Project Oriented Teaching in Internet of Things Education
A fundamental IoT framework with focus to its utilization in teaching in engineering study programmes is discussed and outcomes of the selected successful student projects carried out at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Žilina are presented.
Abstract
In this paper, a fundamental IoT framework with focus to its utilization in teaching in engineering study programmes is discussed. In the second part, outcomes of the selected successful student projects carried out at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Žilina, are presented. The solutions are based on simple low-cost microcontrollers and single-board minicomputers such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Sigfox cloud-based application platform, among others. Experience has shown that these projects markedly help students to improve skills in developing both HW and SW solutions. Even by developing simple IoT applications, students are able to transfer, in very short time, their theoretical knowledge into practical solutions for everyday life or industry.