Embedded IoT Course

Salary levels for the students who are placed purely depend on companies hiring for fresher jobs. As per our statistics, Emertxe has placed students in the range between INR 2.0L to INR 19.5 Lakhs per annum CTC.

As a mentoring team, we strongly advise our students not to decide on a company purely by looking into salary levels rather look into the nature of work, the exposure you will be getting and the type of projects that they are working on. This will ensure you always stay on a continuous learning path and become a critical contributing team member of the organization. This will ensure in a long term your salary levels grow in a very healthy phase, sometimes get more paid than even market standards.

In summary, it’s all a skill-game! The more skilled you are the more pay you get and grow it on a sustainable basis over a long period of time.

Please check our Emertxe – placements page to get details of recent placement companies recruiting for fresher jobs. We strongly recommend you to connect with our Emertxe – Facebook page to get regular updates on companies visited and much more information related to embedded industry.

IoT or Internet of Things is a very broad term which can open up a whole range of career possibilities for you. Some of them can be categorized as:

• Program and develop an IoT device which can be non-OS based development
• Design and develop an IoT gateway which is OS based and IoT application programming oriented
• Networking and protocols – Integrating IoT with popular cloud platforms (OpenSource / Commercial) platforms
• Customizing and configuring IoT platforms
• Testing of IoT solutions (Functional / Non-functional / Integration testing)

To get more detailed perspective please refer to our
IoT Career Guide document, which gives a very simple and detailed  explanation for any engineering freshers who aspires to build a career in IoT domain.

Technically companies expect primarily three things from students:

• Strong foundation in basic electronics (ex: Digital electronics)
• Excellent problem solving skills (ex: Algorithms)
• Core Embedded IoT programming skills in one or two programming languages (C & Python) in any standard hardware platforms like Raspberry Pi and Arduino and application development experience using standard IoT protocols on the above mentioned hardware. Integration experience of the developed IoT applications on standard IoT Cloud platforms are also sought after.

This scenario though very rare at Emertxe, always poses a big question mark to the fresher/students. In case a student faces such a scenario after doing a course, students are provided with additional projects to continue working and enhancing their skills. This till build real-time project experience and increases the chances of getting jobs.

Typically placements for our IoT Students at Emertxe start in 3rd or 4th month onward once students complete programming languages modules (Programming in Python and C modules). However placements will continue in the remaining part of the course and even after end of the course.

Emertxe provides a written commitment to every student regarding placement opportunities in IoT for Freshers in core IoT companies, which is more than enough to convert it into a job.

Every student goes through rigorous training in all the IoT modules with continuous assessment. As long as you regularly follow the classes, assignments and mini-projects, you will not face any issue in getting a job through our placement cell. As per our statistics, every student who has completed their course assignments and their assigned projects in IoT gets placed by their 3rd to 4th interview. To get a view about what our past students has to say, visit our Emertxe - YouTube channel, to get more details on placement and our training & placement record.

Emertxe’s trainings and placement division which has direct contacts with more than 400+ Embedded and IoT companies in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune etc who look for hiring skilled engineering freshers. These companies who seek qualified IoT resources, are aware of our course syllabus, training methodology and industry expertise of our mentoring team. By hiring our trained candidates in IoT domain, companies benefit in terms of faster deployment, lower cost and better hiring conversion. Hence Emertxe is one of the most sought after IT finishing schools for core companies – start-ups, mid-size organizations and large scale MNCs. Every month minimum 25-30 placement companies participate in hiring our students at Emertxe, Pls refer our embedded placements page for details..

On the technical delivery side Emertxe training programs are rigorous and practical in nature where students go through immersive learning experience. This means every session, every day is a learning day, where students are continuously working building and up-skilling their practical skills in IoT and embedded programming. As a proof of output students will be producing average of 40 assignments / module and 7 to 8 IoT projects in their resume by the end of the course. This up-skilling process resolves the industry-academia gap by making entry level engineers employable.

