This course will be useful to IT professionals with baseline skills in computer hardware, software support, and development who want to learn how to design, develop, implement, operate, and manage Internet of Things devices and related systems. You'll begin by selecting an architecture for an IoT project and identifying the benefits and challenges of IoT. Then, you'll select a configure a processing unit, select a microcontroller power source, and use a software development kit (SDK) to program an IoT device.
Internet of Things: Foundations of Design and Development
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Internet of Things: Foundations of Design and Development
This course is part of Internet of Things (IoT) Practitioner (Exam ITP-110) Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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7 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
In this course, you will plan an IoT implementation and construct and program an IoT device.
Skills you'll gain
- Electrical Wiring
- System Configuration
- Information Technology Architecture
- Electric Power Systems
- Embedded Software
- PIC Microcontrollers
- USB
- General Networking
- Electrical Equipment
- Power Electronics
- Software Development
- Project Planning
- Embedded Systems
- Microarchitecture
- Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
- Internet Of Things
- Prototyping
- Basic Electrical Systems
- Electrical Power
- Software Development Tools
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December 2025
Assessments
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the Internet of Things (IoT) Practitioner (Exam ITP-110) Specialization
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There are 3 modules in this course
Before you can successfully plan and implement an Internet of Things (IoT) solution, you must understand the various factors that will drive your decisions, such as identifying what IoT can do for your organization, and the various business and technical challenges you'll need to address.
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Internet of Things (IoT) devices provide the foundation around which an IoT solution is constructed. Yet for many IT professionals, these devices may be the least familiar piece of the solution, involving embedded devices and constraints upon size, processing, memory, and energy consumption unlike those of traditional information technology systems.
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You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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