Ph.D course on: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies applied to IoT

Institution: Università del Salento

Academic Year: 2022/2023

N. hours: 15

Teacher: Teodoro Montanaro

Link to the official webpage: https://elearning.unisalento.it/course/view.php?id=1374

Lessons

• Description of the course
• Introduction to DLT and Blockchain: historical background
• Basics of Cryptography, Keyless cryptography, Cryptography based on Symmetric/Asymmetric key, Hash functions
• DLT and Blockchain Ecosystems: how do they work?
• Introduction to Internet of Things
• Blockchain evolutions: ALTCoins and ALTChains, IOTA Tangle, Algorand, Etherium, Ledger Fabric, etc
• DLT and Blockchain applied to IoT: applications
• Practical Lesson on how to use existing blockchains within an IoT system

Course title: Internet of Things

Institution: Università del Salento

N. hours: 21

Teacher: Luigi Patrono

Link to the official webpage: https://www.unisalento.it/people/luigi.patrono/didattica/1252712020/scheda

My personal contribution

• 6h: Introduction to Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Blockchain applied in the IoT domain
• 3h: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applied to the IoT domain
• 3h: Nodejs: a theoretical introduction
• 9h: Practical lessons on Node.js + NodeRED
• 3h: Practical lesson on MQTT and REST

Visiting Lecturer for Ph.D. student

Institution: DEUSTO University – Bilbao - Spain

N. hours: 12

Teacher: Teodoro Montanaro

My personal contribution

• Teaching activities: Dr. Montanaro gave some lectures and seminars on his expertise focused on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies applied to the IoT context for our Ph.D. students. The total hours of teaching activities are 12h;
• Research activities: Dr. Montanaro contributed to our current projects focused on the Internet of Things and Blockchain technologies. In collaboration with our faculty members, he has worked on the ideation of innovative research proposals that will arise to co-authored publications of original research works to be published in international conferences and journals.

Course title: Internet of Things

Institution: Università del Salento

Academic Year: 2021/2022

N. hours: 21

Teacher: Luigi Patrono

Link to the official webpage: https://www.unisalento.it/people/luigi.patrono/didattica/1252712020/scheda

My personal contribution

• 3h: Introduction to Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Blockchain applied in the IoT domain
• 3h: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applied to the IoT domain
• 3h: Nodejs: a theoretical introduction
• 9h: Practical lessons on Node.js + NodeRED
• 3h: Practical lesson on MQTT and REST

Course title: Internet of Things

Institution: Università del Salento

Academic Year: 2020/2021

N. hours: 6

Teacher: Luigi Patrono

Link to the official webpage: https://www.unisalento.it/people/luigi.patrono/didattica/1252712020/scheda

My personal contribution

• Hands on: Nodejs in the Web of Things domain
  • Slides
  • Video 1 (in Italian)
  • Video 2 (in Italian)
  • Exercises' solutions on github
• Hands on 2: Nodejs + MQTT in the Web of Things domain
  • Slides
  • Video (in Italian)
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in IoT: A brief introduction.
  • Slides
  • Video (in Italian)

Higher and Professional Education

Institution: LINKS Foundation

Coordinator: Maurizio Molinaro

LINKS offers courses for post-university and professional education, in terms of quality, effectiveness and economic sustainability with the aims of strengthening the links with external bodies (public and private) that are potential customers or recipients of the educational actions; participating in the preparation of project proposals; elaborating innovative educational models, based on the technological competences of the Institute.

My personal contribution

• Teacher of a course about IoT and its applications in the industrial domain
• Teacher of a course about IoT, Blockchain and Machine Learning and their application in the industrial domain - course taken with Giuseppe Rizzo and Francesco Longo