INTERNET OF THINGS – AN INTRODUCTION

C-DAC Chennai
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• Agenda
• Prerequisites
• Course Layout
• Introduction to IoT
• Introduction to Linux

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• Prerequisites
• Linux
• Microcontrollers
• Scripting
• Protocols/ Standards

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•Course Layout
–Administrative
•Day x (Dx) Theory x (Tx) - DxTx
•Day x (Dx) Lab. X (Lx) – DxLx
•Examination
–Technical
•Introduction to Linux
•Introduction to Scripting Language (Python, Shell)
•Introduction to Raspberry Pi
•Interfacing
•IoT overview
•IoT & Cloud Services
•Android programming
•Case Study
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•Linux
–What is Operating System
–What is “Open Source” – Different types of
Licensing
–History of Linux
–Basic (frequently used) commands in Linux
–What is an “Embedded” operating System
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•Operating System
–Interface between user and computer hardware
–Provide layer of abstraction Microsoft Windows
–Performs Linux
•Memory management MacOS
Mobile OS
•Task (process) management
Embedded OS
•File management
•I/O handling (Device Management) Bootloader
•Controlling peripheral devices Kernel
•Security Daemons
Shell
–Provides Graphical sever
•User interface : CLI/ GUI Desktop
Environment
•API Drivers
Applications
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•Open Source Vs. Proprietary
–Software developed by and for the users
–Typically free (charged for support)
–Share and learn through collaboration
–Source code available for modification – same license as
original
–Freely redistributable
•License Free Software Foundation

–Copyright/ Copyleft
–GNU/GPL
–BSD
–MIT
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•Intro to Linux
–OS
Linus Torvalds 1991
–Free (and Open Source) Master’s Thesis
–Virus/ Malware free No Annoying Reboots
–Very highly stable
–Ported from microcontrollers to Supercomputers
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•Linux System Architecture

Pic courtesy: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/operating_system/os_linux.htm

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• Live CD
• In Linux – everything is a file
–File & Folder Permissions
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•Linux
All file attributes are kept in a separate area of the hard disk,
not directly accessible to humans, but only to the kernel.
•File Categories
–Ordinary File – also known as regular file. It contains only
data as a stream of characters.
– Directory File – it contains the file name and a no.
associated with each name.
– Device File – All devices are represented by files. To read
or write a device, the operation has to be performed on its
associated file.
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•Frequently used Linux commands
man Vi rmdir Which Ctrl+c

Ls Gcc info Echo Tar

Pwd Make find Touch Rpm/ apt-get/

dpkg

Cd Shell grep date Ping

Mkdir Cp ps Exit clear

Rm mv kill su ssh

Mount/umount more Who/whoami chmod diff

init less redirection ifconfig cat