LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course will aim to gain experience through the implementation of some components of a multimedia system with particular reference to those for mobile networks such as modern smartphones or those related to so-called "Internet of Things": the Apps. The issues addressed will cover the representation, processing and retrieval of multimedia data such as sound, music, graphics, images and video, but also localization or information from sensors such as the accelerometer, compass and so on. In order to achieve the modern Apps. At the same time, it will be presented the main architectural features of modern telecommunications networks in their progress towards the Internet of the future: integration between fixed and mobile networks, separation of data transport and control and network management, virtualization functions network, flexibility, programmability, energy efficiency.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Attendance and active participation in the proposed training activities (lectures and exercises) and the
individual study will allow the students to:

- acquire a correct terminology for the identification of the main components and functionalities of a mobile multimedia Apps implemented on embedded systems;
- know the structure and functions of the Internet of Things;

- know the main methods to process heterogenous signal and data acquired by sensors of an embedded system and in particular of a smatphone;

- identify the main components and functions od an Android App;

- provide practical implementations of Android Apps for Internet of Things applications.

PREREQUISITES

The basic knowledge acquired in the courses of FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING, LABORATORY OF INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS, EMBEDDED ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS and the course SIGNALS AND IMAGES PROCESSING AND TRANSMISSION, which takes place partially simultaneously, are useful for effectively addressing the teaching contents.

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional lessons and practical exercices.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Overview of the concept of the Internet of Things, fundamentals of signals and data processing on embedded systems and, in particular, on mobile platforms such as smartphones. The Android operating system, the hardware architecture of a mobile device, the Android Studio development environment. Android programming.

Design and development of Android software modules for signal processing and transmission between Android devices.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• A.B. Carlson, P.B. Crilly and J.C. Rutlege,  “Communication Systems”, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2002
• A. V. Oppenheim, R. W. Schafer, “Elaborazione Numerica dei Segnali”, Franco Angeli
• J. Kurose, K. Ross, “Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach”, 6/E, Addison-Wesley
• S. Tarkoma, M. Siekkinen, E. Lagerspetz, Y. Xiao, "Smartphone Energy Consumption, Modeling and Optimization", Cambridge University Press, 2014
• http://developer.android.com/index.htm
• http://www.sprik.it/guida/Android4_2.pdf
• Additional material will be provided by the lecturers