IoT Research Lab

1. Objec(ves
a) To create an environment for research, design, development and tes6ng of IoT solu6ons, in the
field of energy management, communica6on systems, distributed sensor devices and advanced
user interfaces
b) To provide a large-scale IoT system for the collec6on of informa6on from the environment and its
transfer to a server/cloud, as well as the skills necessary for the development of control logics,
processing and display of data

Proposed IoT Laboratory will be equipped with devices for the monitoring home appliances, sensors for the
monitoring of environmental parameters such as temperature and humidity and the communica6on
infrastructure necessary to deliver the acquired informa6on to a server or cloud

2. Research Area
a) Communica6on Protocols for IoT— Networking Technologies, Standards and Protocols, Energy
Efficiency, Machine Learning, and Scheduling methods
b) Security— Security Protocols and Architectures for IoT
c) SoKware-Defined Networking— SoKware-Defined Networking (SDN) and SoKware-Defined
Wireless Networks for IoT
d) Edge and Fog Compu6ng— Edge and Fog Compu6ng using SDN-based Resource Alloca6on,
Virtualiza6on, and Enhancing Machine Learning on Resource-Constraint Devices
e) Embedded Systems— Design and Interfacing of Embedded Systems, Interfacing Sensors and
Actuators, and Power Measurement
f) Evalua6on and Modelling— Empirical, Simula6on-based, and Theore6cal Performance Evalua6on
of IoT Systems

3. Budget (Thrust Area Group wise )

Sl. Equipment Description Budget Source

No.
1 PowerEdge Intel® Xeon® Silver 4309Y 2.8G, 8C/16T, 10.4GT/s, 12M Cache, Turbo,
HT (105W) DDR4-2666 Rs. 3,14,000 /- https://www.dell.com/en-in/work/shop/dell-
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R550 Rack server/spd/poweredge-

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2 Universal The universal microcontroller development board is equipped with

various on board sensors and actuator interfaces that are required to Rs. 9500/-
Embedded design the embedded and IoT applications. The board is designed in
such a manner that it can be utilized with different microcontroller

Microcontroller interfaces by changing the daughter cards at the central part of the
board.

Development
Board

3 8051 Daughter This daughter card consist of 8051-based SST SST89V564RD

Microcontroller having following specifications: 25MHz, 3 volt with 32 Rs.1500/-
Boar I/O lines, 3 Timers/Counters, 9 Interrupts/4 priority levels, 64K+8K
FLASH, 1K on-chip RAM, SPI, Dual Data Pointers, WDT, 5-channel PCA.

( 2 Nos.)
4 ARM 7 This daughter card consist of LPC2148 microcontroller (founded by
Philips) which is an ARM7TDMI-S based high-performance 32- bit RISC Rs. 2,800/-
Daughter Board microcontroller with thumb extensions 512KB on-chip Flash ROM with
In- System Programming (ISP) and In-Application Programming (IAP),
32KB RAM, Vectored Interrupt Controller, Two 10bit ADCs with 14
channels, USB 2.0 Full Speed Device Controller, Two UARTs, one with full
modem interface. Two I2C serial interfaces, Two SPI serial interfaces
( 2 Nos.) Two 32-bit timers, Watchdog Timer, PWM unit, Real Time Clock with
optional battery backup, Brown out detect circuit General purpose I/O
pins. CPU clock up to 60 MHz, On-chip crystal oscillator and On- chip PLL.
AVR Daughter This daughter card consist of high- performance, low-power Microchip
8-bit AVR 8515 RISC-based microcontroller combines 8 KB of Rs. 2000/-
Board programmable Flash memory, 512B SRAM, up to 64 KB external SRAM,
and 512B EEPROM. The device supports a throughput of 16 MIPS at 16

( 2 Nos.) MHz and operates between 2.7- 5.5 volts.

Arduino Kit This daughter card is an Arduino Uno board ATmega328P

microcontroller and developed by Arduino.cc. The board has 14 digital Rs. 10000/-
I/O pins (six capable of PWM output), 6 analog I/O pins, and is
programmable with the Arduino IDE via a type B USB cable. It can be
powered by the USB cable or by an external 9-volt battery, though it
( 4 Nos.) accepts voltages between 7 and 20 volts.

Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is the latest product in the Raspberry Pi 3

range, boashng a 64-bit quad core processor running at 1.4GHz, dual- Rs. 20000/-
3B+ Original band 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2/BLE, faster Ethernet,
and PoE capability via a separate PoE HAT. The board has following

( 2 Nos.) specificahons:
Processor: Broadcom BCM2837B0, Cortex- A53 64-bit SoC @ 1.4GHz
Memory: 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM
Access: Extended 40-pin GPIO headerVideo & sound: 1 × full size HDMI,
MIPI DSI display port, MIPI CSI camera port, 4 pole stereo output and
composite video port. Micro SD format for loading operahng system and
data storage

Digital Storage A digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) is an oscilloscope which stores and
analyses the input signal digitally rather than using analog techniques. It Rs. 25000/-
Oscilloscope is now the most common type of oscilloscope in use because of the
advanced trigger, storage, display and measurement features which it
typically provides.

Zigbee Interface XBee radio family consist of various XBee RF modules. Each having
different specificahon. Generally, XBee modules operate within ISM 2.4 Rs. 4000/-
( 2 Nos.) GHz (Unlicensed) frequency band. XBee modules support ZigBee
protocol which is based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard. XBee modules have
source/deshnahon addressing feature with unicast and broadcast
communicahon support. They support point to point, point to
mulhpoint, peer to peer etc. communicahon topologies. XBee modules
uses DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) modulahon technique for
communicahon. XBee has on board features like Digital I/O pins, analog
ADC (10-bit) input pins, PWM output etc. It has serial UART pins for
communicahon with PC and Microcontrollers serially. Some XBee
modules (e.g. S2C) has support for SPI interface too.

GSM Interface SIM900A Modem can work with any GSM network operator SIM card
just like a mobile phone with its own unique phone number. SIM900A Rs. 3000/- https://www.amazon.in/SIM900A-Module-
RS232-Interface-Antenna/dp/B089QV7M12
GSM/GPRS modem is plug and play modem with RS232 serial
communication supported. Hence Advantage of using this modem will
be that its RS232 port can be used to communicate and develop
( 2 Nos.) embedded applications. Applications like SMS Control, data transfer,
remote control and logging can be developed. SIM900 modem supports
features like voice call, SMS, Data/Fax, GPRS etc.

RFID Interface adio frequency Idenhficahon (RFID) is a wireless idenhficahon

technology that uses radio waves to idenhfy the presence of RFID tags. Rs. 5000/- https://www.amazon.in/YHY502CG-Reader-
Writer-Module-

( 2 Nos.) Just like Bar code reader, RFID technology is used for idenhficahon of
people, object etc. RFID is used in many applicahons like asendance
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companies to provide access to their authorized employees. It is also
helpful to keep track of goods and in automated toll collechon system
on highway by embedding Tag (having unique ID) on them.

Bluetooth HC-05 is a Bluetooth module which is designed for wireless

communication. It is used for many applications like wireless headset, Rs. 3000/- https://robu.in/wp-
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Interface game controllers, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard and many more
consumer applications. It has range up to <100m which depends upon
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transmitter and receiver, atmosphere, geographic & urban conditions.

It is IEEE 802.15.1 standardized protocol, through which one can build
wireless Personal Area Network (PAN). It uses frequency-hopping
( 2 Nos.) spread spectrum (FHSS) radio technology to send data over air. It uses
serial communication to communicate with devices. It communicates
with microcontroller using serial port (USART).

Traffic Light Traffic light controller helps to manage the traffic and to maintain
proper traffic management. These systems are placed at the Rs. 2000/
Controller intersechons of the road or at the crossings to avoid congeshons and
accidents. The systems indicate to the driver by using different colours

Interface of light. Therefore it is simple to avoid congeshon at the intersechons.

( 2 Nos.)
Humidity + IR The DHT11 is a basic, low cost digital temperature and humidity sensor.
DHT11 is a single wire digital humidity and Rs. 500/- https://robokits.co.in/sensors/temperature-
humidity/htu21d-temperature-humidity-sensor-

Sensor Interface module-i2c-interface

temperature sensor, which

humidity and temperature
serially with one-wire protocol.
( 2 Nos.) sensor provides relative humidity value in percentage (20 to 90% RH)
and temperature values in degree Celsius (0 to 50 °C). DHT11 sensor
uses resistive humidity measurement component, and NTC temperature
measurement component.

