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Module 1: Introduction, Basics and Case Studies from Power Utility Companies

  • Fundamentals of all technology stacks in IIoT
  • IoT adaptation rate in the Power Utility Market and how companies are aligning their future business models and operations around IoT
  • Broad Scale Application Areas
  • Smart Meter, Smart Car, Smart Grid: Brief definition, adoption, and challenges
  • Business Rule generation for IoT
  • 3-layered architecture of Big Data: Physical (Sensors), Communication, and Data Intelligence
  • Evolving standards and platform players like Azure, AWS, and Google: Brief introductions, offerings, and limitations

Module 2: Sensors, Hardware and Sensor Networks

  • Basic function and architecture of a sensor: Sensor body, mechanism, calibration, maintenance, cost/pricing structure, legacy vs. modern sensor networks—covering all sensor basics
  • Development of sensor electronics: IoT vs. legacy, open source vs. traditional PCB design styles
  • Development of Sensor communication protocols: From history to modern days, including legacy protocols like Modbus, relay, HART, to modern ones like Zigbee, Zwave, X10, Bluetooth, ANT, 6LoPAN, WiFi, NB-IoT, SignalFx, LORA
  • Powering options for sensors: Battery, solar, mobile, and PoE
  • Energy harvesting solutions for wearables
  • SoC (Sensors on Chips) and MEMS-based sensors
  • Sampling rate matching with application: Why it matters for business
  • What is a sensor network? What is an Ad-hoc network?
  • Wireless vs. Wireline networks
  • Autopairing and reconnection
  • Which applications to use and where
  • Mathematical exercises to determine the appropriate network selection

Module 3: Key Security and Risk Concerns in IoT

  • Firmware Patching risk: The 'soft belly' of IoT
  • Detailed review of IoT communication protocol security: Transport layers (NB-IoT, 4G, 5G, LORA, Zigbee, etc.) and Application layers (MQTT, Web Socket, etc.)
  • Vulnerability of API endpoints: Listing all possible APIs in IoT architecture
  • Vulnerability of gateway devices and services
  • Vulnerability of connected sensors via gateway communication
  • Vulnerability of gateway-to-server communication
  • Vulnerability of cloud database services in IoT
  • Vulnerability of application layers
  • Vulnerability of gateway management services: Local and cloud-based
  • Risk of log management in edge and non-edge architectures

Module 4: Machine learning, AI, Analytics for intelligent IoT

  • What is the return on investment for Intelligent IoT?
  • In Utilities: Power Quality, Energy management, and Other Analytics as a Service (AAS)
  • Introduction to Analytic Stacks in IoT: Feature extraction, Signal Processing, Machine learning
  • Introduction to digital signal processing
  • Fundamentals of analytics stacks in IoT applications
  • Learning classification techniques
  • Bayesian Prediction: Preparing training files
  • Support Vector Machine
  • Image and video analytics for IoT
  • Fraud and alert analytics through IoT
  • Real Time Analytics / Stream Analytics
  • Scalability issues of IoT and machine learning
  • FOG computing
  • Edge architecture

Module 5: Smart Metering - Standards, Security and Future

  • Smart Metering
  • Open Smart Grid Protocols (OSGP)
  • ANSI C 2.18 Protocols
  • NIST Standard for HAN (Home Area Network)
  • Home Plug Powerline Alliance
  • Security Standard for Smart Meter: IEC 62056
  • Security vulnerability of smart metering: Case studies

Module 6: Cloud Platform for IoT / IaaS / PaaS / SaaS for IoT

  • IaaS: Infrastructure as a service - evolving models
  • Mechanism of security breaches in the IoT layer for IaaS
  • Middleware for IaaS business implementation in healthcare, home automation, and farming
  • IaaS case study for vehicular information in auto-insurance and agriculture
  • PaaS: Platform as a service in IoT. Case studies of some IoT middleware
  • SaaS: Software/System as a service for IoT business models
  • Updates and patches via web-OTA mechanisms
  • Microsoft IoT Central as an example of a PaaS platform
  • Google IoT, AWS IoT PaaS platforms

Module 7: Future of Smart Grid and Smart Metering

  • EV charging as a service
  • EV as a Mobile battery and charger wallet
  • Large Battery storage: Hydro Battery, Lithium Battery, and other initiatives
  • Charging and storage as a service
  • Grid as a service for P2P energy trading
  • Use of distributed ledger technology in P2P energy trading: Blockchain, HyperLedger, and DAG
  • IOTA/TANGLE in P2P charging
  • IOTA/TANGLE in smart energy and smart contracts

Module 8: A few common IoT systems for Utility monetization

  • Home automation
  • Smart Parking
  • Energy optimization
  • Automotive: OBD / IaaS / PaaS for Insurance and Car parking
  • Mobile parking ticketing system
  • Indoor location tracking
  • Smart lighting for smart cities
  • Smart Waste Disposal system
  • Smart pollution control in cities

Module 9: Mobile IoT Modem, 4G, 5G, NB-IoT

  • 4G IoT standards for IoT: LTE-M applications, NB-IoT, UNB standard for 3GPP, 4G, LTE CAT-1 IoT
  • 5G IoT standard for IoT: LPWA, eMTC, IMT 2020 5G
  • Detailed architecture of IoT Mobile Modem
  • Security Vulnerability of 4G/5G and Radio Networks
  • IoT gateways: Architecture, classification, and security issues

Module 10: Managed IoT Service: IoT management layers

  • Sensor onboarding
  • Sensor mapping
  • Digital Twin
  • Asset management
  • Managing third-party devices and gateways
  • Managing sensor connectivity, gateway connectivity
  • Managing device and gateway health
  • Managing sensor calibration and QC
  • Managing OTA/Patching on a large scale
  • Managing Firmware, Middleware, and analytic builds in distributed systems
  • Security and risk management
  • API management
  • Log management

Module 11: Managing Critical Assets

  • Review of existing Fiber Optical Network, SCADA, PLC for Power Plants, Sub-stations, and critical transformers.
  • SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) of Dam systems: ICOLD standard for Dam monitoring
  • Upgrading from SCADA to local cloud-based systems (not public cloud)
  • SCADA/PLC to intelligent local cloud for more efficient management of Critical Assets
  • Strategy for new policy for adopting smart devices

Requirements

  • Should have basic knowledge of business operations, devices, electronic systems, and data systems
  • Must have a basic understanding of software and systems

Basic understanding of Statistics (at an Excel level)

Target Audience

  1. Decision-makers, strategists, and policymakers
  • Engineering Leaders, Lead developers, and Security Experts

Breakdown of the Module (Each module is 2 hours; customers can request any number of modules): Total 22 hours, 3 days

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