When these skilled students face placement companies a win-win proposition is created by achieving placements for our trained fresher students in IoT as well as for the companies as well.

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• Phone: +91 809 555 7 333 / +91 80 4128 9576
• Email: training@emertxe.com

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IoT solutions are typically complex in nature where heterogeneous entities (sensors-> devices-> gateways-> cloud->application) are supposed to work together in order to provide an end-to-end solution working.  In such cases it is very important to consider non-functional aspects (scalability, security, reliability, high availability) which plays a very critical role to provide the desired end user experience for the customers. Any loophole (example - security) will make the whole solution non-viable for the customers.

Hence along with programming and functional IoT skills, it is also very important for engineers to process the IoT Architecture and non-functional related aspects,  so that you will be able to build a production quality system. Because building a prototype for laboratory use is significantly different from building a production level IoT solution for which such a non-functional knowledge plays a very key role.

In Emertxe’s IoT course you will be provided with exposure on the non functional aspects as well, so that you will keep them into consideration while building your IoT solution in real-time.

Of course yes. When you are starting your career, we recommend you build horizontal or generic skills so that you will be able to fit yourself anywhere in the IoT domain. Once you get some good amount of experience with one particular area (example - IoT protocols) for about two years, you can then choose a particular the vertical (example - Automotive) and build deep expertise by becoming a specialist / expert in that particular vertical specific skills.

Emertxe’s IoT course it will open up a bunch of for different roles and responsibilities for engineering graduates. Some of them are mentioned below:

• Programmer and developer of IoT Device
• Integration engineer to integrate IoT Device with sensors and external peripherals
• Vertical specific application development
• Design and develop an IoT gateways
• Multitasking application development in IoT gateways
• Integration of the IoT devices  / IoT gateways with cloud platform
• IoT Cloud platform API development
• IoT non-functional features development (example - security)

IoT testing - System testing, Non-functional testing, Integration testing, Automation testing etc.

Yes it is correct - IoT skills are very broad in nature! It can be categorised into:

• Embedded IoT: It consists of building a connected devices - which consists of IoT devices and IoT gateways. Followed by that it includes various protocols that connects the IoT device with IoT gateway and eventually all of them into IoT platform running in the cloud. Primarily this requires knowledge of micro-controller programming, system programming, OS and networking / protocol skills.
• Application IoT: This mainly consist of a network interface which receives data from IoT device (via HTTP), Scalable Web server, Database and Data Analytics / Artificial Intelligence platform to synthesize and report the data in form of dashboards and reports. These reports are eventually used to derive meaningful insights / actions which are getting triggered all the way from sensors.

In Emertxe’s IoT course stress is given on programming the Embedded IoT part and integrating them with Application IoT mentioned below. Of course one can work on getting expertise in Application IoT also but placing them in a single course makes it too large. Given the strength Emertxe has in the Embedded space, our course is carved with more Embedded focus.

Job trends in IoT requires engineers to build skills based on a ‘T’ model mentioned below. The horizontal part of T requires engineers to have knowledge on Sensors, Devices, Network, Cloud applications and IoT protocols. On the vertical part of T required to have expertise on IoT Architecture, Programming skills, Integration skills, Hardware knowledge and non-functional requirements.

Along with that companies are expecting to have demonstrated output in terms of projects to validate the learning (shown in the right side of the T). Modern job trends suggest having these type of skills will place an entry level engineer in a high-paced career path

IoT is in heavy demand due to many reasons. Some statistics* are as follows:

• Roughly about 30+ Billion IoT devices are expected to be deployed in the market by 2019
• These devices are expected to connect about 4 billion people across the world
• In India more than 60 Million USD investments have been made into IoT based start-ups
• From 2014 onwards IoT job demand has increased by 300%
• In future IoT is expected to generate 10 million jobs
• About 1 Billion USD investment is expected by the Government segment alone (example - smart cities)
• In Industrial segment, about 55% of the share is going to come from Industrial IoT (IIoT)

Please many devices would require multiple technologies to work together in a serious way which opens a lot of career opportunities for engineers.