IR light is like visible light but it is invisible to our eyes, because of which
they are suitable in application of wireless communication. The band for
IR (Infrared) in electromagnetic spectrum is 300GHz to 430 THz and
wavelength range of around 700nm to 1mm. Along with the IR LED some
other sources like sun, light bulbs, human and animal bodies etc. also
emit infrared energy. IR communication is used for short and medium
distance applications.

Accelerometer Accelerometer is an electromechanical device that measures the force Rs. 2000/- https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/gy-87-
10dof-mpu6050-hmc5883l-bmp180-sensor-

Sensor Interface of accelerahon due to gravity in g unit. It can be used in applicahons

requiring hlt sensing. The ADXL335 sensor measures accelerahon along
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STEVAL-MKI- The STEVAL-MKI190V1 is an adapter board designed to facilitate the

evaluation of MEMS devices in the LISDTW12 product family. The board Rs. 2500/- https://www.tanotis.com/products/stmicroelect
ronics-steval-mki195v1-adapter-board-mems-

119V1 Board offers an effective solution for fast system prototyping and device
evaluation directly within the user’s own application. The STEVAL-
motherboard

MKI190V1 can be plugged into a standard DIL 24 socket. The adapter

provides the complete LISDTW12 pin-out and comes ready-to-use with
the required decoupling capacitors on the VDD power supply line. This
adapter is supported by the STEVAL-MKI109V3 motherboard which
includes a high performance 32-bit microcontroller functioning as a
bridge between the sensor and a PC, on which it is possible to use the
downloadable graphical user interface (Unico GUI), or dedicated
software routines for customized applications.

STM3240G- The STM3240G-EVAL evaluahon board is a complete demonstrahon and

development plazorm for the STM32F407IGH6 high- performance 32- Rs. 2500/- https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-
tools/stm3240g-eval.html

EVAL Board bit microcontroller with ARM®Cortex®-M4F processor. The full range of
hardware features on the board helps users to evaluate all the
peripherals (USB-OTG HS, USB-OTG FS, and Ethernet, motor-control,
CAN, microSD TM-card, smartcard, USART, audio-DAC, RS-232, IrDA (up
to board MB786 C-07), SRAM, ST-MEMS, EEPROM and others) and to
develop applicahons.
The in-circuit ST-LINK/V2 tool can easily be used for JTAG and SWD
interface debugging and programming.

STM32 VL The STM32VLDISCOVERY discovery kit includes an STM32F100 Value

line microcontroller in a 64-pin LQFP and an in- circuit ST-LINK Rs. 2500/- https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-
tools/stm3240g-eval.html

Discovery Board debugger/programmer to debug discovery applications and other target

board applications.

All features:

Can supply target application with 3 V and 5V

Two user LEDs (green and blue) One user push-button

Extension header for all QFP64 I/Os

Total= Rs. 4,11,800/-

4. Justification of the Budget requirement

a. Details of Hardware : Server is required for execu`ng different applica`on program as
simulator (e.g. NS2/NS3 for WSN & MANET, COOJA for IoT, MININET for SDN, MATLAB for
CRN). IoT kits with microcontroller (Arduino & Raspberry Pi) and sensor interfaces can used
for experiments and cloud connec`vity.
b. Details of SoMware : No licensed soeware is asked.
5. Expected Outcome
a) Inves6gate a variety of emerging devices and technologies such as smart sensing, pervasive
connec6vity, virtual interfaces & ubiquitous compu6ng and their poten6al applica6ons in consumer,
retail, healthcare and industrial contexts
b) Collaborate on research with industry partners to address significant and complex challenges
surrounding IoT technologies and applica6ons
c) This may be used as a plaUorm for conduc6ng consultancy work required by government/Private
organiza6ons in na6onal or interna6onal level.
d) Enable faculty learning, research and hands-on experimenta6on to discover and demonstrate the
promise of the Internet of Things
e) Provide students unique interdisciplinary learning and innova6on experiences with IoT technologies