Teaching Methodology for IoT Workshop Course Using Node-RED

Abstract

In recent years, due to the expected exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT), there is huge demand for adapting IoT in many key situations like day to day life, Industries, Healthcare systems, education systems, smart cites, smart grid, etc. It is also clearly evident that, IoT technology generates huge demand for job opportunities and revenues particularly in the Information technology sector. Thus, there is definite raising demand for IoT professionals. This aspect is highly motivating to teach IoT course as one the major courses for undergraduate engineering students at Universities. IoT is an amalgamation of hardware and software, the students should be exposed to learn and harness their skills in both concepts and technology thoroughly. In this paper, we proposed once such state-of-art laboratory based IoT course named IoT workshop and is offered for the undergraduate engineering students. In this paper, we discuss our experience to highlight need for IoT course, using Node-RED visual programming language, course content, learning objectives, assessment of course, and project ideas.