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IoT & IT’S APPLICATIONS

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B.E. IV Semester-VII
Information & Communication
Technology

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Unit 1: Introduction to Internet of Things

1. Define IoT.
2. What are the “Things” in IoT?
3. Discuss characteristics of IoT.
4. What are the challenges in building application with IoT?
5. With a neat sketch, explain IoT stack with appropriate examples for
each layer.
6. What do you mean by enabling technologies of IoT? Explain about
each one of them in brief.
7. How IoT can be classified into different levels 1 to 5? Explain.
8. Explain the role of cloud in IoT.
9. What are the challenges in Big Data Analytics? (4Vs)
10. Write importance of communication protocols when it comes to IoT.
11. What are the major challenges in IoT?
12. Give difference between Cyber Physical System (CPS) Vs IoT.
13. Give difference between Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Vs IoT.

Unit 2: Sensors, Microcontrollers, and Their Interfacing

14. Mention the importance of sensors in IoT applications with

appropriate examples.
15. Explain classification of sensor and classify following sensors in each
category.
16. Explain, how _______ sensor can be used in any IoT application?
17. Mention procedure to connect ___________sensor with
microcontroller of your choice.
(In Q.14 , 15 & 16, any one of the following sensor can be asked:
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MQ02/05: Gas sensor, Obstacle sensor, Heartbeat sensor, Ultrasonic

sensor, Gyro sensor, LDR sensor, GPS, Color sensor, pH sensor)
18. How is microprocessor being different from microcontroller?
19. Write features of 8051 microcontroller and each feature in detail.
20. What are the features of ARM?
21. Explain ARM organization Core Data Flow Model.
22. Explain the architectural details of ARM7 while clearly mentioning
the usage of CPSR.
23. Explain clearly the register structure of ARM7.
24. Is ARM a microprocessor or microcontroller? Justify.
25. Which features of ARM increases its execution speed? Justify each
feature.
26. What do you mean by pipelining? Explain load and store instruction
in ARM7 with pipelining.

Unit 3: Protocols for IoT

27. Which are the different messaging protocols?

28. Explain importance of MQTT protocol with respect to IoT
infrastructure.
29. With NodeMCU, enumerate how MQTT can be used for subscribe –
publish process.
30. Explain functionality of MQTT protocol with any one application.
31. Explain how CoAP functions. Compare it with MQTT in operational
aspects.
32. Discuss the CoAP message types with relevant examples.
33. What are the applications of XMPP? Write its features.
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34. How XMPP can be implemented for any messaging application?

35. Explain architecture of DDS protocol. What is the difference
between DDS & MQTT?
36. Draw BLE stack and explain its components.
37. What are the possible topological options with BLE? Draw the
necessary diagrams and explain.
38. How is Li-Fi different from Wi-fi? Which one would you prefer and
why?
39. Explain functionalities of Li-Fi with suitable example.
40. Write advantages and disadvantages of Li-Fi.
41. Which are the different addressing protocols? What is the
importance of addressing in networking? Explain with example.
42. What is Internet Protocol? How many classes are there in IPv4?
43. How is IPv4 inferior to IPv6?
44. Compare packet formats of IPv4 & IPv6.
45. Explain importance of URI in networking.
46. What is the difference between URN & URL? Explain with example.

Unit 4: Cloud for IoT

47. List the different types of cloud computing.

48. What are the various cloud deployment models? List their merits
and demerits.
49. List challenges while opting for IoT & cloud computing. How can we
overcome them?

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50. On what basis should we choose Cloud Service Provider (CSP)? Are
there any guidelines to be followed?
51. What are the cloud security aspects in IoT infrastructure?
52. How is fog computing different from cloud computing?
53. Explain the advantages of fog computing.
54. How edge computing is different from fog computing?

Unit 5: Application Building with IoT

55. What are the potential advantages of IFTTT? How it is different from
other cloud services?
56. What parameters should be considered while developing any IoT
based applications? Draw common architecture of IoT based
application and explain each block in brief.
57. Explain following __________________ application with IoT
integration along with suitable block diagram. Explain each
component in brief. Following applications can be asked:
➢ Smart Perishable Tracking
➢ Smart Healthcare
➢ Smart Inflight Lavatory Maintenance
➢ Smart retail sector
➢ Smart Driverless assistance
➢ Collision Impact detection
➢ Water quality monitoring

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Unit 6: Arduino and Raspberry Pi

58. What are the features of Arduino Uno?
59. Explain following functions of Arduino programming: digitalWrite(),
digitalRead(), analogWrite(), analogRead(), Serial.begin(),
Serial.print(), map() etc.
60. Pseudocode can be asked for building any IoT based application.
(Write steps of programming).
61. What is Raspberry Pi? What are its potential applications?
62. Write features of any 1 model of Raspberry Pi.
63. Draw and explain architecture of Raspberry Pi.
64. What are the different operating systems of Raspberry Pi? Write
potential advantages of anyone.

Unit 7: IoT Security

65. What is the importance of Security in IoT based applications?

66. What the different types of security which should be provided in any
IoT based application?
67. Draw IoT Security Architecture and explain each layer in detail.
68. What are the security requirements of each layer?
69. What are the challenges in IoT security?
70. What is Mirai Botnet? Give its importance.

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