* Reference from popular market research reports like NASSCOM / E & Y / Economic Times / IDC research

As the saying goes ‘technologies go through rapid changes whereas foundation won’t’ which is the primary reason why you should master foundations. For example many new programming languages are techniques will come into the foray of IoT as it matures, foundational aspects of all programming languages (example - Algorithms) won’t change. Hence in our IoT course we give lot of importance on foundations such as

• Algorithms
• Optimisation
• Linux platform
• Hardware interfacing
• Protocols
• OS and multitasking

Once you learn these foundations, you will be able to apply these skills in any new technology that you come across and learn them at ease. In our IoT course we maintain a very good balance between building foundations and learning advanced skills to that participants are positioned as lifelong learners in the careers.

Yes. Emertxe is an Affiliated Training Partner with Government’s Skill India mission. In order to implement the skill India mission (which comes under the central initiative ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship) the flagship organisation called National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is been functioning. Under NSDC,   Electronic Sector Skill Council of India (ESSCI) is implementing Electronics / Embedded / IoT specific skill development.

By the end of the course ECIP students will be getting assessed by evaluation body of NSDC/ESSCI. Upon successfully clearing the assessment, the certificate for the job role IoT Application Engineer - ELE/Q3911 (Level 5) will be directly provided by NSDC/ESSCI. This will add a lot of value for your career as the Government is working to standardize skill-levels across various jobs / sectors to enhance career possibilities.

In Emertxe typically students spend 5 hours (minimum) on a daily basis where roughly 50-50 time is spent between classroom and labs.

During classroom time, typically a senior mentor will be engaging participants by delivering the content in a workshop oriented manner. During this session the mentor will introduce a concept followed by template sample programs and classroom exercises. This kind of approach ensures that you learn that particular concept well and able to build a working program. The goal of the classroom session is to build skills and confidence among participants.

After the class,you will be moved into the lab, where you will be given a set of assignments to work on, under the supervision of lab mentors. During labs you will be able to apply the learning that you have had in your classroom and build more programs and finally a good quality project. On a regular basis DISHA sessions (interview preparation, weekly tests, module tests, resume preparation workshops) are conducted either during weekdays or Saturday.

As you may be aware IoT is all about connecting anything-to-everything, where protocols play the important role in providing connectivity. These protocols can be categorised based on many factors like functionality, range and power consumption. It can be further categorized into:

• Peripheral connectivity protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN etc...)
• Device-to-Gateway connectivity protocols (Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth etc...)
• Gateway-to-cloud connectivity protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, AMQP, IPv4, IPv6 etc...)

As a IoT developer, you need to have good hands on experience with various protocols and their internals (headers, packet structure, handshake, error handling, advantages and disadvantages) so that you can make appropriate choice of them for your IoT solution.

In our IoT course students will be learning two programming languages C and Python. You will be implementing projects on both programming languages.

In spite of getting introduced in 1970s, the C programming language provides best optimized machine code, low level programming features, dynamic memory management and portability. On the other hand Python is a versatile interpreted language which is easy to learn with rich set of libraries. Both languages are very popular in the IoT domain getting hands-on projects implemented in them will really help you to take-off your career.

In the ECIP course you will be learning three skills under four different categories:

• Foundations: This includes basic and core skills like Algorithms, Optimization, Linux platform, HW interfacing, Protocols and OS / Multitasking
• Programming languages: In this course you will be learning programming using Advanced C and Python. In both of them you will learn right from the basics to advanced aspects, using which a working program can be created in an IoT device / IoT gateway
• Hardware platforms: In this course you will be exposed to various standard and open source hardware platforms like Raspberry pi and Arduino and more in the similar lines. Having said that the hardware platforms tend to change from time-to-time, depending on the industry requirements. In our course we will be focusing on core aspects like reading data sheets, programming a particular peripheral using a software program and how to interface them with any external I/O or peripheral devices
• IoT specific skills: To build specific knowledge, in this course you will be learning about:

• IoT Architecture
• Setting up IoT work-flows
• IoT cloud infrastructure
• Performance and security in IoT
• Building IoT applications
• IoT protocols (ex : MQTT)

In summary you will learn entire Embedded IoT start write from sensors-to-app, which are critical parts in building overall IoT solution. U will be able to fit yourself in any of the specific areas of IoT development and build your career.

