Connected Devices and the Internet of Things

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• From embedded to IoT ~30 min
• Devices, gateways, brokers and clouds ~35 min
• Telemetry, commands and state ~35 min
• Edge vs cloud ~35 min
• A connected device end to end ~35 min
• Standards, protocols, radios and platforms ~30 min

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• Packets and layers ~35 min
• Links, frames and MAC addresses ~35 min
• IPv4 addresses and subnets ~50 min
• Routers, gateways and NAT ~40 min
• DHCP and DNS ~40 min
• Ports and sockets ~30 min
• IPv6 for devices ~40 min
• Seeing your own traffic ~45 min

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• UDP datagrams ~35 min
• TCP connections ~40 min
• Reliability by retransmission ~45 min
• Flow and congestion in one picture ~30 min
• Latency, throughput and loss ~45 min
• Choosing TCP or UDP ~35 min

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• How Wi-Fi works ~40 min
• Joining a network ~45 min
• Wi-Fi security ~40 min
• Provisioning credentials ~50 min
• Finding devices locally ~40 min
• Ethernet for devices ~30 min
• Range, power and interference ~45 min

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• Requests and responses ~40 min
• Calling a REST API ~50 min
• Why HTTPS ~35 min
• A local status page ~45 min
• JSON payloads on small devices ~45 min
• WebSockets ~35 min

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• The BLE radio and its roles ~35 min
• Advertising and scanning ~45 min
• GATT services and characteristics ~55 min
• Notifications and throughput ~50 min
• Pairing and bonding ~45 min
• Talking to a phone or a browser ~45 min
• Connection loss and recovery ~50 min

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• ESP-NOW ~45 min
• Thread and Matter ~45 min
• Zigbee ~35 min
• LoRa and LoRaWAN ~60 min
• Cellular IoT ~45 min
• Choosing a wireless technology ~45 min

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• The network will fail ~35 min
• Reconnect with backoff ~45 min
• Store and forward ~45 min
• Retries and idempotency ~45 min
• Time on a device ~40 min
• Testing under bad networks ~45 min

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• Publish/subscribe ~35 min
• Brokers and clients ~40 min
• Topics and wildcards ~40 min
• Designing a topic tree ~35 min
• Quality of service ~45 min
• Retained messages and last will ~45 min
• Sessions and keepalive ~40 min
• MQTT on the ESP32 ~50 min

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• MQTT authentication and ACLs ~45 min
• MQTT over TLS ~55 min
• MQTT 5 features ~45 min
• HTTP vs MQTT vs WebSockets ~40 min
• CoAP for constrained devices ~50 min
• Payload formats and contracts ~50 min

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• Device identity ~40 min
• Registration and lifecycle ~40 min
• Shadows and desired state ~50 min
• Commands and acknowledgements ~50 min
• Fleet management ~40 min
• Observability and device health ~45 min
• Events and rules ~45 min

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• Time-series data ~45 min
• Relational, time-series and document stores ~50 min
• Ingesting telemetry ~60 min
• Querying device history ~55 min
• Retention and downsampling ~50 min
• Cost and scale ~50 min

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• Reference architectures ~45 min
• Gateways or direct to cloud ~45 min
• Architecture diagrams and interface contracts ~60 min
• Managed clouds and lock-in ~50 min
• Designing for failure ~50 min

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• Designing a back end ~45 min
• The reference back end ~60 min
• The same service in other languages ~45 min
• Registration and authentication APIs ~60 min
• API design, validation and rate limits ~60 min
• Testing the back end ~60 min
• Deploying and running it ~60 min

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• Real-time dashboards ~55 min
• Charts, alerts and thresholds ~55 min
• Users, roles and permissions ~60 min
• Multi-tenant systems ~50 min
• Command and control workflows ~55 min
• Notifications ~50 min
• Mobile monitoring ~45 min

