Akal College of Engineering & Technology (ACET), Eternal University, Baru Sahiborganized “DST (SERB) Sponsored Two Days National Level Workshop on Real Time Applications Using Next Generation IoT Technology” held on April 20-21, 2018.  The workshop was inaugurated by  Dr. H.S. Dhaliwal, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Eternal University; Dr. B.S. Bhoparai, Dean Academics, Eternal University; Dr. P.S Cheema, Dean, Akal College of Engineering & Technology;  Mr. Dushyant Sarpal DSP-Solan-Rajgarh, Prof. (Dr.) Manu Sood, Director-University Institute of Information Technology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla; Dr Vivek Kumar Sehgal, Associate Prof., Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan; Er. Karanpal Singh, Managing Director, NEBERO Systems Mohali, and other invited guest/speakers. More than 150 participants from various Universities were participated in this workshop. Resources person from government organization, Industries and academic institution were delivered lectures  on the latest technologies related to the IoT. This workshop was totally free including fooding and lodging for Girl students.

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most exciting trends and innovation in the recenthistory of technological advancement covering wide range of applications like healthcare, security, traffic management, transportation, home & industrial automation, remote monitoring, smart cities, smart forming, smart grid etc. The workshop were mainly focused on both theoretical as well as hands-on experience on IoT technology to interface the things for different applications using Raspberry Pi, Arduino and ESP8266 toolkits with the devices such as LEDs sensors, actuators etc

In the hand-on training sessions, the students were performed on Blinking of LED (Burning the program on Hardware with different patterns) and Turn ON/OFF AC appliciances with MCU as some delay with the help of  Er. Pramodhini & Er. Prasan, Trainer, i3indya Technologies, Delhi. In the second day, students transferred data serially from PC to micro controller, performed on IoT based smart home automation module, and on other practical modules such as Real Time monitoring of sensors on a particular IP Address/server & Automatic updates/uploads of sensor value on IP/web.