IoT Foundations: Low-Power Wireless Networking

Explore the key technologies and foundations of low-power wireless networking for IoT.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Overview of Wireless Networking for IoT

• Low-power wireless networking use cases
• Wireless networking technologies
• Wireless personal area networking
• Wireless wide-area networking
• Challenge: Check the network technologies on your phone
• Solution: Check the network technologies on your phone

2. Low-Power IoT Wireless Network Basics and Architectures

• Wireless communication basics
• Wireless networking basics
• Power consumption on IoT device and wireless networks
• Basic wireless network topologies and architectures
• Learn IoT system architectures and elements
• IoT network security
• Challenge: Determine your network topology
• Solution: Determine your network topology

3. Low-Power IoT Data Communication Paradigms

• Data communication paradigms for IoT
• Data communication in IoT elements
• Understand key performance metrics
• Performance measurement
• Challenge: Determine the performance metrics
• Solution: Determine the performance metrics

4. Energy-Harvesting-Based Wireless Networking Technologies

• When to use this networking technology
• Energy-harvesting-based IoT devices
• Install EnOcean DolphinView
• Use EnOcean for IoT wireless networks
• Challenge: Connect a device with DolphinView
• Solution: Connect a device with DolphinView

5. Low-Power Wireless Personal-Area Networking Technologies

• When to use this networking technology?
• Use ZigBee for IoT wireless networks
• Use 6LoWPAN for IoT wireless networks
• Use Bluetooth Low Energy for IoT wireless networks

6. Low-Power Wide-Area Networking Technologies

• When to use this networking technology?
• LTE-based IoT wireless networks
• LoRaWAN for IoT wireless networks

7. Integrating Wireless Networking Technologies into an IoT System

• Understand the need for integration
• Integrate wireless networking options

8. Case Studies

• Case study: Building a lighting control system for smart homes
• Case study: Building a lighting control system for smart cities

Conclusion

• Next steps with low-power IoT