450-4084/02 – Mobile Information Technologies in Control (MITŘ)
| Gurantor department | Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jaromír Konečný, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jaromír Konečný, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | | |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course focuses on the key trends in modern software development for mobile applications, with an emphasis on the Android operating system and its use in industry as well as in measurement and control applications. The practical exercises cover fundamental proficiency in current technologies used for building mobile applications. The exercises are oriented toward core principles of Android application development, with a focus on using built-in sensors and wireless communication with telemetry units.
Students will understand the main trends in modern software development for Android operating systems and will learn to create applications for mobile platforms with an emphasis on connectivity to control technologies and the use of the sensors available on mobile devices.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial)
Summary
Upon successful completion of the course, the student:
– designs and implements a mobile application for a control or biomedical application,
– applies mobile application programming principles in the Android operating system environment,
– processes data from mobile device sensors and telemetry units,
– integrates Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Wi-Fi wireless communication technologies into a mobile application,
– connects a mobile application to a supervisory system using appropriate communication protocols.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Continuous examination of the course: During the semester the student passes the project for 40 points in the credits by a written exam for 60 points (min 30 points). Overall rating 51 - 100 points according to the study order.
E-learning
Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en
Other requirements
80% attendance at the exercises is required.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to mobile technologies in control systems; motivation for the subject
2. APIs for communicating with peripherals in the Android operating system
3. Use of sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetic compass, pressure (altitude) sensor, humidity sensor, light sensor
4. Wireless communication with telemetry units: Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE
5. Wireless communication with industrial technology: communication via Wi-Fi
6. Wireless communication with supervisory systems: communication with backend servers using web requests and MQTT
7. Transmission protocols for communication with telemetry units (RFC1662, GATT, …)
8. Server-side events and push notifications
9. Audio recording and audio signal processing
10. Audio generation, frequency synthesis, machine-readable codes
11. Use of sensors: camera, image capture, processing data from the camera
12. Real-time image processing; demonstration application
13. Modern approaches to using mobile devices in industry
Laboratory Exercises will take place in these circles
• Programing on suitable platform fo the Android application development
• Sensor utilization and sensor data processing on the Android operating system
• Use the wireless communication options (especially Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi) of the Android operating system
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction