IOTF
| Question No | Question Topic |
| ----------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| Q1 or Q2 | Define IoT and explain its characteristics ✅ |
| Q3 or Q4 | Compare IoT and M2M with examples ✅ |
| Q5 or Q6 | Explain IoT Architecture with functional blocks |
| Q7 or Q8 | Discuss enabling technologies in IoT ✅ |
| Q9 or Q10 | Explain IoT challenges and solutions ✅ |
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🌟 MODULE I — Introduction to IoT
🔥 Highest Priority
✅ IoT Definition + Characteristics
✅ IoT Functional Blocks
✅ IoT Communication Models (Request-Response, Pub-Sub, Push-Pull, Exclusive Pair)
✅ Communication Protocols in IoT (HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, WebSocket, etc.)
✅ Physical + Logical Design of IoT (Things in IoT, generic block diagram)
⚡ Medium Priority
🔹 Networking basics + IoT service architecture (SOA, Gateways)
🔹 IoT protocol layers (link, network, transport, app layers with examples)
🔹 Lower Priority
🔹 IoT levels + deployment templates
🔹 IoT enabling technologies (WSN, cloud, embedded sys)
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🌟 MODULE II — M2M to IoT
🔥 Highest Priority
✅ M2M vs IoT — characteristics, architecture, value chains
✅ Generic M2M system vs IoT system solution
✅ M2M and IoT applications + stress management example
✅ IoT value chains + information marketplace
✅ Global context + implications (megatrends, game changers)
⚡ Medium Priority
🔹 M2M service enablement + system components
🔹 Emerging industrial structure for IoT
🔹 Lower Priority
🔹 Definitions of ecosystems vs value chains
🔹 Barriers, concerns, cost issues
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🌟 MODULE III — IoT Architecture Overview
🔥 Highest Priority
✅ Design principles of IoT architecture
✅ IoT architecture outline + diagram
✅ Building architecture of IoT
✅ Reference architecture + model of IoT
⚡ Medium Priority
🔹 Standards consideration in IoT design
🔹 Needed capabilities of IoT architecture
🔹 Lower Priority
🔹 Minor standards references / formal models
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🌟 MODULE IV — IoT Reference Architecture
🔥 Highest Priority
✅ Functional, Information, Operational, Deployment views of IoT
✅ Domain-specific applications (Home automation, Industry, Surveillance)
✅ Technical + Operational Design Constraints
⚡ Medium Priority
🔹 Architecture of IoT platform
🔹 Informational view deeper points
🔹 Lower Priority
🔹 Deployment topology examples (star, mesh, hybrid)
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🌟 MODULE V — Developing IoT Solutions
🔥 Highest Priority
✅ Cloud computing in IoT
✅ Fog computing in IoT
✅ Privacy + security issues in IoT
✅ IoT tools — Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Python
⚡ Medium Priority
🔹 Data aggregation for IoT in smart cities
🔹 Smart health use case
🔹 Lower Priority
🔹 Differences IoT vs Cloud vs Fog
🔹 Miscellaneous tools or platforms
