them work seamlessly.
• Explore more about IP-compatible protocol stack and how data can be transferred with efficient bandwidth even if the hardware resources are limited.
• Understand the protocols and how they can solve different needs of the communication between machines.
• Understand why application layer protocol requires Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP).
• Understand how Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) targets lightweight M2M communications.
• Understand how Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is designed for chatting and message exchanging.
• Understand how Representational State Transfer (REST) is good for providing a resource-oriented messaging system.
• Understand about Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).
• Understand how WebSocket protocol is developed as part of the HTML 5 initiative to facilitate communications channels over TCP.
• Understand the two transport protocols TCP and UDP where TCP is for our human interactions with the Web and UDP is for real-time data applications.
• Understand how Internet layer works identifying and routing packets of data with technologies IPv6, 6LoWPAN and RPL.
• Understand why Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) are prevalent standards for manufacturing industry.
• Identify asynchronous and synchronous modes of Serial communication for sending/receiving serial data.
• Understand Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) functionality and how it can be delivered on NB-IoT, Cat-M1 and EC-GSM-IoT at low-cost.
• Understand 6TiSCH and its standardizing mechanisms making the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) a reality.
• Understand how 6TiSCH can reuse existing protocols such as IP6 Neighbor Discovery (ND), IPv6 Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN), and the Routing Protocol for Low Power and
• Lossy Networks (RPL), with minimum adaptation.
• Trace distance vector routing protocol (RPL) designed for low power and lossy networks, supported by a routing topology called Destination-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG).
• Understand in-depth how to deal with regulatory and legal challenges, privacy and data security requirements, critical infrastructure considerations, product safety, energy efficiency, medical device obligations, advertising, etc.
• Recognize the scope of IoT networks with Wi-Sun Alliance which is a global industry association for supporting the worldwide development of Wireless Communications Networks for Utilities, Smart Cities and IoT.
• Experiment connecting circuits that can be used to connect a buzzer to Arduino board:
• Know how to connect a buzzer to my Arduino Uno to play a tone when voltage is on and off several times a second.

Module 14: IoT Building Prototypes using 3D Printers

• Analyze how 3D printing technologies find wide applications in the IoT industry.
• Identify the materials used to print 3D objects.
• Explore the 3D modelling software
• Know how the Exploratory Agent-based Modelling (EABM) is implemented as part of the Cognitive Agent-based Computing (CABC) framework to model a Complex communication network problem.
• Explain why agent-based modelling and simulation tools are preferred for modelling large complex networks.
• Trace the integration process between the print industry and the IoT infrastructure.
• How relevant is 3D printing in the IoT landscape?
• Infer how involving 3D printing technology in the IoT environment results in efficient customer service.
• Track the emerging market trends for 3D printing solutions and finishing projects.
• Focus on the 5 points to remember when an organization embarks on IoT strategies:
• Analyse the effects of using sound as input with a sound detector board.
• Check out the specific pin diagram of the sound detector board.
• Learn the circuit connections between the RGB LED and the sound detector board.
• Identify the change of color of RGB based on the input sound.
• Verify what happens when the input sound is very high.
• Learn about the technologies used in autonomous cars.

Module 15: IoT Cloud Data Storage

• Explore how you can remotely store, maintain and manage your data in the cloud.
• Learn about different companies and their data warehouses.
• Understand the process of storing files and folders on cloud.
• Understand how data is stored based on a schema or plan.
• Identify the 3 broad categories of cloud services such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as service (SaaS).
• What are the multidimensional data structures for efficient performance in data storage and searching systems.
• Explore the various cloud computing environment that have been proposed to construct efficient and flexible cloud indices.
• Recognize why enterprises are increasingly interested in accessing unstructured data and integrating it with structured data.
• Understand Operational data typically stored in relational database management systems (RDBMS).
• Understand Data Management System (DMS) software used for gathering and comparing quality-related data from multiple sources across the enterprise for real-time decision making.
• Understand the ETL process for extracting data from different sources (files (like CSV, JSON, XML) or RDBMS etc.) and consolidating them.
• Experiment how to extend an Arduino board using a shift register (IC/serial to parallel converter)
• Build and upload a program and run the required codes from libraries into Arduino UNO.
• Run a serial-in, parallel-out shift register to convert data from serial format to parallel format to control 8 LEDs.

