Design of IoT Infrastructure as Support Empirical Learning In IoT Laboratory

The digitalization of industry 4.0 is exponentially fast and constantly changing, affecting all aspects, technological aspects, and educational aspects. The Internet of Things, as part of industrial digitization technology 4.0 is an extraordinarily complex system, including embedded devices consisting of electronic components integrated and can communicate with each other. IoT has been very popular, and the number of smart devices is growing every day. So, we are talking about smart wearables, smart houses, smart cities, smart cars, smart healthcare, smart agriculture, etc. Unfortunately, for learning purposes, the available Internet of Things devices has not described the whole of the IoT system and how that works in a comprehensive and integrated manner. This paper presents a software-centric description of the entire IoT ecosystem’s design and implementation, covering aspects of hardware, communication protocol, and software. This IoT infrastructure system is used in the IoT laboratory as learning media, which is part of the information technology department’s curriculum at the State Polytechnic of Malang. At the end of the paper, we present the resultant system’s details, discuss lessons learned during the implementation, and identify the directions in which we are continuing the work.