Final-year first semester ties IoT development to cloud deployment as the sole professional-core subject, pairs it with a human-resource-management course, and opens two more professional-elective slots alongside two open electives. An ethical-hacking skill course, a Constitution of India audit course, and evaluation of the prior industry internship round out the term. Total load is 19-1-2 contact hours for 21 credits.
Subjects
IoT Applications Development on Cloud Platform
- Total: 3-0-0, 3 credits (Professional Core)
- Unit 1: IoT vision, strategic research directions, and standardization efforts.
- Unit 2: M2M-to-IoT architectural overview and market perspective.
- Unit 3: IoT value-creation applications across industry, retail, and healthcare, alongside cloud-computing fundamentals.
- Unit 4: Cloud infrastructure — storage, virtualization, application development, and scalability design.
- Unit 5: IoT and cloud governance, privacy, and security considerations.
Human Resource Management
- Total: 2-0-0, 2 credits (Management Course-II)
- Unit 1: HR management concepts, philosophy, and policy frameworks.
- Unit 2: HR system design and human-resource information systems.
- Unit 3: Functional HR areas — recruitment, compensation, and employee relations.
- Unit 4: HR planning, succession, and strategic HR management.
- Unit 5: HR practices specific to the service sector, including customer-facing employee management.
Professional Elective-IV options:
Students choose one of the following four subjects (or an approved 12-week MOOC) as Professional Elective-IV.
Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
- Unit 1: MANET characteristics and topology-based/position-based routing algorithms.
- Unit 2: Broadcast/multicast data-transmission schemes in ad-hoc networks.
- Unit 3: Geocasting techniques and TCP behavior over ad-hoc networks.
- Unit 4: Wireless sensor network architecture and lower-layer (physical/MAC/routing) issues.
- Unit 5: Upper-layer WSN concerns, including transport-layer adaptation and sensor-robot integration.
Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering
- Unit 1: Malware analysis fundamentals, lab setup, and classification techniques.
- Unit 2: Malware forensics — registry analysis, packer identification, and rogue-certificate detection.
- Unit 3: Kernel/malware debugging techniques across Windows and virtualized environments.
- Unit 4: Memory forensics using tools such as Volatility.
- Unit 5: Domain/IP research techniques for tracing malicious infrastructure.
Cryptocurrency Technologies
- Unit 1: History of money and the cryptographic foundations of digital currency.
- Unit 2: Cryptographic primitives underlying blockchain — hashing, digital signatures, and consensus.
- Unit 3: Bitcoin mechanics and the Ethereum ecosystem.
- Unit 4: Solidity programming and smart-contract development on Ethereum.
- Unit 5: Cryptocurrency regulation and blockchain applications beyond currency.
Designing IoT Architectures
- Unit 1: The IoT landscape — applications, architectures, and protocol concepts.
- Unit 2: IoT device design trade-offs and event-driven system analysis.
- Unit 3: Industrial IoT (IIoT) architecture and Industry 4.0 concepts.
- Unit 4: Security and safety engineering for IoT applications.
- Unit 5: Security testing approaches, including fuzz testing of industrial protocols like Modbus.
Professional Elective-V options:
Students choose one of the following four subjects (or an approved 12-week MOOC) as Professional Elective-V.
Cyber Physical Systems
- Unit 1: Symbolic synthesis techniques for cyber-physical system models.
- Unit 2: Security requirements, attack models, and countermeasures for cyber-physical systems.
- Unit 3: Synchronization challenges in distributed cyber-physical systems.
- Unit 4: Real-time scheduling under fixed and variable timing constraints.
- Unit 5: Model integration and semantic formalization across CPS domain-specific languages.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention System
- Unit 1: History and foundational concepts of intrusion detection.
- Unit 2: Intrusion prevention architectures and vulnerability-analysis techniques.
- Unit 3: Snort installation, configuration, and operating modes.
- Unit 4: Writing and managing Snort rules, plus integration with MySQL.
- Unit 5: Using ACID/SnortSnarf and comparing IDS/IPS architectural models.
Industry IoT
- Unit 1: Industrial revolutions leading to Industry 4.0 and smart factories.
- Unit 2: Sensors, actuators, and embedded/wireless implementation for industrial processes.
- Unit 3: IoT gateways, edge systems, and real-time monitoring dashboards.
- Unit 4: Cyber-physical systems, AR/VR, and AI applied to industrial platforms.
- Unit 5: Industrial IoT applications across healthcare, power, and facility management.
Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality
- Unit 1: AR fundamentals — displays, tracking, and calibration.
- Unit 2: Computer vision for AR and AR software architecture.
- Unit 3: VR fundamentals — geometry of virtual worlds and optics.
- Unit 4: Human visual physiology and perception as applied to VR rendering.
- Unit 5: Motion, interaction, and audio rendering in virtual environments.
Open Elective-III
- Total: 3-0-0, 3 credits
- Selected from the university-wide open elective pool available to IoT students that semester.
Open Elective-IV
- Total: 3-0-0, 3 credits
- Choice between subjects such as Computer Networks or Quantum Science and Technology (covering quantum mechanics fundamentals, quantum information theory, quantum computing algorithms, quantum communication protocols like BB84, and emerging quantum hardware platforms).
Ethical Hacking (Skill Enhancement Course)
- Total: 0-1-2, 2 credits
- Unit 1: Basic system-hacking concepts and clearing forensic tracks.
- Unit 2: Advanced Windows configuration manipulation and registry-level tricks.
- Unit 3: Password cracking techniques across operating systems and services.
- Unit 4: Scripting fundamentals (Perl) applied to security tooling.
- Unit 5: Virus/malware mechanics and basic self-replicating code construction for educational analysis.
Constitution of India (Audit Course)
- Total: 2-0-0, 0 credits
- Unit 1: History of the Constitution’s drafting and its guiding philosophy.
- Unit 2: Fundamental rights, directive principles, and fundamental duties.
- Unit 3: Organs of governance — legislature, executive, and judiciary.
- Unit 4: Local administration — municipalities and panchayati raj institutions.
- Unit 5: The Election Commission and institutional safeguards for marginalized groups.
Evaluation of Industry Internship
- Total: 2 credits, no weekly contact hours
- Assessment of the industry internship completed during the prior semester’s vacation period.