Module 16: Deep Learning

• Analyze the big impact of deep learning in computer vision and natural language processing applications.
• Categorize the 3 major factors that have helped deep learning to find wide range of applications.
• List the prominent industries where deep learning is extensively used.
• Identify the reasons for deep learning models being referred to as deep neural networks.
• Learn about the convoluted neural networks (CNNs) with its detailed schematic diagram.
• Compare and contrast between deep learning and machine learning.
• Describe the methods of creating and training the deep learning models.
• Explain the difference between the deep learning neural network architectures and the normal neural networks.
• Identify the differences between unsupervised and supervised learning tasks.
• Classify the major types of supervised learning tasks.
• Understand the process of training and optimizing basic neural networks, convolutional neural networks and long and short-term memory (LSTM) networks.
• Explore the structure of recurrent neural networks (RNN).
• Distinguish recurrent networks from feedforward networks.
• Learn about backpropagation in feedforward networks.
• Trace the data flow through a memory cell and its control by its gates.
• Know about the TensorFlow machine learning system in detail.
• Understand Caffe - a deep learning framework that aids image classification and object detection.
• Plot the learning curve to view the training and test losses as a function of the number of iterations.
• Compare the Theano and Torch library features:
• Learn how to use a real time clock module.
• Follow the instructions to add external libraries on PlatformIO.
• Using the real time clock module on a serial monitor, display the date and time.
• Understand how virtual reality programming is executed using Holo.

Module 17: Big Data Analytics

• Identify the benefits of big data analytics.
• Evaluate the special features of the NoSQL database in data mining applications.
• Explain the Hadoop distributed processing framework used in big data projects.
• Elucidate the edge streaming analytics technique applicable to remote devices connected to IoT.
• Analyze the network analytics technique to identify trends and patterns.
• Learn about the NetFlow protocol developed by Cisco systems.
• Track the possibilities that open up through analytical processing technologies.
• View the scope for big data analytics in the IT industries.
• Evaluate the impact of the IoT on big data projects that will force companies to quickly upgrade their existing processes, tools, and technology.
• Take note of the major challenges encountered by big data analytics.
• Big data and advanced analytics provide the tools and techniques to harness and integrate new sources and types of data in larger volumes and in real-time:
• Learn how to wire the circuit diagram of 8x8 LED matrix such that there is a LED for each pixel and they are connected to a total of 16 pins.
• Explore the pin connections between the LED matrix and the Arduino board.
• Understand how the 8x8 matrix displays can be used to display the letters and figures.
• Learn about the MS IoT Edge programming details.

Module 18: Industry 4.0

• Analyze how IoT has transformed the way people and industries interact and conduct business.
• Identify how smart objects enable faster and informed business decisions.
• Observe the industrial IoT wave visible in emerging economies.
• Analyse the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, referred to as Industry 4.0.
• List the four functional facets of industrial IOT as identified by Frost & Sullivan.
• Understand the Industry 4.0 Business Ecosystem.
• Know the applications of industrial IoT in the manufacturing and consumer sectors.
• Analyse the total market integration of the networked sensors and machinery, based on faster data processes.
• Evaluate the Business Insiders (BI) Intelligence report based on the industrial impact on IoT.
• Understand how IoT impacts industrial productivity.
• Discuss the applications of IoT across all segments of industry.
• How has Industry 4.0 impacted the manufacturing sector?
• Describe how smart supply chains have enhanced the in-transit visibility of products in the industries.
• Learn about the relationship between IoT and the smart supply chains.
• Explain how cryptocurrencies work in an interconnected world.
• Understand the cryptocurrency mining and the concept of mining pools.
• Focus on the machine-2-machine (M2M) transactions through IOTA:
• Know about ensuring IoT security.
• Trace the penetration of automations across the various industrial sectors:
• Try out an experiment of controlling two servo motors using a joystick module.
• Learn to develop applications for the Occulus platforms.

Module 19: Smart Cities

• Explain why Smart cities are manifestations of new age digital technology.
• Comparatively analyze what kind of infrastructure can support IoT applications.
• Identify the D5 nations and their principles for digital development.
• Identify the basic digital transformation required in infrastructure for creating a digital city.
• Recognize the key areas of Cisco’s Digital Value at Stake.
• Identify the initiatives taken by different government bodies across the world to initiate IoT.
• Understand why IoT is the core component of virtual cities which are digital representation of cities with various embedded functionalities, simulating architecture of our society.
• Understand how the real time products, buildings, and cities can be created in virtual reality (VR).
• Explore how Second life can allow us to create cities in unique ways.
• Understand the role of IoT in creating Information cities which are the ideal prototypes of the knowledge societies of the future.
• Understand how Informational cities are going to be the new age power centres with their information networks powered by information technologies.
• Assess how Intelligent cities are driven by IoT capabilities to augment the performance and services provided by the cities.
• Identify the enhancement in information and communication technologies that requires to create Intelligent cities.
• Understand how IoT and its sensory network and context-aware information management systems give rise to ubiquitous cities (u-city).
• Identify the effective framework of Ubiquitous Computing project for establishing a u-city.
• How Oulu city in Finland is being developed as Ubiquitous city?
• Experiment how to detect presence of RFID card that uses electromagnetic fields for transferring data over short distances.
• Run the codes from libraries on Arduino
• Connect the Arduino with the RFID reader to read the information stored in the memory

