With the experience in Industry 4.0 and research in technology, we have built a comprehensive IoT Lab Kit to enhance the skills of students. We had designed a more open, rapid plug and play Prototyping Lab that will be compatible to the most popular protocols used for realization of IoT such as ZigBee, LoRaWAN, Wifi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, RS485/RS232, etc. The labs are setup as Self Sustainable and Sufficient Model which allows students to participate more and lesser amount of faculty’s time is consumed. The clarity of the roles and responsibilities allows running these labs in Sustainable and Sufficient mode.
Advantage of UCT IoT, LPWAN and Edge-AI Lab Setup:
Learning through the Hands-on approach is long-lasting impact hence it is important to emphasis on hands-on learning. The labs are setup as Self Sustainable and Sufficient Model which allows students to participate more and lesser amount of faculty’s time is consumed. The clarity of the roles and responsibilities allows running these labs in Sustainable and Sufficient mode.
Below are key objectives and Benefits of Industry driven/collaborative labs provided by us:
• To prepare the students for global competence, with core knowledge in Electronics and Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation/ Electrical Engineering/ Computer Engineering having the focus on research to meet the needs of industry.
• To effectively bridge the gap between industry and academics for effective communication skill, professional attitude and a desire to learn. Empower students to become skilled and ethical Entrepreneurs.
• To have excellent scientific and engineering breath as to comprehend, analyze, design and solve real life problems using state-of-the- art techniques.
• Build firmware for prototypes and technology explorations for the future of connected devices.
• Work in a system with smart embedded devices, backend web services, IoT, Cloud Computing, AI/ML, Big data etc.
• Contribute to the evolution of the mixture of clean technology and Internet of Thing.
Features and Technical Specifications
1. IoT Development Platform “ConnectiFY” With below features:
ADC interface
Zigbee interface
Wifi interface
Ethernet interface
Bluetooth interface
LCD interface
Serial interface
Led button and switches
Microcontrollers (8051, AVR, ARM, Arduino, NodeMCU)
Relay and buzzer
Motor driver
RTC and EEPROM
Sensor interface like:
Ultrasonic Sensor
Humidity and Temp Sensor
Infrared Sensor
Light sensor
Gas sensor
Moisture sensor
2. LoRADuino Board:
Arduino Uno
LoRa interface
LCD interface
Sensor interface like:
Ultrasonic Sensor
Temperature and Humidity Sensor
Air Quality Sensor
LDR Sensor
Accelerometer and Gyroscope Sensor (MPU6050)
Relay and Buzzer
Motor Driver
RS232
LED’s
Switches and Buttons
3. NodeMCU Sensor Board:
NodeMCU
Sensor interface like:
LDR Sensor
Temperature and Humidity Sensor
Air Quality Sensor
Ultrasonic Sensor
Accelerometer and Gyroscope Sensor (MPU6050)
OLED Display
LED
Switch and Push Button
4. Raspberry Pi Kit:
Quad Core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 64bit CPU
1GB RAM
BCM43438 wireless LAN and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) on board
100 Base Ethernet
40-pin extended GPIO
4 USB 2 ports
4 Pole stereo output and composite video port
Full size HDMI
CSI camera port for connecting a Raspberry Pi camera
DSI display port for connecting a Raspberry Pi touchscreen display
Micro SD port for loading your operating system and storing data
Upgraded switched Micro USB power source up to 2.5A
Breadboard of size: 2.2" x 3.4" (5.5 cm x 8.5 cm)
MikroBUS compatible Plug-in
5. LoRa Network Gateway:
Commercial Grade Indoor LoRaWAN® Network Gateway
Works on Semtech LoRa® Packet Forwarder
Default Ethernet Back-haul, Automatic Fallback to WiFi
Range up-to to 5 km Line of Sight
Ambient operating Temperature -20 to 75 °C
Suitable for small in-building Private LoRaWAN® Network
6. LoRa Network Server:
LoRa Network Server is a LoRaWAN® Application Server. It is responsible for the device "inventory" part of a LoRaWAN infrastructure, handling of join-request and the handling and encryption of application payloads. It offers a web-interface where users, organizations, applications and devices can be managed. For integration with external services, it offers a gRPC and RESTful API. Device data can be sent and / or received over MQTT, HTTP and be written directly into Database.
