Introduction

Associate Professor Dr Muhammad Ehsan Rana

A very warm welcome to the Building IoT Applications (BIA) elective module for the DSBA pathway.  My name is Muhammad Ehsan Rana and I am your instructor for this module. I hold a master’s qualification in both Computer Science and Mathematics and obtained my PhD in Software Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia. I possess more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and academic management. I am currently working as an Associate Professor at the Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU), Malaysia. I have authored and co-authored more than 100 journal articles, conference publications and book chapters in the areas of Software Architecture, Cloud Computing, IoT and Blockchain. I am also a reviewer of several indexed journals and have participated in the organization of IEEE and other international conferences.

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Please do reach out to me if you have any queries or questions.  Best of luck and I hope you enjoy the module!

In this module, the focus will be to enable students to be familiar with various Internet of Things (IoT) architecture and design technologies. This module describes some of the critical components of IoT through enterprise IoT stack. In the end, students should understand how to incrementally design IoT applications using appropriate IoT cloud platforms.

At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

• Justify IoT architecture design and IoT building blocks for various consumer and industrial use cases.                                   
• Demonstrate the ability to design an IoT application architecture using appropriate tools and technologies.                                   
• Propose measures to improve the security of the IoT network and ensure continuity of operations in the face of cyber-attacks or other disasters.