Course content "Smart Sensor Networks and IOT Technologies - Lectures"
1. Smart sensors: WHY? WHERE? How? (e.g. climate and environmental protection, key enabling technology [1], what are smart sensors/ Smart Sensor Basics
2. Introduction to Sensors and Actuators: classification (conversion type, active/passive, linear/non-linear, technology used, type of application (pressure, position, temperature, humidity or others), characteristics (transfer function, accuracy, calibration, repeatability and others), the principle of 'sensing' and the interface with acquisition systems, standardization.
3. IoT and the Industry 4.0 standard, for smart sensors
4. Distributed smart sensors
5. Optoelectronic sensors for Smart City, with remote control (IoT) with application examples (LIDAR, Raman optical fiber distributed sensors, Brillouin optical fiber distributed sensors Fiber Bragg Gratings and Interferometers and Gyroscopes for high sensitivity applications etc).
6. Standards for Smart Sensors
7. Functional OEICs- optoelectronic integrated circuits.
8. Advanced Software for smart sensors based systems. Applications examples: flexible sensors, implantable sensors etc.
9. Sensors data driven approach in artificial inteligence applications
10. eLogistics and smart sensors applications
11. Communications for Smart Sensors
12. Control Techniques
13. Transceivers, Transponders, and Telemetry
14. Packaging, Testing, and Reliability Implications of Smarter Sensors
Lab content "Smart Sensor Networks and IOT Technologies - Lab"
1. Introduction- Recap of main topics in optoelectronics, instrumentation laboratory presentation, work safety rules. General – basic knowledge about optics and optoelectronics Introduction to simulation tool: Optiwave OptiPerformer (Free University Curricula - open access)
2. Simulation: Optiwave OptiPerformer : Introduction_OptiPerformers.osp Practical activities: Spectrometers and Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA), using K-MAC VIS – parameter visualization for emitters and end-of-transmission optical fiber setup.
3. Simulation: Dispersion Limited Fiber Length in OptiPerformer; Practical activities: Interferometer implementation – Michelson (setup Educational Kit from Industrial Fiber Optics.) and Simulation - optional: Mach-Zehnder (design). Mach-Zehnder interferometer as a modulator electro-static and dynamic optic: simulations using ray mathematical formalism implementation (Beam Propagation Method, implemented in Optiwave OptiBPM – trial version)
4. Simulation: OptiPerformer Dispersion Compensation Practical Activities: Effects of polarization – setup Educational Kit from Industrial Fiber Optics; Holographic film, visualization with He-Ne Laser.
5. Seminar: Basics on optical fiber propagation: Problems with monomode and multimode fibers, parameter calculations Practical activities: Photometer - parameter visualization for emitters (coherence visualization for light signal). Special active optical fibers (fluorescent gain)
6. Simulation: Methods of designing an optical system with catalog data (Thorlabs – eCatalog version 21, 2019) - flow budget equation. Part 2: Statistical Design methods implementation using Excel (resolved problems are available as demo) Optional: Simulation: Agrawal - Chapter 5: PowerBudget in OptiPerformer
7. Practical activities: Hologram inscription on sensitive substrate: LitiHolo KIT, US. Hologram 3D visualization: smartphone compatible prism, Educational Kit from Industrial Fiber Optics, US (Observation: training for next generation displays)
8. Practical activities: Infrared Camera applications using SEEK Thermal compact camera (PCB diagnosis) Optional Simulations: Agrawal – Ch 6 (DMUX, FBG, Star Couplers), Ch 7 (Amplifiers) in OptiPerformer
9. Simulation: Nonlinear Noise
Agrawal - Ch2 - Attenuation coefficient in OptiPerformer, Ch2 - Fiber dispersion, Ch 2 – SPM, Ch 2-XPM, Ch 2-FWM Practical activities: diffraction gratings (Mosaic diffraction – practical experiment with - Educational Kit from Industrial Fiber Optics); FBG – fiber Bragg diffraction as optical filter (DMUX in optical communication systems,1550nm), using Mid IR spectrometer
10. Simulation: Agrawal - Chapter 3: Emitters Practical activities: 3D LED holographic projector (smartphone video holograms)
11. Simulation: Agrawal - Chapter 4: Receivers Practical activities: Tango project – tablet with LIDAR Optional: 1. Audio A/D Transmission System over plastic optical fiber- Educational Kit from Industrial Fiber Optics. 2. Garmin LIDAR 1R DEMO
12. Practical activities: OTDR equipment for optical network maintenance - monitoring events over the optical transmission networks (40km outdoor fiber – optical link with ODF – different patch-cords) Simulation: using TraceView Tool, interpretation of the events in the attenuation graphics (files recorded with OTDR)
13. Practical activities: HFC study and implementation of an optical transmission system with optical node (Dolce Telekom setup, RF converter, Laser Modulator – MachZehnder interferometer – 1550nm)
14. Evaluation of the students (20% from final score). Optional: Applications with VR glasses (distance monitoring) and Kinect (Laser and IR sensors)
