INF471C - Modal - Connected Objects and the IOT (2023-2024)

In the 21st century, a company developing a product (or, a Polytechnique student, doing a CSP...) either:

  • has a strategy to render the product (or, the CSP) somehow connected; or
  • is as disconnected from reality, as 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 develop a complete connected object (system), and in the process, you will learn things such as:

  • How a microcontroller works, and how to build intelligent objects with it? 
  • How to (efficiently) 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 into the PCs. 

For this reason, this MODAL is limited to 24 students.