OpenIoT & ELC 2016

The IoT has experienced rapid growth and is expected to reach record number of users and connected devices in the following years.

In this talk we focus on the educational aspects of IoT. The presentation describes our first attempts to deliver an IoT course and the difficulties we encountered on the way. Based on this experience we have successfully proposed a new approach to IoT education.

Our solution transfers the accessibility typical of Arduino systems to Raspberry Pi and centres around: ease of use and increased productivity. This is achieved by introducing an open source web based platform which gives fast access to embedded boards and offers a new level of abstracting that avoids the need for detailed knowhow of the embedded platform. This allows the students to focus on the main characteristics of building an IoT system.