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Thiruvananthapuram, March 3:

The International Centre for Free and Open Source Software here has completed the first batch of training in Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.

This will help students get started on programming for this emerging domain, said Satish Babu, Director of the centre.

The international centre started work on IoT and open hardware in 2012 with prototypes using technologies such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

It now plans to continue the work with sensors, including for applications such as sensor-based pesticide residue detection in vegetables and sensor clusters for macro- and micro-nutrients in soil and air quality monitoring, Babu added.

The hands-on training on IoT introduced 20 participants to the MicroHOPE controller board, a low-cost programmable controller developed by the Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.

The participants were students drawn from engineering colleges from across Kerala. The skills learnt would enable them to take up further work on their own, particularly in developing new applications using the controller and free software-based tools as part of the main project in their curriculum.

IoT is the third generation Internet application that aims to connect the physical world to the cyber world through a combination of sensors and sensor networks, actuators, cloud-based repositories and analytics and decision-support systems.

Much of the emerging innovations today are centred on IoT, and it is largely in the domain of free and open source software.

The market for IoT is expected to cross $7 trillion by 2020, Babu said.

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