The Internet of Things (IoT) is constantly changing: Every day thousands of device are joining and leaving dynamically. A lot of them communicate with local base stations (gateways) to exchange data or organise themselves. This constant device fluctuation imposes special requirements on to those gateways: joining and leaving of devices has to be detected without disrupting running services. In addition to that it has to be checked how new devices can be utilised in running services to use resource optimal.
The aim of this project is to implement a presence service for said tasks: Identify dynamic joining and leaving of devices in local IoT systems and perform necessary adaptations. The project will focus on the gateway. Tasks include, but are not limited to: research of existing strategies, design and implementation of such strategies as reusable libraries, integration into pre-existing communication patters, test of all features in real life and in source code, etc.

Requirements:

The project focuses on gateway developments and requires decent skills in Java programming. Experience with communication protocols, M2M communication, IoT devices and systems are nice to have but not a requirement.

The kickoff meeting for this project will be on the 14. Oct. 2019 at 16:00-18:00 in Room BC 303. Attendance in the kickoff meeting is mandatory for participation in this project.

This project is limited to Bachelor/Master Angewandte Informatik and Master ISE Computer Engineering

The requirements for hardware used in Internet of Things(IoT) applications are increasing so much, that classic embedded hardware components are not sufficient anymore. New IoT-applications require machine learning, computer vision or self-organisation, often even with real time constraints. For this reason the Embedded Systems Department has developed a new type of embedded hardware platform that combines the advantages of classical 8-bit Microcontrollers with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA): The Elastic Node Platform. To further evaluate the performance capabilities of this heterogeneous multiprocessor system for embedded applications we developed a variation of the Elastic Node, replacing the 8-bit with an 32-bit ARM processor.

The goal of this project is to extend the existing system software of the Elastic Node platform to include the 32-bit ARM variation. The focus of the project lies on the development of the new software components providing an hardware abstraction layer that mediates between the platformspecifics of the new processor type and the programming API of the system software.

Requirements:

As the project will completely focus on the development on microcontrollers good knowledge of programming in C is required. Any previous knowledge in embedded technologies and development for such systems without an operating system, including using I2C, SPI or wireless technologies such as 802.15.4 are beneficial but not required.

The kickoff meeting for this project will be on the 14. Oct. 2019 at 16:00-18:00 in Room BC 303. Attendance in the kickoff meeting is mandatory for participation in this project.

This project is limited to Bachelor/Master Angewandte Informatik and Master ISE Computer Engineering

To be able to tackle the challenges of coming applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) different types of hardware need to be included, that can solve certain problem classes more efficiently. An alternative to microcontrollers are reconfigurable hardware devices such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). The topic of this seminar will be the development of applications for reconfigurable hardware with the focus on FPGAs. During this seminar students will learn the theoretical background behind FPGAs as well as the development language VHDL. Additionally, students will work on practical exercises with hardware during the seminar and program devices in VHDL to apply and deepen the learned theoretical concepts. The students will write an extended abstract as well as develop a VHDL application for the final grade. Details will be disclosed during the kickoff-meeting.

The kickoff-meeting for this seminar will be on the following date: 15.10.2019, 14:00-16:00, Room BK 009. Attendence in the kickoff-meeting is mandatory for the participation as all information for registering for the project will only be presented there.