As you may be aware, the complete IoT solution has multiple components namely sensors, IoT device, IoT gateway, IoT protocols and eventually connecting to any of the cloud solution. For the user ultimately these cloud solutions will help interpret lot of data and make some meaningful insights and enable making critical decisions.

In ECIP course you will be learning all the critical skills that plays an important role in each of the aspects of IoT as mentioned above. For example will be learning about sensors and microcontroller programming (Arduino module) and OS based application programming (Raspberry pi module) and Protocols (like MQTT)  and cloud integration module (using Amazon / Microsoft / Open source IoT cloud). These combined skills will enable you to build the complete IoT solution.

In the ECIP course, you will be getting hardware exposure in multiple angles. To start with you will be exposed to programming a non-OS based hardware which is called as microcontrollers. In ECIP course you will be using Arduino as a platform using which you will be learning how to read data sheets, implementing interrupt service routines, various protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, WiFi, Bluetooth) interfacing various different peripherals (Timers, Counters, Interrupts) and implementing an application using programming language like C.

After you build hands-on experience with microcontrollers, you will be exposed to and OS based hardware platform like Raspberry Pi,  using which you will be able to build an IoT gateway. Typically IoT gateway is a powerful device which requires any Operating System (OS like Linux or Raspbian OS)  running in it. It requires you to learn some other critical OS concepts like multitasking, scheduling, resource Management and various related protocols (HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, AMQP, IPv4, IPv6, 6LoWPAN) to program the IoT gateway.  

Our mentoring team strongly believes that hardware platforms tend to change as industry requirement becomes more advanced. Hence taking a hardware / board specific approach will not scale participants in the long term. Hence learning methodology is also focuses on generic aspects of hardware so that, you will be able to learn apply them in any hardware.

In summary as a IoT developer you will be learning how to program a hardware by designing, developing, running debugging a complete Application on your own on a OS or a non-OS based hardware.

Emertxe, with its core expertise in Embedded and IoT domains, offers two major placement oriented courses when it comes to freshers:

• Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (ECEP)
• Emertxe Certified IoT Professional (ECIP)

The ECEP primarily focuses on ‘core’ technologies of building a device from the scratch. For example ECEP has heavy focus on lower level OS (ex: Embedded Linux) so that participants will get complete understanding of building an Embedded device.

The ECIP course primarily focuses on ‘build-and-integrate’ technologies of building an overall IoT solution. This includes programming IoT device, IoT Gateway and them using  any of the popular cloud platforms (ex: IBM Watson). Here the participant may not expected to know the lower level programming details, can operate at higher level of abstraction.

However there are some common points between ECEP and ECIP (ex: C programming) which is essential for both of them.

As the saying goes ‘technologies go through rapid changes whereas foundation won’t’ which is the primary reason why you should master foundations. For example many new programming languages are techniques will come into the foray of IoT as it matures, foundational aspects of all programming languages (example - Algorithms) won’t change. Hence in our IoT course we give lot of importance on foundations such as

• Algorithms
• Optimisation
• Linux platform
• Hardware interfacing
• Protocols
• OS and multitasking

Once you learn these foundations, you will be able to apply these skills in any new technology that you come across and learn them at ease. In our IoT course we maintain a very good balance between building foundations and learning advanced skills to that participants are positioned as lifelong learners in the careers.

