Teaching

Seminar on "IoT basics using Docker Containers"

as part of Corsi di laurea magistrale in COMPUTER SCIENCE - Università di Padova, Italy March 2022

This course focuses on developing and prototyping IoT applications using Docker containers.
Containers are a lightweight approach to virtualization that developers can apply to rapidly develop, test, deploy, and update applications at scale. Docker is an open platform for container-based virtualization. Docker makes it fast and easy to build containers and deploy them anywhere: in a private or public cloud, within a local VM, or on physical hardware, including IoT devices.
The approach of the course is mainly practical, presenting the topic of IoT through examples based on Docker containers, integrating services and protocols like LoRAWAN, MQTT, REST, time-series database (e.g., InfluxDB), server agents (e.g., Telegraf), and so on.
Finally, the course will offer basic concepts on TinyML. TinyML is a rapidly growing area where machine learning technologies and applications, including hardware, algorithms, and software, can perform sensor data analysis on devices with extremely low power consumption. These solutions enable a variety of broader use cases targeting battery-powered devices.

1. IoT: Basic concepts (slides)
2. An introduction to Docker (slides)
3. Docker: The basics
4. Docker: Building an image
5. Docker: Networking with standalone containers
6. LoRaWAN: a low power IoT networking technology (slides)
7. The TIG Stack for the processing and visualization of data
8. MQTT: a pub/sub approach to data sharing (slides)
9. Containerized MQTT clients
10. Bridging with MQTT brokers
11. Docker Swarm to manage multiple containers
12. IoT at the edge: TinyML (slides)
13. TinyML hands-on examples
99. TinyML exercises with EdgeImpulse

All the material is available here.

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