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• Where C# fits ~35 min
• Microcontrollers and Linux computers ~40 min
• .NET on Linux devices ~45 min
• GPIO, I2C, SPI and UART from .NET ~50 min
• A .NET gateway ~55 min
• ASP.NET Core IoT APIs ~50 min
• Simulators and test harnesses ~50 min
• Embedded .NET options ~35 min

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• Why Rust for firmware ~45 min
• Ownership meets hardware ~40 min
• Targets and cross-compilation ~40 min
• no_std and no_main ~45 min
• PACs, HALs and embedded-hal ~50 min
• What is supported where ~35 min

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• Blink with esp-hal ~40 min
• Interrupts and shared state ~45 min
• Async with Embassy ~55 min
• Logging and debugging ~40 min
• Testing Rust firmware ~55 min
• Calling C from Rust and back ~45 min
• Networking in Rust ~55 min
• Choosing Rust for a project ~35 min

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• Why IoT security is different ~40 min
• Threat modelling ~60 min
• Security baselines ~45 min
• Least privilege and segmentation ~50 min
• The cryptography you need ~50 min
• TLS, certificates and trust ~60 min
• Storing secrets on a device ~45 min
• Privacy and responsible telemetry ~40 min

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• Roots of trust and secure boot ~45 min
• Flash encryption ~40 min
• eFuses and the point of no return ~45 min
• Secure provisioning and device identity ~45 min
• Manufacturing provisioning ~50 min
• Debug ports and physical attacks ~40 min

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• Why OTA, and how it fails ~40 min
• Partition tables and A/B slots ~45 min
• Signing and verifying firmware ~50 min
• Rollback and recovery ~55 min
• Staged rollouts ~45 min
• Configuration and schema versioning ~45 min
• Crash diagnostics ~45 min
• Power failure and corruption ~45 min

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• Device testing and QA ~45 min
• Unit, integration and hardware-in-the-loop tests ~50 min
• Simulators and mock devices ~45 min
• CI for firmware ~50 min
• Reproducible builds and pinning ~50 min
• Versioning and releases ~45 min
• Field diagnostics ~45 min
• Regulation and radio certification ~45 min
• Production readiness reviews ~40 min

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• Local processing vs raw data ~40 min
• Filters on the device ~50 min
• Thresholds, rules and anomalies ~50 min
• Features from sensor windows ~55 min
• When not to use AI ~35 min

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• What TinyML is ~40 min
• Collecting and labelling data ~50 min
• Training a small classifier ~55 min
• Quantization and model size ~55 min
• Running a model on the ESP32 ~55 min
• RAM, flash and latency budgets ~50 min
• Keyword and audio events ~45 min
• Vision on capable hardware ~45 min
• Edge-to-cloud models ~50 min

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• Requirements and acceptance criteria ~40 min
• Component selection and the BOM ~40 min
• Wiring and schematic documentation ~35 min
• Code style and repository structure ~40 min
• Cost, manufacturability and maintainability ~40 min
• Documentation and handoffs ~40 min
• Design reviews and demos ~40 min

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• Home automation and buildings ~40 min
• Agriculture and water ~45 min
• Environmental and infrastructure monitoring ~45 min
• Industrial monitoring and predictive maintenance ~45 min
• Tracking, fleets and location ~45 min
• Wearables and assistive technology ~45 min
• Robotics and scientific instruments ~45 min
• Safety-critical limits ~40 min

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• Engineering a connected project ~50 min
• Capstone Wi-Fi environmental station ~60 min
• Capstone smart irrigation ~60 min
• Capstone home automation controller ~60 min
• Capstone multi-device IoT platform ~65 min
• Capstone industrial condition monitoring ~60 min
• Capstone secure OTA device fleet ~65 min
• Capstone embedded AI sensor ~60 min
• Capstone distributed monitoring network ~60 min
• Capstone robotics and motion control ~60 min
• Capstone BLE device and companion app ~60 min
• Capstone cross-language system ~60 min
• Capstone production-ready product ~75 min