Yes. Emertxe is an Affiliated Training Partner with Government’s Skill India mission. In order to implement the skill India mission (which comes under the central initiative ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship) the flagship organisation called National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is been functioning. Under NSDC,   Electronic Sector Skill Council of India (ESSCI) is implementing Electronics / Embedded / IoT specific skill development.

By the end of the course ECIP students will be getting assessed by evaluation body of NSDC/ESSCI. Upon successfully clearing the assessment, the certificate for the job role IoT Application Engineer - ELE/Q3911 (Level 5) will be directly provided by NSDC/ESSCI. This will add a lot of value for your career as the Government is working to standardize skill-levels across various jobs / sectors to enhance career possibilities.

In Emertxe typically students spend 5 hours (minimum) on a daily basis where roughly 50-50 time is spent between classroom and labs.

During classroom time, typically a senior mentor will be engaging participants by delivering the content in a workshop oriented manner. During this session the mentor will introduce a concept followed by template sample programs and classroom exercises. This kind of approach ensures that you learn that particular concept well and able to build a working program. The goal of the classroom session is to build skills and confidence among participants.

After the class,you will be moved into the lab, where you will be given a set of assignments to work on, under the supervision of lab mentors. During labs you will be able to apply the learning that you have had in your classroom and build more programs and finally a good quality project. On a regular basis DISHA sessions (interview preparation, weekly tests, module tests, resume preparation workshops) are conducted either during weekdays or Saturday.

As you may be aware IoT is all about connecting anything-to-everything, where protocols play the important role in providing connectivity. These protocols can be categorised based on many factors like functionality, range and power consumption. It can be further categorized into:

• Peripheral connectivity protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN etc...)
• Device-to-Gateway connectivity protocols (Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth etc...)
• Gateway-to-cloud connectivity protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, AMQP, IPv4, IPv6 etc...)

As a IoT developer, you need to have good hands on experience with various protocols and their internals (headers, packet structure, handshake, error handling, advantages and disadvantages) so that you can make appropriate choice of them for your IoT solution.

In our IoT course students will be learning two programming languages C and Python. You will be implementing projects on both programming languages.

In spite of getting introduced in 1970s, the C programming language provides best optimized machine code, low level programming features, dynamic memory management and portability. On the other hand Python is a versatile interpreted language which is easy to learn with rich set of libraries. Both languages are very popular in the IoT domain getting hands-on projects implemented in them will really help you to take-off your career.

In the ECIP course you will be learning three skills under four different categories:

• Foundations: This includes basic and core skills like Algorithms, Optimization, Linux platform, HW interfacing, Protocols and OS / Multitasking
• Programming languages: In this course you will be learning programming using Advanced C and Python. In both of them you will learn right from the basics to advanced aspects, using which a working program can be created in an IoT device / IoT gateway
• Hardware platforms: In this course you will be exposed to various standard and open source hardware platforms like Raspberry pi and Arduino and more in the similar lines. Having said that the hardware platforms tend to change from time-to-time, depending on the industry requirements. In our course we will be focusing on core aspects like reading data sheets, programming a particular peripheral using a software program and how to interface them with any external I/O or peripheral devices
• IoT specific skills: To build specific knowledge, in this course you will be learning about:

• IoT Architecture
• Setting up IoT work-flows
• IoT cloud infrastructure
• Performance and security in IoT
• Building IoT applications
• IoT protocols (ex : MQTT)

In summary you will learn entire Embedded IoT start write from sensors-to-app, which are critical parts in building overall IoT solution. U will be able to fit yourself in any of the specific areas of IoT development and build your career.

As you may be aware, the complete IoT solution has multiple components namely sensors, IoT device, IoT gateway, IoT protocols and eventually connecting to any of the cloud solution. For the user ultimately these cloud solutions will help interpret lot of data and make some meaningful insights and enable making critical decisions.

