Internet of Things (IoT) Fundamentals

Internet of Things (IoT) Fundamentals

by Jerome Henry / Rob Barton
Released June 2017
Publisher(s): Cisco Press
ISBN: 0134667573

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Overview

By 2020, more than 50 billion “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices will be connected to the Internet. Those connections are already enabling radically new business models, capabilities, and applications, making IoT knowledge indispensable for executives and technologists alike. The IoT Fundamentals LiveLessons video training course offers 10 hours of expert instruction on all the essentials‚Äîfrom sensors and connectivity to data analytics and key industry applications.

Leading Cisco IoT experts Robert Barton and Jerome Henry illuminate core IoT technologies, components, and the building blocks of IoT solutions. They explore IoT network architecture and security considerations, show how to leverage the power of immense IoT data flows, and introduce important IoT applications in several key vertical markets.

Barton and Henry’s 19 well-organized lessons teach through real examples, easy-to-follow animations, and detailed audio explanations. Whatever your role in planning for, using, or building IoT technologies, IoT Fundamentals LiveLessons will help you start fast‚Äîand succeed.

Coverage includes

  • What IoT is and how it is transforming businesses
  • Common IoT challenges, building blocks, and architectures
  • Core IoT networking protocols, including the 802.15.4 and LPWA families
  • Models for protecting security and integrity in IoT networks
  • Simple, low-cost IoT networks for homes and small businesses
  • IPv6 adaptations for low power and lossy IoT networks
  • IoT management protocols, including CoAP, MQTT, and SCADA
  • Moving processing to the edge and to the “fog” layer
  • Using data analytics to maximize the value of IoT systems
  • Analyzing IoT data with Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, and the Hadoop ecosystem
  • Industry-specific techniques, smart objects, protocols, and analytic techniques
  • IoT for utilities, the smart grid, and energy efficiency
  • IoT for connected and self-driving cars, mass transit, and cargo transportation
  • IoT for manufacturing: reducing cost and accelerating delivery
  • IoT for smart and connected cities: lighting, parking, and public safety
  • IoT for safer, more efficient oil/gas production and mining

Skill Level

  • All levels

Learn How To

  • Plan, organize, build, and deploy end-to-end IoT solutions
  • Navigate today’s IoT product marketplace
  • Use maturing IoT technologies to solve many business and technical problems
  • Make sense of the full IoT protocol stack, from 802.15.4 and LPWA to IPv6 adaptations and management
  • Architect IoT networks for maximum security and integrity
  • Generate meaningful intelligence from the data your smart objects capture
  • Compare and use batch-level and real-time streaming analytics
  • Improve IoT system efficiency through fog and edge computing
  • Leverage key IoT applications for utilities, transportation, manufacturing, smart cities, public safety, oil/gas production, and mining

Who Should Take This Course

For wide audiences of IT, operations, and business professionals who want to plan for, deploy, secure, and leverage the benefits of IoT technologies. This course’s case study applications will have special appeal to professionals in a wide range of industries, including municipal and other government operations; building management; power, water, and gas utility engineering; transportation; telecommunications; manufacturing; energy, and many others.

Course Requirements

Requires basic knowledge of Internet and networking technology.

Table of Contents


Module 1: What is the Internet of Things?:
Lesson 1: An Introduction to IoT:
Lesson 2: IoT Architectures:


Module 2: Building an IoT Network:
Lesson 3: Sensors and Actuators:
Lesson 4: Connecting IoT Devices over Wireless with IEEE 802.15.4:
Lesson 5: Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs):
Lesson 6: IoT Connectivity for the Home Network:
Lesson 7: IPv6 Fundamentals for IoT:
Lesson 8: Management Protocols for IoT
Lesson 9: IoT Security:

Module 3: Harnessing the Data from IoT Devices:
Lesson 10: An Introduction to Analytics:
Lesson 11: Fog and Edge Computing:
Lesson 12: Data Analytics Architectures:

Module 4: IoT Considerations for Industry:
Lesson 13: Utilities and the Smart Grid:
Lesson 14: IoT for Transportation:
Lesson 15: Manufacturing:
Lesson 16: IoT for Connected and Smart Cities:
Lesson 17: IoT for Public Safety:
Lesson 18: Oil and Gas:
Lesson 19: IoT for Mining:

