The Samsung Summer School on IoT, organized under the new education initiative for universities, the Samsung IoT Academy, has concluded in Moscow. The course participants were chosen from leading Russian technical universities – 15 competitively selected students, and 8 teachers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Moscow Technological University (MIREA). During the week-long program, students gained theoretical knowledge of the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as practical experience in prototyping IoT solutions. The program took place from July 10th-14th, and was hosted by The School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at MIPT.
During the intensive 5-day course, participants studied key aspects of the fast-growing IoT industry. The bulk of the curriculum was based on practicing IoT programming: an introduction to MQTT essentials, C++/Python group projects, a demo of the procedure for gathering requirements from a customer and JavaScript essentials for the Tizen OS. As part of the program, students examined real-life case studies, and analyzed the technical implementation and economic factors of projects for integrating IoT solutions.
On the final day of the summer school, teams of students participated in a competition for the best idea for an IoT device idea. Using the knowledge they had gained, the students prepared presentations of their proposed devices, including a description of its technical implementation. The winning team in the competition proposed an IoT device to track cargo safety conditions in delivery services. Also winning awards were ideas for an alarm system for wild fires and a safety system for industrial climbers.
For the project, Samsung supplied study and practical materials developed by experts from the Samsung Research Center. We also provided equipment for the IoT laboratories, including sets of Unwired Devices (hardware for rapid prototyping connected through the LoRa wireless network), as well as Samsung Artik 10 microcomputers and other hi-tech devices. Leading experts in the IoT industry hosted lectures and workshops for the students. They included the executive director of IoT systems provider Unwired Devices, engineers from the Samsung Research Center, and teachers from MIPT, MIREA and St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (SPbSUT).
The IoT Summer School was organized as part of the Samsung IoT Academy. This project expands the company’s portfolio in the technical education arena, which currently includes the Samsung IT School – a program for high school students. The new project will enable students to attend a year-long course built around exploring real-life case studies of IoT implementation and develop their own IoT prototype devices. The pilot project will be in partnership with leading technical universities − MIPT and MIREA.
Andrey Raygorodsky, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, and Professor and Director of The School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at MIPT, said, “The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology is one of the country’s leading universities due to its combination of fundamental theoretical training and practical application of learned theory in a modern laboratory setting. We are delighted to see a new practical course on IoT at MIPT, offered by leading industry experts. Without a doubt, it will open up new opportunities for our students.”
Andrey Zuev, Head of the Institute of IT at MIREA and Candidate of Science (PhD) in Technology, said, “The mission of our institute is to train a skilled workforce in the field of IT technologies who are capable of developing, implementing and supporting systems of any scale, complexity or functionality. IoT is a new and very promising industry. We are grateful to Samsung for the opportunity to cooperate and launch education initiatives in this field at our institute.”
The first competition for student projects will take place in the spring of 2018 and in the future, these competitions will happen every year. In the summer of 2018, study results for this academic year will be analyzed. Next academic year (2018-2019), the project is set to launch on a federal level with laboratories being opened at several new universities. For the schools involved in the project, these IoT laboratories will become a center for developing skills in innovative areas and will open up new project opportunities.
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