Embedded System and IoT

Course Syllabus

Unit	Topics for Coverage
Unit 1	Embedded, Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT: Introduction, application areas, examples, Common characteristics, Challenges and design flows, Modeling of Embedded and Cyber Physical Systems - Requirements, models of computation, Finite State Machines, Timed Automata, State Charts, Modeling of Hierarchy; Data flow modeling , Discrete Event Modeling , Continuous and Discrete time system concepts.
Unit 2	Design - Choosing the components HW platforms - Processors, Sensors, Actuators; SW stack – RTOS, Scheduling Real Time control tasks, IoT Fundamentals - Devices, Gateway; Elements of IoT - IoT Functional blocks, IoT Communication Modules and API.
Unit 3	Basics of Networking, Machine-to-Machine interaction, IoT Communication Protocols MQTT, ZigBee, Bluetooth, CoAP, UDP, TCP.
Unit 4	Concept of Cloud Computing: Everything as a Service (XaaS), Role of Cloud; Software Components - Programming API's; IoT Application Development - Solution Framework for IoT. Advanced topics - Data Analytics for IoT, Fault Tolerance in IoT based Systems; IoT Security.

References:
- Peter Mardwel, Embedded System Foundations of Cyber Physical Systems Springer 2nd Edition.
- E. A. Lee, SanjitSeshia Introduction to Embedded Systems – A Cyber–Physical Systems Approach.
- Rajeev Alur, Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems.
- Pethuru Raj and Anupama C. Raman (CRC Press) , The Internet of Things : Enabling Technologies, Platforms and Use Cases.
- ArshdeepBagha and Vijay Madisetti Internet of Things: A Hands-on Approach.
- Research articles from Journals and Conference Proceedings.