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# Weekly vblogs Applied IoT 2021

Agenda for our weekly blogs in the course Applied IoT 2021. This document will be updated during the course, and also live during the vblogs.

## W24

- What's happened this week?
    - Course intro
    - Intro to IoT, Francis
        - Quiz 1 is published
    - IoT and hardware, Anna Förster
- Hardware update?
- Workshop discussions
    - Atom.io - recommended (FREE)
    - VSCode (FREE)
- Quizzes and Canvas.
    - Don't forget to tag @canvas or @Birgitta if you need help with login.
- What's next week.
    - Monday - Osama et al. from Kalmar Energi
    - Wireless IoT introduction
        - Space and IoT! LoRa sat.
        - Introduce TTI. LoRaWAN. YT-video will be added.
    - And of course - workshops workshops! 
    - Starting up with hardware!

## W25

- How to find information? How the course is designed.
    - https://coursepress.lnu.se/courses/applied-iot/ is updated.
    - We love your feedback. THANKS.
- Experiences and lessons learned from workshops
    - Common problems and solutions.
- How to operate Discord?
    - Messy or not?
    - Mute and notifications
    - Minimise categories
    - Code snippets
    - Reply. Topics.
    - Search and you will find.
- Midsummer is soon here.
- Football or IoT, what is the priority? 
- Next week:
    - More sensors. More startup.
    - Sensebox. Datacake. Python.

## W26

- Activities for the current week (week26)
	- **senseBox** by Thomas Bartoschek
	- Datacake.co by Simon Kemper
	- Basic Python Programming
		- Quiz on Python is now open
    - You need to finish all quizzes.
	- Workshops
		- Basic hardware, sensor setup, blinking LED, etc.
	- Sign up for higher grade on #💯higher-grade
		- ~18 so far...
		- What do we mean by **higher grade**?

- Plans for the next week (week27)
	- "Sensor Online" https://sensor-online.se/en/ + www.iot-ab.se by Johan Stenström (Mon, Jul 5th)
	    - https://youtu.be/-7dGgF6A_ic
	- "The Peoples IoT Network: Helium and IoT applications" by Timothy Hess (Wed, Jul 7th)
	- Workshops (Tue & Thu)
		- Pybytes (cloud), Sending data to the cloud over Wifi, display data on dashboard
		- LoRa, SigFox
		
## W27

- Activities for the current week (week27)
	- [Sensor Online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7dGgF6A_ic) by Johan Stenström (Mon)
	- [The Peoples IoT Network: Helium and IoT applications](https://youtu.be/7ZR9lVKC6GY) by Timothy Hess (Wed)
	- Workshops
		- Pybytes (cloud), Sending data to the cloud over Wifi, display data on dashboard
		- LoRa, SigFox, Helium

- Sign up for higher grade on #💯higher-grade.
    - 28 so far (and growing)
    - Many awsome, interesting ideas...

- Plans for the next week (week28)
    - Sensative AB by Mats Petterson (Mon, Jul 12th)
        - www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAG2Zxf4bPk
	- Tele2 by Karin Edebo and Mattias Hahne (Tue, Jul 13th)
	- Backend, docker by Pietro (Wed, Jul 14th)
	- The Things Industries LoRaWAN by Jaime Trinidad (Thu, Jul 15th)
	- Workshops (Tue & Thu)
        - Catch up, getting everyone on the same page. 
        - Alternatives to pybytes: Datacake, ubidots (AWS, Google, IBM)
	- Quiz 3: IoT Infrastructure & Protocols
	    - To be published...


## W28

- Activities for the current week (week28)
    - [Sensative AB](www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAG2Zxf4bPk) by Mats Petterson (Mon)
	- [Tele2](https://youtu.be/Lh8JltltWII) by Karin Edebo and Mattias Hahne (Tue)
	- [Backend, Docker](https://youtu.be/8SLDFc_rMDI) by Pietro (Wed)
	- [The Things Industries LoRaWAN](https://youtu.be/2royB7DT8z4) by Jaime Trinidad (Thu)
	- Workshops (project related help)
- Plans for the next week (week29)
    - Intertek	Patrik Stolt (Mon, Jul 19th)
    - [TinyML and IoT Applications](https://youtu.be/yNUvraV8JqY) Vijay Janapa Reddi (Wed, Jul 21st)
    - Workshops to continue on **Tue, Jul 20th only** (project related help)
    - [Slow TV Day](https://www.youtube.com/cslnu) (Thu, Jul 22nd)
        - This will be big. :) Please join!
        - 09:30 Fredrik will start from home. IoT and automation in driving.
        - 10:00 Coffee at the office.
        - 11:00 3D-building project
        - 13:00 Lunch
        - 14:00 The book club; Guests; Bee hives; IoT for ships;
        - 16:00 .. 09:00 3D-printing stream
        - Later... Dinner and maybe some drinks.
- [Video instructions on Project Tutorial (Final Report)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM2kspcJrnM) is published.
- Quiz 3 on "IoT, Sensors, Infrastructure" is published on Canvas.
- Quiz 4 on "3D Printing Basics" to be published on week31, Fri, July 30th.
- Note the ***deadlines***:
    - Deadline for **final report (tutorial)** approching (project+report submission **week32, Mon, Aug 2nd**)
    - Deadline **peer review week32, Fri Aug 6th**
    - **Final Project Presentation week33 (Mon to Thu)**
        - Make a YT video or present live
    - week34: **final feedback and grading** (must submit your final report, finish all 4 quizzes, and do peer review)
        - Hard deadline for quizzes week33, Fri Aug 13th
        - Q1 (206), Q2 (156), Q3...
- [The Things Summer Academy](https://hopin.com/events/the-things-summer-academy) 16-20 Aug 2021 (free, but...)


