The first lesson

About us

Johanna

• Media Technology and Design student
• Programming languages: C++, Java, Python, ...
• Experience with micro controllers: None
• Experience with board computer: None, but has heard of Raspberry Pi
• Not part of a maker community
• Knowledge about IoT: Knows that it includes Smart Homes, Smart Health and so on...
• Actually wants to know what micro controllers, board computers, etc. are

Stijn

• 2.5 years ago is the last time I had to make a physical prototype. I made a shower with motors, LCD and LEDs with arduino and C#. Ive also worked a bit with LEGO mindstorms for a half year (code based).
• I feel way more familiar with Java since I have been programming in that language for the majority of the time.
• I never worked with IoT, but I am looking forward to work with it.

Research

Domains

• Wearables
• Smart Health
• Smart Home
• Agriculture
• Manufacturing
• Logistics
• Healthcare
• Retail
• Sports
• Smart City
• Automobile
• Energygrid
• Communication

Protocols

• MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport)
• CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol)
• AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol)
• HTTP
• TCP/IP

Devices

• Voice Controller
• Smart Air Quality Monitor
• Smart Coffee Machine
• Smart Irrigation Controller
• Smart Car
• Smart Mowing Machine
• Smart Room Designer
• Smart Watch
• An alarm that when it goes off starts your coffee machine
• Smart Light (motion detector at the stairs for example)
• smart vacuumcleaner
• smart heating system
• Smart Fridge (check stock of fridge)
• automatic Law-mower
• Chinas citizen observatory system

...and many more. Results were discussed and shared. After watching a few videos, more information was added and benefits and disadvantages were added. To help stream the videos without any loss of quality, we helped Ulrich to set up a Watch2gether room.

Benefits of IoT

• Saves time
• Saves effort
• Easy to control
• Easy to monitor
• ...

Disadvantages of IoT

• No electricity = no IoT
• Loss of privacy
• Is hard to adapt in healthcare system (who's gonna pay?)
• If everything relates to each other, one fatal error could destroy the whole system
• regulation by the government can restrict IoT

In the end we collected everything on Google Docs.