UGR Project

Overview

Project Topic

Project topic: Wireless Sensor Networks for Internet of Things Applications

Specifics of the project:

• Simplest version: go-box with Raspberry Pi inside, listening to and profiling wireless networks/traffic.
• Complex version: (same as above) plus Pi will "phone home" to C2 server
• Ultimate version: (same as above) plus external sensors: GPS? camera? elevation? etc.

Covers multiple skill sets:

• Wireless networks and how they work
• Sensor data acquisition - wireless data and other location data
• Hardware side: circuitry, raspberry pi, hardware hacking
• Software side: Linux, networking, wireless, cybersecurity

Ahead of Time/Ready to Go

Want to have a working demonstration of what kind of data they can obtain about wireless networks, what kind of mathematical analysis you can do, what we will actually do with the data.

Course Materials

Handouts and written materials

• Like programming class - provide formal information, but show examples in meetings

Milestones and Goals

• Schedule for planning goals and milestones for students
• Each student keeps track of their goals and milestones
• Progress report - short report on the "what have we done so far"
• (don't put off documentation until the end)

Weekly group meetings

• Show them examples of things, explain with a white board
• Computers are going to be an issue... still.

Online format, how to communicate together?

• Slack?
• Possibly a re-usable wiki. This would make it possible to transfer information across quarters. (Need?)

To have students prepared for materials:

• Have a standard plan of what each student will be doing
• Set a weekly date and time for group meetings

Task lists

• Students work through a task list
• What 6-8 tasks do they need to have accomplished so they'll be where they need to be at end of quarter?

Balance

• What is already done, versus what do they actually do?
• Again - use the Raspberry Pi balcony sensor project as a prototype
• They will need to replicate the setup
• What is the setup? The setup is a Raspberry Pi generating sensor data - they need to capture and analyze that data

Resources

External Links

Roaming wifi analysis with wireshark: http://www.revolutionwifi.net/revolutionwifi/2013/01/wi-fi-roaming-analysis-with-wireshark.html

Excellent use case: wifi data for business intelligence

• http://www.ymc.ch/en/case-study-retail-wifi-log-file-analysis-with-hadoop-and-impala-part-1
• http://www.ymc.ch/en/case-study-retail-wifi-log-file-analysis-with-hadoop-and-impala-part-2
• http://www.ymc.ch/en/case-study-retail-wifi-log-file-analysis-with-hadoop-and-impala-part-3
• Focus on machine learning, business intelligence, data science workflow

Related Wiki Pages

August 2016

OpenVPN/Stunnel