## W29

- Activities for the current week (week29)
    - Intertek	Patrik Stolt (Tue, Jul 20th)
    - [TinyML and IoT Applications](https://youtu.be/yNUvraV8JqY) Vijay Janapa Reddi (Wed, Jul 21st)
    - Workshops (project related help)
    - [Slow TV Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93cED-0Sos) (Thu, Jul 22nd)
        - IoT and automation in driving, 3D-building project, Book club, Bee hive project, IoT in Ships, Data visualization, etc.
        - [Peter Aronsson](https://lnu.se/en/staff/peter.aronsson/), Rector, LNU
        - Pycom from UK
        - [Martin Gren](https://lnu.se/en/staff/martin.gren/), Professor, Human Geography, LNU
- Plans for the next week (week30)
    - Fog Computing and IoT on Wed, 28th July 18:00 by Neda Maleki
    - Final Workshop week: 27th Jul (Tue) and 29th Jul (Thu). Don't miss!
    - Quiz 4 on "3D Printing Basics" will be published.
- Note the ***deadlines***:
    - Deadline for **final report/tutorial** approching (project+report submission **week32, Mon, Aug 2nd**)
        - Feel free to make a YT video of your project demo
            - Put the link in the Tutorial/Final Report
        - Hard deadline for quizzes week33, Fri Aug 13th
        - Q1(212), Q2(182), Q3(101)...


## W30-1 (Mon)

- Make sure you do all quizzes
- Last minute questions
    - If I want a higher grade than C?
        - Fulfill the checkboxes.
        - Make sure you get a TA that puts you on the list.
        - Requirements for participation
            - Tutorial is everything
        - Unsure of complexity. Check tutorial Rubrics. Check with TA.
    - How to submit?
- **N.B. You must plan your presentation --->** [Google Sheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GL5S81_VkD2VHytxya91PiNM9zAU7-u7PY7bav8Jt0s/edit?usp=sharing)


## W30-2 (Fri)
- **This week activities:**
    - Fog Computing by Neda Maleki
    - Workshops...
- **Plans for following weeks:**
    - Tutorial/Final report submission on Aug 2nd Monday midnight
    - Peer review (to be assigned on Monday midnight)
        - Deadline Fri Aug 6th
    - Final presentations (for higher grades)
        - Pre-recorded YT video or live...
        - Mon to Wed (Aug 9th to 11th) between 14:00 and 18:00
        - Feel free to join if there are available slots
    - Reminder: Quizzes
        - Q1(215), Q2(191), Q3(151), Q4(124)


## W31
- Peer review
    - All 3 reviews done ~110
    - Deadline tonight (Aug 6th, Fri) 23:59
- Quizes
    - Q1 IoT basics: 216
    - Q2 Python basics: 198
    - Q3 IoT sensors and Infrastrure: **168!**
    - Q4 3D printing: **159!**
- Next week: Final presentation
    - Mon (9th, Fredrik), Tue (10th, Francis), Wed (11th, Francis)
    - [Presentation plan](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GL5S81_VkD2VHytxya91PiNM9zAU7-u7PY7bav8Jt0s/edit?usp=sharing)
        - Include the YT link to pre-recorded video
    - Only the presenter should join on StreamYard link
    - Rest follow on YT
    - Questions on Discord
    - Streaming is not public


## W32 - Final vblog

### Statistics!

- Total of 39 streams/lectures on Youtube. That is ~ 4/week
- More than 70th of planned workshops
- Since April 24th.
    - 10441 messages in Discord. More than 100 messages/day
    - 147769 minutes in audio/video. 2462h in total. (incl. AFK ...)
- 22 presentations, Monday - Wednesday.
    - 750+ applicants
    - 400 submitted.
    - 200 active students
    - 156 project reports
- Guests and teachers from:
    - ITCP, Trieste i Italien
    - University of Valencia i Spanien
    - University of Bremen i Tyskland
    - Harvard University, Boston, USA
    - Lund University, Lund, Sverige
    - The Things Industries, Amsterdam, Nederländerna
    - Helium, San Francisco, USA
    - Kalmar Energi, Kalmar, Sverige
    - Datacake, Múnster, Tyskland
    - Pycom, London, Storbrittannien
    - Sensebox, Bremen, Tyskland
    - Sensor-online, Skövde, Sverige
    - Intertek, Stockholm, Sverige
    - Sensative AB, Lund, Sverige
    - Tele2, Stockholm, Sverige
- Teaching assistans from:
    - Örebro Universitet
    - Umeå Universitet
    - Karlstads Universitet
    - Lunds Tekniska Högskola
    - Chalmers
    - Linnéuniversitetet





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