In ECIP course you will be learning all the critical skills that plays an important role in each of the aspects of IoT as mentioned above. For example will be learning about sensors and microcontroller programming (Arduino module) and OS based application programming (Raspberry pi module) and Protocols (like MQTT)  and cloud integration module (using Amazon / Microsoft / Open source IoT cloud). These combined skills will enable you to build the complete IoT solution.

In the ECIP course, you will be getting hardware exposure in multiple angles. To start with you will be exposed to programming a non-OS based hardware which is called as microcontrollers. In ECIP course you will be using Arduino as a platform using which you will be learning how to read data sheets, implementing interrupt service routines, various protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, WiFi, Bluetooth) interfacing various different peripherals (Timers, Counters, Interrupts) and implementing an application using programming language like C.

After you build hands-on experience with microcontrollers, you will be exposed to and OS based hardware platform like Raspberry Pi,  using which you will be able to build an IoT gateway. Typically IoT gateway is a powerful device which requires any Operating System (OS like Linux or Raspbian OS)  running in it. It requires you to learn some other critical OS concepts like multitasking, scheduling, resource Management and various related protocols (HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, AMQP, IPv4, IPv6, 6LoWPAN) to program the IoT gateway.  

Our mentoring team strongly believes that hardware platforms tend to change as industry requirement becomes more advanced. Hence taking a hardware / board specific approach will not scale participants in the long term. Hence learning methodology is also focuses on generic aspects of hardware so that, you will be able to learn apply them in any hardware.

In summary as a IoT developer you will be learning how to program a hardware by designing, developing, running debugging a complete Application on your own on a OS or a non-OS based hardware.

Emertxe, with its core expertise in Embedded and IoT domains, offers two major placement oriented courses when it comes to freshers:

• Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (ECEP)
• Emertxe Certified IoT Professional (ECIP)

The ECEP primarily focuses on ‘core’ technologies of building a device from the scratch. For example ECEP has heavy focus on lower level OS (ex: Embedded Linux) so that participants will get complete understanding of building an Embedded device.

The ECIP course primarily focuses on ‘build-and-integrate’ technologies of building an overall IoT solution. This includes programming IoT device, IoT Gateway and them using  any of the popular cloud platforms (ex: IBM Watson). Here the participant may not expected to know the lower level programming details, can operate at higher level of abstraction.

However there are some common points between ECEP and ECIP (ex: C programming) which is essential for both of them.

As the saying goes ‘technologies go through rapid changes whereas foundation won’t’ which is the primary reason why you should master foundations. For example many new programming languages are techniques will come into the foray of IoT as it matures, foundational aspects of all programming languages (example - Algorithms) won’t change. Hence in our IoT course we give lot of importance on foundations such as

• Algorithms
• Optimisation
• Linux platform
• Hardware interfacing
• Protocols
• OS and multitasking

Once you learn these foundations, you will be able to apply these skills in any new technology that you come across and learn them at ease. In our IoT course we maintain a very good balance between building foundations and learning advanced skills to that participants are positioned as lifelong learners in the careers.

Yes. Emertxe is an Affiliated Training Partner with Government’s Skill India mission. In order to implement the skill India mission (which comes under the central initiative ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship) the flagship organisation called National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is been functioning. Under NSDC,   Electronic Sector Skill Council of India (ESSCI) is implementing Electronics / Embedded / IoT specific skill development.

By the end of the course ECIP students will be getting assessed by evaluation body of NSDC/ESSCI. Upon successfully clearing the assessment, the certificate for the job role IoT Application Engineer - ELE/Q3911 (Level 5) will be directly provided by NSDC/ESSCI. This will add a lot of value for your career as the Government is working to standardize skill-levels across various jobs / sectors to enhance career possibilities.

In Emertxe typically students spend 5 hours (minimum) on a daily basis where roughly 50-50 time is spent between classroom and labs.

During classroom time, typically a senior mentor will be engaging participants by delivering the content in a workshop oriented manner. During this session the mentor will introduce a concept followed by template sample programs and classroom exercises. This kind of approach ensures that you learn that particular concept well and able to build a working program. The goal of the classroom session is to build skills and confidence among participants.

