IoT, Microcontrollers (5 ECTS)

Location and time

Online study. Within the given period the students can individually decide the timing of studying the fundamentals and completing the tasks.

Materials

Detailed technical descriptions published in writing and in videos by the ARM Mbed OS development team and by other experts will be used. For finding solutions for the exercises we will study some chapters from the book Designing embedded systems and the internet of things (IoT) with the ARM® MbedTM, Xiao, Perry , John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2018, First edition. For registered students the book will be available as an e-book at hamk.finna.fi. There will be a number of instruction videos for helping to complete the exercises.

Employer connections

This short course implementation does not include training in industry. The technologies studied are those which are common and contemporary in working life.

Exam schedules

Several small exams needs to be passed during the course implementation.

International connections

No international activities involved.

Completion alternatives

Can be agreed with the teacher and the head of study program.

Evaluation methods and criteria

There are automatically evaluated tasks where the points gained from completed tasks will be visible for the student just after task completion. There are individually evaluated reports which will be evaluated at the end of the course period. The evaluation is based on points awarded in the exercise tasks and short course exams.

Student workload

It will be possible for the students to plan individual time schedule within the given time period.

Content scheduling

Online study. Within the given period the students can individually decide the timing of studying the fundamentals and completing the tasks. Content and time allocation can be seen on the e-learning environment Learn/Moodle. The e-learning environment will be accessible to students who are enrolled and accepted as students.

Teaching methods

Interface technologies for the micro controllers will be studied and practiced both by completing development tasks in an electronic design automation, EDA, tool and by practising with hardware modules. Programming will be practiced with exercises on general programming techniques and on exercises on implementing methods typical for a real time operating system for micro controllers. The operating system is the ARM Mbed OS and the development tool the Keil Studio Cloud. The developed code will be tested on micro controller hardware. The development tools used for various tasks are online tools and will not require installations on computer.

Further information

HAMK students will enrol on the Pakki portal and Turku UAS students on Peppi. Students from other universities will enrol by completing a form which will be available on the campusonline.fi portal. The enrolment period for the Campus Online students will be given on the campusonline.fi portal. The study does not require anything special on students computer. For the exercises conducted on video it is recommended for a student to use two monitors or one monitor which is large enough. For the course coding and testing tasks the student will get a small hardware kit for the period of the course. The kit will be sent to those students who have succeeded in completing the exercises scheduled for the first two weeks. ( The kit will not be sent outside Finland. ) When a student would like to develop a micro controller solution according to his/her own specification it will be advised to reserve 100 e for investing on the development hardware. 30 enrolled Campus Online students and 15 enrolled HAMK students can participate in the course. CampusOnline students will be able to give course feedback via browser at https://pakki.hamk.fi/spark.

Evaluation scale

1-5

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