Vak: Data Connectivity credits: 4

The student can:

• describe components and structure of a typical IoT ecosystem and the challenges for networking within this system;
• describe selection criteria for IoT network solutions (within a business context);
• describe the most important IoT (IP and non-IP based) PAN, LAN and WAN network protocols and their properties; 
• describe network security threads and best practices to address these; 
• describe the architecture (components and interfaces) of a physical wireless link and design and implement such a link using standard commercial products; 
• design, implement and test an end-to-end IoT connection in a lab situation.