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This course provides learners with an overview of applications of digital technology across the value chain, including automation, monitoring and remote operations, to optimise the value extracted from a minerals deposit. It will also investigate how digitisation of the sector will likely change the required mining skills of the workforce, enhancing the safe exploitation of an orebody.

Learn how electronic gadgets are designed, developed, and built as embedded systems that shape the world.

This is part two of a two part sequence. In this class, we will use interrupts to design a range of real-time systems including an audio player, a data acquisition system, a control system, and an interactive game. This is a hands-on, learn-by-doing course that shows you how to build solutions to real-world problems using embedded systems. These courses use a bottom-up approach to problem solving, building gradually from simple interfacing of switches and LEDs to complex concepts like display drivers, digital to analog conversion, generation of sound, analog to digital conversion, motor control, graphics, interrupts, and communication. We will present both general principles and practical tips for building circuits and programming the microcontroller in the C programming language. You will develop debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and software instrumentation. Laboratory assignments are first performed in simulation, and then you will build and debug your system on the real microcontroller. At the conclusion of this course you will possess the knowledge to build your own arcade-style game from the ground up.

Spark your creativity with Arm. Level up your Embedded Systems skills by developing working embedded prototypes using the Mbed API and an Arm-based development board, and unlock the boundless opportunities of the Internet of Things.

This Specialization is intended for researchers and business experts seeking state-of-the-art knowledge in advanced science and technology. The 4 courses cover details on Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Storm), Smartphones, Smart Watches, Android, iOS, CPU/GPU/SoC, Mobile Communications (1G to 5G), Sensors, IoT, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LP-WAN, Cloud Computing, AR (Augmented Reality), Skype, YouTube, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-DASH, CDN, and Video Streaming Services. The Specialization includes projects on Big Data using IBM SPSS Statistics, AR applications, Cloud Computing using AWS (Amazon Web Service) EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), and Smartphone applications to analyze mobile communication, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth networks. The course contents are for expert level research, design, development, industrial strategic planning, business, administration, and management.

What you'll learn
Program the ESP8266, ESP32, or Raspberry Pi 3 to send data to AWS IoT Core
Connect to AWS free Tier and use relevant AWS services
Understand MQTT, JSON, IoT, and the AWS cloud
Become familair with device to cloud communication
Place IoT data into Dynamo DB by creating a table and data fields
Gain competency designing graphs and using analytics on IoT data
Code with basic programming structures in JavaScript, Python, and C
Use Node-Red to connect devices to AWS IoT
Get experience with many AWS services vital to IoT like DynamoDB and S3
Learn to Create Security certificates and policy's in AWS IoT

An IoT Essentials course to build a strong foundation in Enterprise IoT from Primary building blocks to IoT Architecture

What you'll learn
Students will develop a strong confidence on topic, Internet of Things
Understand the Different Application of Internet of Things.
Understand the Different Technology of Internet of Things.

What you'll learn
Internet of Things
Arduino Programming
Working with NodeMCU ESP8266
Publishing sensor data to cloud server
Subscribing data from cloud server
Google Assistance based Home Automation
MQTT
Adafruit IO
IFTTT
Firebase Database

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
-How to build an autonomous networked device, how to program and connect this device, how to use wireless networking protocols.

-Assembly of networked devices, programming of networked devices

What does the Internet of Things (IoT) mean to you? We are entering a new era in which “things” in the physical world are becoming connected digitally. Everything from light bulbs and baby socks to cars and coffee machines. What is possible in a world of connected, sensing, and interacting things?

This course is all about showing you how to use IoT to make life better. Or, put another way, you will learn the fundamentals of the Internet of Things (e.g., sensors, the cloud, and more) and be introduced to new interaction paradigms (augmented reality, wearables, and more) that are changing how we interact with the world around us. You will also learn how to design and create your own IoT prototype.

"This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5385, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.

Developing tomorrow's industrial infrastructure is a significant challenge. This course goes beyond the hype of consumer IoT to emphasize a much greater space for potential embedded system applications and growth: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), also known as Industry 4.0. Cisco’s CEO stated: “IoT overall is a $19 Trillion market. IIoT is a significant subset including digital oilfield, advanced manufacturing, power grid automation, and smart cities”.

This is part 1 of the specialization. The primary objective of this specialization is to closely examine emerging markets, technology trends, applications and skills required by engineering students, or working engineers, exploring career opportunities in the IIoT space. The structure of the course is intentionally wide and shallow: We will cover many topics, but will not go extremely deep into any one topic area, thereby providing a broad overview of the immense landscape of IIoT. There is one exception: We will study security in some depth as this is the most important topic for all """"Internet of Things"""" product development."

What you'll learn
Understand what Internet of Things are?
Controlling home appliances from anywhere in the world
Use some of the physical devices like Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Design some of the IoT applications
Attractive Dashboard design for different applications