Design of Internet Based Embedded Systems. 3 credits, 4 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ECET 411 . Restrictions: Junior or Senior Standing. This course explores the fundamental technologies required to build modern embedded systems that are utilized and controlled over the internet. Students learn the basics of foundational internet technologies and data structures such as IoT basics, HTTP requests and response methods, REST web service structures, client/server model topologies, JSON data representation, apache web server, HTTP / IP routing basics, PHP, MySQL, and linux basics. The course explores combinations of these technologies to form complete client/server communication systems that are specifically design for control and utilization of embedded systems using web based communication. The course concludes with a final project where students design an internet based embedded system that can be controlled, monitored, and utilized over the internet.