INF471C - Modal - Connected Objects and the Internet of Things (IoT) (2022-2023)

In the 21th century, a company developing a product (or, a polytechnique student, doing a PSC...) either: 

 

 

  • has a strategy for rendering the product (or, the PSC) somehow connected; or 
  • is as disconnected from reality, as was the guy installing the bike-rack on the picture to the right. 

 

If you are, or want to be, in the first category, then this MODAL is for you – regardless of your previous experience. 

Whether you are a novice, or a seasoned programmer, this tutorial-based MODAL will bring you to having developed a complete connected object (system), and in the process taught you things such as: 

 

  • How a micro controller works, and how to build intelligent objects with it? 
  • How to (effciently) use WiFi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth/LE, IEEE 802.15.4, and other “IoT Interconnect” to connect your intelligent object to the Internet 
  • How to “communicate to the cloud” from your connected object – in passing, understand things such as CoAp, and REST. 

 

 

A connected, multi-site, weather station
A home automation system
A Trump-o-Matic (a Twitter button)
...

 

 
You are highly encouraged to bring your own project ideas, which your instructors will work with you to fit in to the tutorials. 

 

For this reason, this MODAL is limited to 24 students.
Student limit: 24
Prerequisites: INF321 or INF311
  (Having followed INF411, INF421 and/or INF431 probably won't hurt)