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Internet of Things Fundamentals: Introduction
  2. Module 1: What is the Internet of Things?
    1. Module Intro
  3. Lesson 1: An Introduction to IoT
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 1.1 What is IoT
    3. 1.2 IoT Building Blocks
    4. 1.3 IoT Connectivity
    5. 1.4 IoT and Internet
    6. 1.5 How IoT is Transforming Businesses
    7. Summary
  4. Lesson 2: IoT Architectures
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 2.1 IoT Architecture Requirements
    3. 2.2 Architecture Models
    4. 2.3 A Simplified Model
    5. 2.4 IoT Connectivity Landscape
    6. 2.5 Range, Throughput, and Scale
    7. Summary
  5. Module 2: Building an IoT Network
    1. Module Intro
  6. Lesson 3: Sensors and Actuators
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 3.1 Sensor Types
    3. 3.2 Sensing Actions
    4. 3.3 Actuators and MEMS
    5. 3.4 Smart Objects?
    6. 3.5 SANETs
    7. 3.6 WSNs
    8. 3.7 WSN Communication Protocols
    9. Summary
  7. Lesson 4: Connecting IoT Devices over Wireless with IEEE 802.15.4
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 4.1 Introduction to 802.15.4
    3. 4.2 802.15.4 Family of Protocols
    4. 4.3 802.15.4 Amendments
    5. 4.4 Topology
    6. 4.5 802.15.4g
    7. 4.6 802.15.4e and MAC Enhancements
    8. 4.7 ZigBee
    9. 4.8 802.15.4 Use Cases
    10. Summary
  8. Lesson 5: Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs)
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 5.1 The Emerging World of LPWANs
    3. 5.2 An Introduction of LoRaWAN
    4. 5.3 LoRa Radio Fundamentals
    5. 5.4 LoRaWAN Sensors and Devices
    6. 5.5 LoRaWAN Network Architecture
    7. 5.6 Use Case Examples
    8. Summary
  9. Lesson 6: IoT Connectivity for the Home Network
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 6.1 Home IoT Use Cases
    3. 6.2 Home IoT Protocols Requirements
    4. 6.3 NFC
    5. 6.4 Bluetooth
    6. 6.5 Wi-Fi
    7. 6.6 Introduction to IEEE 802.11ah
    8. Summary
  10. Lesson 7: IPv6 Fundamentals for IoT
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 7.1 Driving Forces for IPv6 in IoT
    3. 7.2 IPv6 and it's Place in an IoT Architecture
    4. 7.3 The IPv6 Adaptation Layer for Constrained Networks
    5. 7.4 Routing in IoT Networks: RPL
    6. 7.5 Legacy Device Support in IPv6 IoT Networks
    7. 7.6 IPv6 and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN)
    8. Summary
  11. Lesson 8: Management Protocols for IoT
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 8.1 Understanding the Need for Management Protocols for IoT
    3. 8.2 Understanding CoAP
    4. 8.3 Understanding MQTT
    5. 8.4 Understanding SCADA
    6. Summary
  12. Lesson 9: IoT Security
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 9.1 An Introduction to IoT and Industrial Security
    3. 9.2 IoT Security Key Principles
    4. 9.3 A Model for IoT Security
    5. 9.4 IoT Security Case Studies
    6. Summary
  13. Module 3: Harnessing the Data from IoT Devices
    1. Module Intro
  14. Lesson 10: An Introduction to Analytics
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 10.1 Analytics and IoT
    3. 10.2 Big Data Analytics
    4. 10.3 An Introduction to Machine Learning
    5. 10.4 Network Analytics
    6. Summary
  15. Lesson 11: Fog and Edge Computing
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 11.1 A New Paradigm in Computing
    3. 11.2 IoT Distributed Computing Architectures
    4. 11.3 Fog Building Blocks
    5. 11.4 Fog and Edge Computing Use Cases
    6. Summary
  16. Lesson 12: Data Analytics Architectures
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 12.1 Architectures for Big Data
    3. 12.2 Introduction to Hadoop
    4. 12.3 Hadoop Ecosystem Components
    5. 12.4 Real Time Analytics
    6. Summary
  17. Module 4: IoT Considerations for Industry
    1. Module Intro
  18. Lesson 13: Utilities and the Smart Grid
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 13.1 The Utility Industry
    3. 13.2 Substation Automation
    4. 13.3 Communications Over the Utility WAN
    5. 13.4 Field Area Networks (FANs)
    6. Summary
  19. Lesson 14: IoT for Transportation
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 14.1 Connected Car
    3. 14.2 V2X
    4. 14.3 V2X Applications
    5. 14.4 Connected Fleet and Mass Transit
    6. 14.5 Connected Rail
    7. Summary
  20. Lesson 15: Manufacturing
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 15.1 The Manufacturing Industry
    3. 15.2 IoT Industrial Network Architecture
    4. 15.3 Industrial Network Design Considerations
    5. 15.4 Industrial Protocols
    6. 15.5 Factory Security
    7. Summary
  21. Lesson 16: IoT for Connected and Smart Cities
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 16.1 Why IoT for Smart Cities
    3. 16.2 SCC IoT Architecture
    4. 16.3 SCC IoT Example—Lighting
    5. 16.4 SCC IoT Example—Parking
    6. Summary
  22. Lesson 17: IoT for Public Safety
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 17.1 IoT for Public Safety Landscape
    3. 17.2 IoT Blueprint for Public Safety
    4. 17.3 Mobile Emergency Responder
    5. 17.4 School Bus Safety Example
    6. Summary
  23. Lesson 18: Oil and Gas
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 18.1 The Oil and Gas Industry—Trends and Challenges
    3. 18.2 IoT Architectures for Oil and Gas
    4. 18.3 Securing IoT for Oil and Gas
    5. Summary
  24. Lesson 19: IoT for Mining
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 19.1 Why IoT for Mining
    3. 19.2 Why IoT for Mining Solutions
    4. 19.3 IoT Architecture for Mining
    5. Summary
  25. Summary
    1. Internet of Things Fundamentals: Summary

Product information

  • Title: Internet of Things (IoT) Fundamentals
  • Author(s): Jerome Henry / Rob Barton
  • Release date: June 2017
  • Publisher(s): Cisco Press
  • ISBN: 0134667573