The Internet Of Things
Notes for learning IOT at Microsoft IOT course for Beginners
Project can be done via virtual hardware
| Project Name | Concepts Taught | Learning Objectives | Linked Lesson | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Getting started | Introduction to IoT | Learn the basic principles of IoT and the basic building blocks of IoT solutions such as sensors and cloud services whilst you are setting up your first IoT device | Introduction to IoT | ✓ |
| 02 | Getting started | A deeper dive into IoT | Learn more about the components of an IoT system, as well as microcontrollers and single-board computers | A deeper dive into IoT | ✓ |
| 03 | Getting started | Interact with the physical world with sensors and actuators | Learn about sensors to gather data from the physical world, and actuators to send feedback, whilst you build a nightlight | Interact with the physical world with sensors and actuators | ✓ |
| 04 | Getting started | Connect your device to the Internet | Learn about how to connect an IoT device to the Internet to send and receive messages by connecting your nightlight to an MQTT broker | Connect your device to the Internet | ✓ |
| 05 | Farm | Predict plant growth | Learn how to predict plant growth using temperature data captured by an IoT device | Predict plant growth | ✓ |
| 06 | Farm | Detect soil moisture | Learn how to detect soil moisture and calibrate a soil moisture sensor | Detect soil moisture | ✓ |
| 07 | Farm | Automated plant watering | Learn how to automate and time watering using a relay and MQTT | Automated plant watering | ✓ |
| 08 | Farm | Migrate your plant to the cloud | Learn about the cloud and cloud-hosted IoT services and how to connect your plant to one of these instead of a public MQTT broker | Migrate your plant to the cloud | |
| 09 | Farm | Migrate your application logic to the cloud | Learn about how you can write application logic in the cloud that responds to IoT messages | Migrate your application logic to the cloud | |
| 10 | Farm | Keep your plant secure | Learn about security with IoT and how to keep your plant secure with keys and certificates | Keep your plant secure | |
| 11 | Transport | Location tracking | Learn about GPS location tracking for IoT devices | Location tracking | |
| 12 | Transport | Store location data | Learn how to store IoT data to be visualized or analysed later | Store location data | |
| 13 | Transport | Visualize location data | Learn about visualizing location data on a map, and how maps represent the real 3d world in 2 dimensions | Visualize location data | |
| 14 | Transport | Geofences | Learn about geofences, and how they can be used to alert when vehicles in the supply chain are close to their destination | Geofences | |
| 15 | Manufacturing | Train a fruit quality detector | Learn about training an image classifier in the cloud to detect fruit quality | Train a fruit quality detector | |
| 16 | Manufacturing | Check fruit quality from an IoT device | Learn about using your fruit quality detector from an IoT device | Check fruit quality from an IoT device | |
| 17 | Manufacturing | Run your fruit detector on the edge | Learn about running your fruit detector on an IoT device on the edge | Run your fruit detector on the edge | |
| 18 | Manufacturing | Trigger fruit quality detection from a sensor | Learn about triggering fruit quality detection from a sensor | Trigger fruit quality detection from a sensor | |
| 19 | Retail | Train a stock detector | Learn how to use object detection to train a stock detector to count stock in a shop | Train a stock detector | |
| 20 | Retail | Check stock from an IoT device | Learn how to check stock from an IoT device using an object detection model | Check stock from an IoT device | |
| 21 | Consumer | Recognize speech with an IoT device | Learn how to recognize speech from an IoT device to build a smart timer | Recognize speech with an IoT device | |
| 22 | Consumer | Understand language | Learn how to understand sentences spoken to an IoT device | Understand language | |
| 23 | Consumer | Set a timer and provide spoken feedback | Learn how to set a timer on an IoT device and give spoken feedback on when the timer is set and when it finishes | Set a timer and provide spoken feedback | |
| 24 | Consumer | Support multiple languages | Learn how to support multiple languages, both being spoken to and the responses from your smart timer | Support multiple languages |