Advanced Professional Certificate in Internet of Things

Advanced Professional Certificate

Training Roadmap

Completion of Stages 1 to 3 curricula earns the participant an Advanced Professional Certificate in this programme.

Programme Overview

The Advanced Professional Certificate in Internet of Things (IoT) is an extensive programme that encompasses three fundamental areas of IoT. It starts with the Professional Certificate in Basic Electronics and Microcontroller Programming for IoT, laying a strong foundation in electronics, microcontroller programming, and device communication. This enables learners to create, construct, and program IoT devices, as well as deploy full IoT systems. Next, the Professional Certificate in Cloud Technologies for IoT provides the necessary skills to maneuver through the evolving IoT technology field, establish consistent data transmission routes, develop protocols like MQTT, build RESTful servers, and ensure secure device-to-server communications. It also teaches how to design robust, scalable backend servers, and create effective databases and distributed ledgers, including blockchains. The curriculum concludes with the Professional Certificate in Deep Learning for IoT, which teaches learners to leverage data using statistical methods and deep learning network design, allowing them to identify and forecast complex patterns in IoT data, leading to well-informed decisions in the intricate IoT environment. Collectively, these certificates offer a thorough and detailed insight into the IoT domain.

Programme Objectives

This Advanced Professional Certificate will equip learners with the following competencies:

Understand the basic electronics skills needed to support Microcontroller Programming for Internet of Things (IoT)
Create prototype of intelligent systems and connect them to microcontrollers for communication
Understand the importance of Cloud Technologies for secure communications between the devices and the cloud servers
Acquire the skills to design and build resilient and scalable backend servers, efficient and robust backend databases and distributed ledgers
Understand the fundamental Deep Learning skills to make predictions about IoT data
Design deep learning neural networks to analyse, understand and react to IoT data

Job Role Readiness

It will prepare learners in the following job roles to perform their responsibilities more effectively:

IoT Engineer
Backend/Blockchain Engineer
Specialists in Machine Learning

Who Should Attend

Mid-career PMETs

Prerequisites

Bachelor’s Degree in Computing or Mathematics, with programming knowledge
Other Bachelor’s Degree holders with programming knowledge may be considered

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Instructors

A/Prof Colin Tan Keng Yan

A/Prof Colin Tan Keng Yan is a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, NUS School of Computing. He specializes in embedded systems and operating systems related courses. Colin has taught courses on real-time system design, operating systems, programming methodology, and had taught a course on software product development for digital markets. In this course students are given a semester to build three production quality software systems, with the first two being on Facebook and on HTML5, and in the third project students are given free rein on the technologies that they would like to use. The third project is particularly beneficial to students, as they get real first-hand experience in building a software product, from conceptualizing, validating their concept with users, to User Interface (UI) design, UI validation with users, building the system, and finally to marketing their systems to recruit thousands of users before their project submission deadline. Projects completed in this module have spawned startups like Pearcomms, HunQRy and PaperBaton, while alumni in this course have gone on to careers in tech giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Colin, together with two other CS colleagues and three ECE colleagues, is currently teaching a course that gives first-year Computer Engineering students first-hand experience in building non-trivial computer systems like tele-operated robots. Students learn key issues of high-efficiency hardware programming, dealing with electro-mechanical issues like variations in motor and gearbox quality, secure network communications, and real-time mapping of the environment using algorithms like SLAM. They also pick up key skills like performing independent research, and learning how to improvise to solve problems with limited resources. Colin also runs courses in drone design, construction and programming. Colin has written a lightweight operating system for the Arduino called ArdOS that fits into less than a kilobyte of memory, available at https://bitbucket.org/ctank/ardos-ide/wiki/Home. He has also written several other libraries for the Arduino including smartTimer, a library for writing timer-based embedded systems, which also includes a software-based real-time clock for the Arduino, and smartSerial, a bare-metal bare-bones serial communications library for the Arduino. His Bitbucket repository is available at https://www.bitbucket.org/ctank. Colin is Lab Coordinator for Makers@SoC, a maker space that was recently set up to give students a chance to immerse themselves in maker culture, which is a blend of DIY and technology. Makers@SoC addresses two key concerns of the industry: that we are producing technology professionals who can only code and cannot build anything physical – a key concern in fields like IoT – and that CS majors may not have a good appreciation of the hardware on which they build their systems. Makers@SoC runs courses in 3D modeling, basic electronics, microcontroller interfacing and programming, circuit design and fabrication, and through-hole and surface-mount soldering. Colin is Chairperson for the IT Software Solutions for Business trade for Worldskills Singapore 2016 and Worldskills Singapore 2018, and has been a long-time General Secretary for the National Olympiad for Informatics (NOI) competition. Outside of academia Colin reads widely into Catholic theology, is a sponsor and a speaker at the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) Programme, and is a council member and a formation instructor at the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS) in the Roman Catholic Church of Singapore. He is also an avid foodie, a cigar collector, an enthusiast of retro technology, and a somewhat decent and fairly eclectic cook.

Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker

Programme Fees

Singapore Citizens		Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
39 years old or younger	40 years old or older	Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
S$5,591.70	S$2,171.70	S$5,591.70	S$2,171.70	S$18,639.00

Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST, after additional funding from the various funding schemes
Participants must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components for all short courses within an advanced professional certificate to be eligible for SSG funding.
GST shall apply at prevailing rates.

A/Prof Colin Tan Keng Yan

Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker

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