After the class,you will be moved into the lab, where you will be given a set of assignments to work on, under the supervision of lab mentors. During labs you will be able to apply the learning that you have had in your classroom and build more programs and finally a good quality project. On a regular basis DISHA sessions (interview preparation, weekly tests, module tests, resume preparation workshops) are conducted either during weekdays or Saturday.

As you may be aware IoT is all about connecting anything-to-everything, where protocols play the important role in providing connectivity. These protocols can be categorised based on many factors like functionality, range and power consumption. It can be further categorized into:

• Peripheral connectivity protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN etc...)
• Device-to-Gateway connectivity protocols (Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth etc...)
• Gateway-to-cloud connectivity protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, AMQP, IPv4, IPv6 etc...)

As a IoT developer, you need to have good hands on experience with various protocols and their internals (headers, packet structure, handshake, error handling, advantages and disadvantages) so that you can make appropriate choice of them for your IoT solution.

In our IoT course students will be learning two programming languages C and Python. You will be implementing projects on both programming languages.

In spite of getting introduced in 1970s, the C programming language provides best optimized machine code, low level programming features, dynamic memory management and portability. On the other hand Python is a versatile interpreted language which is easy to learn with rich set of libraries. Both languages are very popular in the IoT domain getting hands-on projects implemented in them will really help you to take-off your career.

In the ECIP course you will be learning three skills under four different categories:

• Foundations: This includes basic and core skills like Algorithms, Optimization, Linux platform, HW interfacing, Protocols and OS / Multitasking
• Programming languages: In this course you will be learning programming using Advanced C and Python. In both of them you will learn right from the basics to advanced aspects, using which a working program can be created in an IoT device / IoT gateway
• Hardware platforms: In this course you will be exposed to various standard and open source hardware platforms like Raspberry pi and Arduino and more in the similar lines. Having said that the hardware platforms tend to change from time-to-time, depending on the industry requirements. In our course we will be focusing on core aspects like reading data sheets, programming a particular peripheral using a software program and how to interface them with any external I/O or peripheral devices
• IoT specific skills: To build specific knowledge, in this course you will be learning about:

• IoT Architecture
• Setting up IoT work-flows
• IoT cloud infrastructure
• Performance and security in IoT
• Building IoT applications
• IoT protocols (ex : MQTT)

In summary you will learn entire Embedded IoT start write from sensors-to-app, which are critical parts in building overall IoT solution. U will be able to fit yourself in any of the specific areas of IoT development and build your career.

As you may be aware, the complete IoT solution has multiple components namely sensors, IoT device, IoT gateway, IoT protocols and eventually connecting to any of the cloud solution. For the user ultimately these cloud solutions will help interpret lot of data and make some meaningful insights and enable making critical decisions.

In ECIP course you will be learning all the critical skills that plays an important role in each of the aspects of IoT as mentioned above. For example will be learning about sensors and microcontroller programming (Arduino module) and OS based application programming (Raspberry pi module) and Protocols (like MQTT)  and cloud integration module (using Amazon / Microsoft / Open source IoT cloud). These combined skills will enable you to build the complete IoT solution.

In the ECIP course, you will be getting hardware exposure in multiple angles. To start with you will be exposed to programming a non-OS based hardware which is called as microcontrollers. In ECIP course you will be using Arduino as a platform using which you will be learning how to read data sheets, implementing interrupt service routines, various protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, WiFi, Bluetooth) interfacing various different peripherals (Timers, Counters, Interrupts) and implementing an application using programming language like C.

After you build hands-on experience with microcontrollers, you will be exposed to and OS based hardware platform like Raspberry Pi,  using which you will be able to build an IoT gateway. Typically IoT gateway is a powerful device which requires any Operating System (OS like Linux or Raspbian OS)  running in it. It requires you to learn some other critical OS concepts like multitasking, scheduling, resource Management and various related protocols (HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, AMQP, IPv4, IPv6, 6LoWPAN) to program the IoT gateway.  

