September 24, 2017 – UTM Skudai – Center for Communication and Technology (CICT) in cooperation with Advanced Telecommunication Research Group (ATT) of UTM conducted a Workshop on “Internet of Things Hands-on Experience” using FAVORIOTrecently.

This is probably the first series of IoT Workshops that will be hosted and trained by the experts from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The attendees are from within UTM (Staffs and Students) including people from the industry.

The excitement and compelling need for more IoT professionals are growing steadily in Malaysia. UTM will be a good anchor University in down south of the Peninsular Malaysia to grow the IoT talents in relation to the needs of the Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities plans in Johor.

ATT comprised of a great research team that focused on IoT for many years. They have developed products such as:

• TelG
• Smart Door Access
• Smart Home System
• Poultry Farm Wireless Monitoring System
• Spine Monitoring

“We need Generation-IoT to help build our nation. We can’t have the attitude of wait-and-see as the Third Wave of Internet Tsunami hit us. Thus, the new generation must be equipped with the right technical skills and understand how to develop an IoT business case. Using FAVORIOT platform will the beginning of their IoT journey in developing innovative solutions”, said Dr. Mazlan Abbas, CEO of FAVORIOT.

Photo Gallery (Credit to ATT)

We have launched the Beta FAVORIOT Developer Program in early May 2017 and is now ready to go for commercial. With the recent partnerships with 15 Malaysian Universities and 1 overseas University, FAVORIOT is now poised to become the leading IoT platform provider in Malaysia.

FAVORIOT has also partnered with several training partners (UTM, MyDuino and Trity Technologies) to offer hands-on courses on IoT using the FAVORIOT platform. However, for developers who can learn by themselves, they can check the full documentation at FAVORIOT’s website.

Check out the COMPLETE Tutorial How to connect an Arduino to FAVORIOT Platform. You can also download a STEP-by-STEP Tutorial –  TUTORIAL – Cytron Uno with FAVORIOT Platform (56 downloads)

What FAVORIOT Platform (IoT Middleware) Offers?

1. Developer Platform – IOT Application Enablement Platform (AEP)  meant to enable a developer to deploy an IOT application.
2. Dashboard – Chart analysis. Responsive web design for all screens. Simple graphs format.
3. Connectivity Protocols – Supports MQTT, REST API, and others
4. Advanced Data Processing – Real-time aggregated data streams to applications but also access to historical data for data aggregation and advanced queries
5. Event Processing – “Trigger-Condition-Action” model. Physical sensors and virtual sensors supported. Rules Engine to enable real-time action triggering
6. 3rd Part Plugins – Social Media integration
7. Device Management – Managing devices based on users, projects, applications, and groups.
8. Future Proof – proof IOT solution. Continuation of IoT projects. Scalable vertically or horizontally.

Benefits of Using FAVORIOT Platform

1. Cloud-based platform (SaaS)
2. Reduces time to market from months to weeks
3. Reduces the cost and risk of application development
4. Can be easily tailored to multiple business applications and different market segments
5. Capable of handling millions of devices, data streams and scale elastically
6. Simple business rule creation process
7. Easily handling data ownership for sharing and monetizing
8. As the platform evolves, you get new features easily

FAVORIOT offered a very affordable pricing plan as shown below:

The Beginner Plan is very suitable for University students who have been assigned or chose IoT project as their Final Year Project. A single device such as Raspberry Pi or Arduino that collects from several connected sensors can stream to the IoT platform. A simple dashboard is provided to visualize the measurements. This plan is also suitable for an individual developer or hobbyist that would like to familiarize with IoT platform, conduct self-learning or participate in IoT Hackathons. At RM 8.33 (or less than USD 2.00) per month, you can become the next Generation-IoT and on your way to be one of the rare talents in the job market today!

The Startup Plan is perfect for Freelancers or SMEs or Startups to provide IoT solution for a medium size project up to 150 devices. In fact, they can also create multiple projects or applications but limited to the total number of 150 devices.

The Business Plan is great for developing big commercial IoT project. It can support up to 300 devices for many smart applications. However, if a company requires connecting thousands of devices, they may contact/email their customised requirements to sales@favoriot.com

CLICK HERE to Subscribe/Request for Quotation.

Check out the COMPLETE Tutorial How to connect an Arduino to FAVORIOT Platform. You can also download a STEP-by-STEP Tutorial –  TUTORIAL – Cytron Uno with FAVORIOT Platform (56 downloads)

In collaboration with MyInvent through their MyDuino.com and FAVORIOT, we will be offering “Advanced IoT Workshop with FAVORIOT” on Sept. 23-24, 2017.

In this workshop, we will be using NodeMCU (Arduino-WiFi Compatible Device) as it can be implemented as the controller that is interfaced with sensors and actuators, which meant to be connected to FAVORIOT IoT platform. The connection of these controllers, sensors, and actuators to an IoT platform enable real-time control, data collection, and data analysis.

We recommend this workshop to anyone, who wants to learn how to integrate IoT devices and IoT platform to develop IoT solutions and applications.

Participation in this workshop will enable you to:

• Develop IoT projects with an integration of Arduino platform and Favoriot platform,
• Understand the hierarchy of devices management in Favoriot platform,
• Understand which IoT protocols are suitable to be implemented in your IoT project,
• Build a roadmap to develop and implement your own IoT solutions and applications.

WORKSHOP CURRICULUM

Getting Started with Favoriot IoT Platform

1. Getting Started with Favoriot Platform.
2. Understand Favoriot Hierarchy and JSON Data Format.
3. Create Project, Application, Group, and Device.
4. Favoriot REST API & MQTT.
5. REST API Testing with Postman.
6. Create Graph on Favoriot.
7. Create Email & SMS Rules on Favoriot.

Getting Started with NodeMCU

1. Getting Started with NodeMCU.
2. Install CP2102 USB Driver.
3. Install ESP8266 Library.
4. Read Humidity & Temperature Sensor.
5. Setting Up WiFi Connection.
6. Create JSON Data Format.
7. Update DHT11 to Favoriot Data Stream using REST API.

Integration of Favoriot MQTT, MQTT Client, and NodeMCU

1. What is MQTT?
2. Understanding Favoriot MQTT Protocol.
3. MQTT Testing with MQTT.fx on Desktop.
4. MQTT Testing with IoT MQTT Dashboard on Android.
5. Install MQTT Library on NodeMCU.
6. Setting Favoriot MQTT Protocol on NodeMCU.
7. Update DHT11 to Favoriot Data Stream using MQTT.
8. Control LEDs with MQTT Client App.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

• Weekend, 23 & 24 September 2017
• Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM
• Venue: Myinvent, Shah Alam. (https://goo.gl/maps/vfq7n6uoiUQ2)

WORKSHOP PREREQUISITE

1. Basic in electronics.
2. Basic in Arduino programming.
3. Pre-Install Arduino in your laptop (download Arduino IDE from arduino.cc).
4. Bring your own laptop.

WORKSHOP FEE

RM265.00 (including GST)

Promo: Join this awesome workshop for only RM50, when you purchase a Myduino IoT Training Kit (Purchase it online now: http://www.myduino.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1004)