Students who successfully complete this course unit will be able to:

1. Understand Internet of Things (IoT) fundamentals;
2. Characterize the components that make up a "thing" as an embedded system (sensor / actuator, microcontroller and communications interface);
3. Understand the challenges associated with the design and optimization of an embedded sensor / actuation system;
4. Understand the different low-power wireless technologies and the different protocols associated with IoT;
5. Plan an IoT infrastructure;
6. Integrate data obtained from an IoT platform using normalized APIs;
7. Define requirements and methods for extracting knowledge from raw data;
8. Understand IoT's security and privacy challenges;
9. Build and substantiate the business model and respective return on investment of an IoT use case.

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