Our mentoring team strongly believes that hardware platforms tend to change as industry requirement becomes more advanced. Hence taking a hardware / board specific approach will not scale participants in the long term. Hence learning methodology is also focuses on generic aspects of hardware so that, you will be able to learn apply them in any hardware.

In summary as a IoT developer you will be learning how to program a hardware by designing, developing, running debugging a complete Application on your own on a OS or a non-OS based hardware.

Emertxe, with its core expertise in Embedded and IoT domains, offers two major placement oriented courses when it comes to freshers:

• Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (ECEP)
• Emertxe Certified IoT Professional (ECIP)

The ECEP primarily focuses on ‘core’ technologies of building a device from the scratch. For example ECEP has heavy focus on lower level OS (ex: Embedded Linux) so that participants will get complete understanding of building an Embedded device.

The ECIP course primarily focuses on ‘build-and-integrate’ technologies of building an overall IoT solution. This includes programming IoT device, IoT Gateway and them using  any of the popular cloud platforms (ex: IBM Watson). Here the participant may not expected to know the lower level programming details, can operate at higher level of abstraction.

However there are some common points between ECEP and ECIP (ex: C programming) which is essential for both of them.

It depends. As long as the project is within the scope of the course subjects our mentors will definitely support you in guiding you for implementation. However if the topic is very different they may try their best to support by giving some high level inputs.

In our IoT course students will be learning two programming languages namely C and Python. You will be implementing projects on both programming languages.

In spite of getting introduced in 1970s, the C programming language provides best optimized machine code, low level programming features, dynamic memory management and portability. On the other hand Python is a versatile interpreted language which is easy to learn with rich set of libraries. Both languages are very popular in the IoT domain getting hands-on projects implemented in them will really help you to take-off your career.

Yes. Since we have high Embedded focus in our course we ensure students implement projects on a non-OS (controlled based) boards like Arduino and OS (Linux) based boards like Raspberry Pi. Apart from that for introductory modules like C students are provided with PC based projects. So in combination you will be implementing projects in various platforms to get a flavour of each one of them.

However our mentoring team strongly believes that IoT platforms continue to change with new boards getting released into the market on a continuous basis. So our recommendation is focus on core fundamentals (Excellent Design, Optimization, User interface, Error handling etc...) so that you will be able to implement them on any board.

Projects are actual testimony that you have learned and know a particular technology well. For a placement company, they would like to see some differentiating factor compared to other college freshers by which they can get an assurance, that the student indeed implemented something on their own. By implementing and showcasing good quality 7-8 projects you can really increase your chances of getting selected in a core company. Bottom-line, all the more companies recruiting IoT technology specific freshers look forward for a quick ramp-up time to deliver their customer projects, which is accommodated in the IoT course syllabus provided by Emertxe.

In each module (except introductory ones) students are provided with a set of projects. Overall we have a huge

list of IoT projects (runs into 100s of topics) on each module however our mentoring team have a list of prioritized projects which are industry relevant. These projects can be applied in domains like Automotive, Telecommunication, Network Security, Distributed computing, Consumer electronics etc. all centred around embedded and IoT.

Mentors will recommend our students a particular project and provide an overall view of applying various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles. They will also provide you with high level requirement and design recommendations which the student need to take up and implement. After implementation the mentor will inspect the project in terms of various standard industry practices (ex: code quality, readability, portability) and grade them. This holistic approach ensures students are able to apply what they have learnt in a particular module. By the end of the course, students would have 7-8 project around various IoT modules taught in the course and showcase to the placement companies, which will create an excellent positive impression about skills and capabilities.

To get a view of list of projects please look into our Emertxe – Technical Resource Library and clicking on the Industry projects list section to get a glance of what you will be working. Please note our TRL goes through continuous updates on a regular basis.