Individual Assessment IoE: IoT System Development Brief

On successful completion of the module students will be able to

1. Critically appraise knowledge-based relating to the use of Internet of Everything, including (passive and active) sensors, actuators, the physical communications layer, communications protocols, programming frameworks, and an understanding of energy and bandwidth constraints.
2. Evaluate design approaches used to design Internet of Everything applications.
3. Design and build a sensor network based on Internet of Everything technology.
4. Develop application software of moderate complexity for a well-used mobile platform.
5. Discuss current research issues and application areas of the Internet of Everything and mobile devices, including an understanding of the commercial context and privacy/security issues, and make well-informed speculations on the future of the area.

How will your work be assessed?

Your work will be assessed by a subject expert who will use the marking grid provided in this assessment brief.  When you access your marked coursework, it is important that you reflect on the feedback so that you can use it to improve future assignments.

Feedback: Formative feedback will be provided in workshop sessions and during the Assignment Clinic week.

Although you will be guided throughout the module by your lecturer, you can get extra support for your assignment, just make an appointment with the ACE team for any language, research and study skills issues and/or talk, email the Computing ACE expert for any advice on how to approach your assignment. REMEMBER: they are not here to give you the answers!

Expectations: Every individual should analyse and design a suitable solution using any IoT development board like raspberry pi/ Arduino/ ESP32/ ESP8266, etc and different services/ sensors. Note: You can plan and choose any IOT board and any sensors. This assignment will assess module learning outcomes 2, 3 and 4.

Rationale: The report should demonstrate understanding of industry-based challenges given below. The awareness of various types of solutions should be shown and recommendations for potential solutions should be based on justified arguments. You should demonstrate how theories can be applied. The robustness and correctness of the system should be tested, and performance should be evaluated with known and innovative technological solutions. You should reflect upon measures/steps taken to incorporate ethical, accessibility and usability standards in the developed system and the resultant implications.

Suggested requirements for the assignment: Raspberry pi/ Arduino/ ESP32/ ESP8266. You can also develop and test the whole system in simulation software like Tinkercad or Proteus programme language, connectivity network, output devices (i.e. LED/ MQTT Lens, I2C or SPI LCD or even Serial Monitor).

You need to build a complete IoT system that can have real life application related to home, healthcare, transportation, and community, etc. For example, one can create a system that can measure and monitor humidity & temperature of home, measuring distance between the two objects, creating a Burglar alarm or any other security system.

For this development, you need to develop a system using at least 1 esp32/ Arduino/ raspberry pi, 1 sensor device (any active or passive sensor) and 1 output device (Serial monitor/ LCD/ LED/ MQTT lens). Finally, you should also make use of wireless communication using either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

1. The solution could use any type of output devices (i.e. LED/ MQTT Lens, I2C or SPI LCD or even Serial Monitor).
2. The solution could use any type of input devices (i.e. Passive Infrared sensor, Ultrasonic sound sensor or DHT sensor).
3. You can use any development IDE (Integrated development environment) and any programming language (Arduino C or Python, etc) of your choice.
4. You should demonstrate the use of Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to send or receive data from IoT devices to output devices.
5. You can further publish the sensors data to any MQTT broker or HTTP server.

• Provide explanations for your chosen system covering its functionalities.
• Provide description of the solution (what IoT system has been implemented? What does it do? What sensors and output devices have been used?)
• Provide the whole architectural design of the chosen IoT system.
• Provide explanations and working of all protocols used in your designed system.
• Provide the whole programming codes used in the whole system.
• Provide the snapshots demonstrating the testing and working of the system.
• End the report with a section containing discussion on the issues and application areas of the system including an understanding of the commercial context and privacy/security issues.