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IOT1 Internet of Things (IOT) on Microcontrollers

Building low-power IOT devices using standard microcontrollers

Objectives

Introduce the IoT ecosystem
Learn how to deploy an local open source IoT Platform
Describe the most used IoT Edge to Cloud Protocols (MQTT, MQTT-SN and CoAP)
Explore particularly heinous IoT focused attacks and security provisions at each level of stack (physical devices, communication systems and networks)
Learn how to configure the LwIP (with MQTT), FreeRTOS and MbedTLS for an STM32 IoT application
Understand the architecture of the Amazon FreeRTOS IOT libraries

Labs will be conducted on STM32-based boards connected through WiFi or Ethernet to a private cloud server

Prerequisites

Familiarity with C concepts and programming targeting the embedded world
Basic knowledge of embedded processors
Basic knowledge of multi-task scheduling
Basic Concepts of Cryptography
Basic knowledge of STM32 microcontrollers
FreeRTOS (one of the following):

RT3 – FreeRTOS Real-Time Programming
OS3 – FreeRTOS Programming
STG – STM32+FreeRTOS+LwIP/TouchGFX

If possible STM32 architecture
The following courses could be of interest:

AAM – ARM Cortex-M Architecture Course
L2 – C Language for Embedded MCUs course
STR9 – STM32 Peripherals Course

Course Environment

Theoretical course

PDF course material (in English) supplemented by a printed version for face-to-face courses.
Online courses are dispensed using the Teams video-conferencing system.
The trainer answers trainees' questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance.

Practical activities

Practical activities represent from 40% to 50% of course duration.
Code examples, exercises and solutions
For remote trainings:

One Online Linux PC per trainee for the practical activities.
The trainer has access to trainees' Online PCs for technical and pedagogical assistance.
QEMU Emulated board or physical board connected to the online PC (depending on the course).
Some Labs may be completed between sessions and are checked by the trainer on the next session.

For face-to-face trainings:

One PC (Linux ou Windows) for the practical activities with, if appropriate, a target board.
One PC for two trainees when there are more than 6 trainees.

For onsite trainings:

An installation and test manual is provided to allow preinstallation of the needed software.
The trainer come with target boards if needed during the practical activities (and bring them back at the end of the course).

Downloadable preconfigured virtual machine for post-course practical activities
At the start of each session the trainer will interact with the trainees to ensure the course fits their expectations and correct if needed

Target Audience

Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.

Evaluation modalities

The prerequisites indicated above are assessed before the training by the technical supervision of the traineein his company, or by the trainee himself in the exceptional case of an individual trainee.
Trainee progress is assessed in two different ways, depending on the course:

For courses lending themselves to practical exercises, the results of the exercises are checked by the trainer while, if necessary, helping trainees to carry them out by providing additional details.
Quizzes are offered at the end of sections that do not include practical exercises to verifythat the trainees have assimilated the points presented

At the end of the training, each trainee receives a certificate attesting that they have successfully completed the course.

In the event of a problem, discovered during the course, due to a lack of prerequisites by the trainee a different or additional training is offered to them, generally to reinforce their prerequisites,in agreement with their company manager if applicable.

First Day

Introduction to IoT

IoT potential
IoT Architecture and Core IoT Modules
Functional blocks of an IoT solution
The Essentials for Building IoT platform
Cloud Providers

Exercise:

Install and configure an open-source IoT platform

LwIP introduction

Overview
Buffer and memory management
LwIP configuration options
Network interfaces
MAC and IP address settings
IP processing
UDP processing
TCP processing
Interfacing the stack
Application Program Interface (API)
Standalone
Netconn and BSD socket library

MQTT Protocol

Publish-subscribe
Architecture details
Packet structure
Communication formats

Exercise:	Connect and publish CPU temperature
Exercise:	GPIO control over MQTT

Second Day

MQTT-SN

Architecture and topology
Transparent and aggregating gateways
Gateway advertisement and discovery
Differences between MQTT and MQTT-SN

Constrained Application Protocol

CoAP architecture details
CoAP Messaging Formats

IoT Security

IoT cyber attacks
Physical and hardware security

Key management and trusted platform modules
Processor and memory space
Storage security
Physical security

Cryptography

Symmetric cryptography
Asymmetric cryptography
Cryptographic hash (authentication and signing)
Public Key Infrastructure
Network Stack – Transport Layer Security

Best practices

MbedTLS Introduction

Encryption/Decryption module
Hashing Module
RNG module
SSL / TLS communication module
TCP / IP communication module
X.509 module

Exercise:

Two-way SSL connection using TLS with MbedTLS

Third Day

Amazon FreeRTOS

Amazon FreeRTOS Architecture
FreeRTOS Kernel Fundamentals Overview
Amazon FreeRTOS Libraries
Amazon FreeRTOS Console

Amazon FreeRTOS Libraries

Porting Libraries
Application Libraries
Common Libraries

Atomic Operations
Linear Containers
Logging
Static Memory
Task Pool

Configuring the Amazon FreeRTOS Libraries
Bluetooth Low Energy
AWS IoT Device Defender
AWS IoT Device Shadow
AWS IoT Greengrass
MQTT (v2.0.0 and v1.0.0)
HTTPS
Over-The-Air (OTA) Agent
Public Key Cryptography Standard (PKCS) #11
Secure Sockets
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Wi-Fi

Amazon FreeRTOS Porting

Porting FreeRTOS Kernel
Wi-Fi
TCP/IP
Secure Sockets
PKCS #11
TLS
MQTT
HTTPS
OTA
BLE

This course can be provided either remotely, in our Paris training center or, worldwide, on your premises.

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IOT1 Internet of Things (IOT) on Microcontrollers

Building low-power IOT devices using standard microcontrollers

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