Internet of Things specialization at Institut Mines-Télécom / Télécom Bretagne. Rennes campus, France

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1 Internet of Things specialization at Institut Mines-Télécom / Télécom Bretagne Rennes campus, France

2 2 About Institut Mines-Télécom

3 About Télécom Bretagne! A Graduate Engineering School & Research Centre in the field of Information Technologies! Rennes Communication networks Economics & Management! Brest Signal & Image processing Electronics & Physics Computer Science Social Sciences & Humanities! Toulouse Space communications 3

4 About Télécom Bretagne! Facts and figures 1200 Students 160 Academics 350 Part-time lecturers 45% of international students from 50+ countries! Academic degrees Master of Engineering Master of Science Post-Master Professional Certificate PhD 4

5 About Télécom Bretagne! A top-tier research centre 400 Researchers (of which 200 PhD students) 5 Research laboratories - Internet applications - Advanced communications & turbocodes - Communications systems & information processing - Optical communications - Medical information processing Invention of Turbocodes at Telecom Bretagne - Essential technology for 3G mobile phones, for space communications, etc.! Incubator Units for start-up companies 50+ companies created since

6 Context and motivation! The Internet, today 2+ billion human Internet users, and growing Accessing the Internet from different places and with more and more heterogeneous devices - Households, offices, while on the move - PCs, phones, tablets, game consoles Traditional communication paradigm: person-to-person - E.g., when you view an YouTube video, even if you talk to a machine (server): There is one human at the end of the chain (you) There was another human who uploaded the video 6

7 7 Internet of Things

8 Context and motivation! Rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) A growing trend: machine-to-machine (M2M) communications - (Lots of) Data produced and consumed by machines - No humans directly in the loop / at the ends of the chain - A couple of examples: High-speed financial transactions Ambient / energy monitoring and control systems Use of Internet infrastructure for carrying M2M data 8

9 Context and motivation! Rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) Another growing trend: connecting more and more gadgets to / via the Internet - New services and applications arising - Fun example: search for the Good Night Lamp on the Net 9 Source:

10 Internet of Things (networking) M2M Scope Connected objects Internet of Things M2M REST legacy provider JSON/CBOR 10 REST for SCADA? PELOV and TOUTAIN

11 Context and motivation! Huge technical problem: adding many billions of new devices to the Internet many of them connected via wireless with many of them operating without direct human intervention pertaining to very heterogeneous applications / use cases having different performance constraints, security considerations, and so on Energy issues Scalability issues (traffic management, routing ) Radio spectrum management issues! Big opportunities: novel services, new business models 11

12 LoRa FABian Long Range Radio + FabLab Users: " Build an open network " Facilitate new IoT usages " Develop programming environments " Partners : " New traffic patterns " Manage access to ISM band " Develop Internet based architecture " Apply ETSI M2M / other? " Prepare 5G for IoT 12 Dpt/Auteur

Strong emphasis on the IoT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) as an application domain!

13 IoT specialization at Télécom Bretagne! Technical contents focused on: Network services Network architectures and protocols! Strong emphasis on the IoT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) as an application domain! Ongoing collaboration with an Industrial Design School in Rennes Joint students 1 st semester projects Goal: designing the whole widget 13 Source:

14 IoT specialization at Télécom Bretagne! 1 st semester: course modules Distributed software systems & embedded systems (5 ECTS) Innovative networks & network services (5 ECTS) Network implementation & deployment (5 ECTS) Architectures, access, and interfaces for mobile networks (5 ECTS) Internet of Things and Intelligent Transportation Systems (4 ECTS) Advanced topics seminar (2 ECTS)! Industrial project (4 ECTS) - Typically, in cooperation with one of Télécom Bretagne s industry partners 14

15 IoT specialization at Télécom Bretagne! 2 nd semester: internships In one of the many Télécom Bretagne s industry partners Some recent examples of student placements - Alcatel-Lucent (several places) - Astellia (Rennes) - Cisco (Paris) - Free Mobile (Montpellier) - NEC Labs (Heidelberg) - Orange Labs / France Telecom (several places) - Qualcomm (Frankfurt) - SquadMail (Berlin) 16

16 PhD studies after the Master! May lead to a PhD thesis In an industrial R&D lab In Télécom Bretagne s labs In another academic research lab Télécom Bretagne is a member of two Doctoral Schools (Matisse & Sicma) 16

17 Additional info! Student services On-campus accommodation International Office Placement and career advisory service! Contact persons Academic: Laurent Toutain Administrative: Didier Hervé 17

Curriculum part

Curriculum part 3-2014 Elective programme elements IT Network and Electronics technology Version 1.0 Revideret 30. september 2014 Side 0 af 9 Table of contents Table of contents...1 Elective programme