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University of California San Diego

Internet of Things: Sensing and Actuation From Devices

Have you wondered how information from physical devices in the real world gets communicated to Smartphone processors? Do you want to make informed design decisions about sampling frequencies and bit-width requirements for various kinds of sensors? Do you want to gain expertise to affect the real world with actuators such as stepper motors, LEDs and generate notifications? In this course, you will learn to interface common sensors and actuators to the DragonBoard™ 410c hardware. You will then develop software to acquire sensory data, process the data and actuate stepper motors, LEDs, etc. for use in mobile-enabled products. Along the way, you’ll learn to apply both analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion concepts. Learning Goals: After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Estimate sampling frequency and bit-width required for different sensors. 2. Program GPIOs (general purpose input/output pins) to enable communication between the DragonBoard 410c and common sensors. 3. Write data acquisition code for sensors such as passive and active infrared (IR) sensors, microphones, cameras, GPS, accelerometers, ultrasonic sensors, etc. 4. Write applications that process sensor data and take specific actions, such as stepper motors, LED matrices for digital signage and gaming, etc.

Status: Peripheral Devices
Status: Wireless Networks
Course17 hours

Featured reviews

JC

5.0Reviewed Feb 8, 2018

Excellent, I recommend this course and specialization.

SH

5.0Reviewed May 15, 2021

An exceptional Course on IOT , covering a vast array of important topics. Thank you Coursera!

IB

5.0Reviewed Jun 18, 2022

Extremely well organized and detailed course.Well explained with proper materials to gain,revise and record the knowledge received while going through the course.

HK

5.0Reviewed Aug 28, 2017

A very good foundation course on sensing and actuation

TD

5.0Reviewed Mar 16, 2021

to be honest, it is interesting to have such experience from this platform, and I really appreciate

AP

4.0Reviewed Oct 18, 2016

Its an awesome course and really teaches some cool stuff!

DS

5.0Reviewed Jun 22, 2020

Very nice course got very good experience about it everything was explained in detail thank you

SK

5.0Reviewed Jun 20, 2016

Great and Excellent thoughts and course material.

JB

4.0Reviewed Jan 3, 2016

Thank you for this course. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot.

MB

5.0Reviewed May 29, 2020

Wonderful course of Coursera and faculty members having clear cut through knowledge. Thank you very much

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