Module 20: IoT Case Studies

• Observe Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) rapidly progressing in the manufacturing sector.
• Understand the impact of IIoT in digital and connected factories.
• Know how IoT in manufacturing enhances the facility management operations and eliminates waste in the production units.
• Analyze how IoT combined with big data analysis can improve the overall workers’ safety and security in the premises.
• Learn about IoT in Oil & Gas sector, that focuses on helping operators drive down costs and increase productivity.
• Analyse how companies can transform their businesses in order to stay competitive and meet consumer demands, with IoT.
• Understand how IoT helps to monitor processes and conduct secure operations while dealing with various utilities in your daily life.
• Identify the role played by IoT in helping a city deploy new services, including smart parking and smart street lighting.
• Understand the important role IoT will play in transportation and logistics industries.
• Identify how tools like RFID, barcode scanners and mobile computers can make supply chain visibility and operations more effective and efficient for manufacturing, shipping, distribution, and so on.
• Understand how IoT promises to bring in autonomous and enhanced driving experiences.
• Understand how IoT can improve mining safety, at multiple levels.
• Identify the ways in which mining industry can benefit from IoT automation systems.
• Understand IoT can prevent equipment failure by detecting status of the equipment in mining industry.
• Understand the variety of IoT solutions that can be applicable to public safety measures.
• Understand how IoT can enhance interactions between citizens and field personnels by automatic sharing of real-time monitoring, creating situational reports and action plans.
• Understand how IoT can rev up the healthcare systems through effective and constant tracking and monitoring of systems.
• Know how IoT can reduce cost of treatment through effective monitoring and cloud connectivity.
• Analyze how IoT helps healthcare providers take vital decisions.
• Learn how to connect the ULN2003 Motor Driver Module.
• How to drive stepper motor using stepper motor driver after setting the the circuit and running codes from library.
• Drive Stepper motor, used for automation, and Stepper Motor Control using Arduino
• Experiment with Tilt and Water level sensors:
• After setting the the circuit with wiring and running codes from library,
• Detect orientation or inclination of an object using the tilt sensor on the Arduino Board.
• Measure the level of water using a water level sensor and Arduino Board.

Module 21: IoT Security

• Identify how increasing number of connected devices will compound the threat to security and privacy issues.
• Understand the concerns of Internet of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF).
• Study and identify the cases of security lapses in networks of various companies in the past.
• Understand why Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is important.
• Analyze the different levels of intelligence in information science that supports Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW).
• Analyze specific threats that organizations need to know to protect themselves from cyber-attacks.
• Identify the different kind of threat actors.
• Understand typical cyber situational awareness security professionals should have before arriving at right decision.
• Understand the Cybersecurity Framework followed in the US.
• Understand the core elements in the Framework that helps in managing cybersecurity risks both internally and externally.
• Learn to detect the presence or motion of a moving object using a PIR (Passive infrared) sensor:
• After running codes from Arduino library open serial monitor.
• Enter a command to the terminal window to detect any motion.
• Verify the changes in infrared light in the environment to detect any motion.

Module 22: IoT in Home Automation

• Identify the different aspects of the Echo family of smart speakers.
• Compare the features of the second-generation Amazon Echo devices: Spot and Dot, and the Show and Look.
• Delve into the details of Echo Plus.
• Explore Amazon’s interactive voice-based personal assistant.
• Analyze the elements of Alexa Skills for accomplishing different tasks.
• Understand Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) that stores the self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and code samples.
• Enjoy working with Alexa’s announcements.
• Get to know about Google Home powered by Google Assistant that offers a user-friendly interface to Google.
• Learn how to create your own app for the Google Assistant to control any device.
• What should you use to embed the Google Assistant in your devices.
• Highlight the aspects of the Device Actions feature that helps the Google Assistant.
• Explain how you can connect the Google Home to your television.
• List the steps to be followed to build a device.
• Know more about Google WiFi.