Note on Parallel Teaching: The course will be attended by both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Note that the expectations on the postgraduate students will be higher. The Class Test for postgraduate students will contain questions of a higher standard. They are also expected to present more difficult papers in the seminar and their reports will also be expected to be of a higher standard.

You should also read the course policy on Student Conduct

Course and laboratory schedule

The course will meet Monday 16:00 - 18:00 in Tyree Energy Technologies Building (TETB) LG07 (K-H6-LG07) and Thursday 12:00 - 14:00 in Law Theatre G02 (K-F8-G02)for lectures.

You should have already signed up one of these laboratory groups. Guided laboratory will take place in Weeks 1-5.

Lecture and laboratory schedule: (the order and content shown below may vary - this is an indication only. Any changes will be announced in the course website.)

Student resources:

IoT is a young, emerging and rapdily evolvinf field. Thus, the course materials will draw from books, professional journals and conference papers.

You will find the following books in the library to be of interest:

• Bahga and Madisetti, Internet of Things: A Hands-On Approach
• McEwen and Cassimally, Designing the Internet of Things

We will be using a number of journal or conference papers in this course. These will be provided on the course web site and you can access them using your zpass.

Guided laboratory and laboratory assessment:

Students are required to attend a guided laboratory from Weeks 1-5 where they will learn programming IoT devices. Laboratory worksheets will be available on the course website. There will be a lab demonstrator assisting in the laboratory.

The equipment to be used is the SensorTag. Each student will be loaned one SensorTag for doing the laboratory and the project. The students will need to sign a loan form and undertake to return these motes in good condition. The motes will be handed out in the laboratory session in the first lab. You must return them at the end of your project demo and interview.

The first lab will provide a basic overview of Contiki and SensorTag. Each lab has an assessment exercise that comes with it. You are given a week to complete these exercises and you will need to demonstrate this to the lab demonstrator in the next laboratory session. Although there is no laboratory exercise for Week 7, you will still need to attend the laboratory to do the demonstration. Each lab exercise is worth 5 - 7 marks.

Projects:

The aim of the project is to give the students an opportunity to do a small research and development project in IoT. The project work is to be performed in teams of 3 students.

The modus operandi is:

• A list of projects will be made available in Week 1 of the course.
  
• Students can form teams to bid to do one of these projects or propose their own. Future details on this will be available when the list of project is posted.
  
• Project teams and topics must be finalised by Week 3.
  
• Each project team should submit their preliminary research finding and proposed project plan in a preliminary report in Week 5. The proposed project plan must include the milestones to be achieved by Week 8 and final deliverables. The LiC reserves the right to add or remove tasks from the proposed project.
  
• Each project team is to present their preliminary research finding to the class during the lecture in Week 5.
  
• Each project team to present their intermediate finding (demonstrating milestones achieved as per preliminary plan) in Week 8.
  
• The final project report and code is to be submitted by 17:00 Sunday 24 Nov 2019 via give.
  
• A final demonstration and interview will be held in Week 11.
  

Note that there is no formal examination for COMP6733.

Communications via e-mail

1. You should check your school e-mail frequently in case of announcements relating to this course. We assume that you read e-mail sent to your UNSW account by the next working day during teaching sessions.
2. Students must follow the proper communication channels:-
1. The official course mailing address (cs6733@cse.unsw.edu.au) should only be used for students who have personal problems and wish to seek help from LIC or Administrator on confidential basis. Please allow up to a week to receive a reply but we will attempt to reply sooner. If it's urgent, use the consultation hours. For administrative or technial questions, we urge you to use the course forum. You can expect a quick response from the teaching team.
2. We prefer that you email us using your UNSW email account. If you are e-mailing us from a non-UNSW e-mail account (such as gmail, yahoo, etc), you must include your full name and student number in the e-mail to enable us to identify you, otherwise we will not reply to your email.
   
3. Do not send direct emails to LIC, Administrator, etc. via their personal email addresses. Emails received at private accounts will not be read and automatically deleted without reply.
   

Student Conduct

Copying assignments is unacceptable. Assignments will be checked. The penalties for copying range from receiving no marks for the assignment, through receiving a mark of 00 FL for the course, to expulsion from UNSW (for repeat offenders). Allowing someone to copy your work counts as plagiarism, even if you can prove that it is your work.

The Student Code of Conduct (Information, Policy) sets out what the University expects from students as members of the UNSW community. As well as the learning, teaching and research environment, the University aims to provide an environment that enables students to achieve their full potential and to provide an experience consistent with the University's values and guiding principles. A condition of enrolment is that students inform themselves of the University's rules and policies affecting them, and conduct themselves accordingly.

In particular, students have the responsibility to observe standards of equity and respect in dealing with every member of the University community. This applies to all activities on UNSW premises and all external activities related to study and research. This includes behaviour in person as well as behaviour on social media, for example Facebook groups set up for the purpose of discussing UNSW courses or course work. Behaviour that is considered in breach of the Student Code Policy as discriminatory, sexually inappropriate, bullying, harassing, invading another's privacy or causing any person to fear for their personal safety is serious misconduct and can lead to severe penalties, including suspension or exclusion from UNSW.

If you have any concerns, you may raise them with your lecturer, or approach the School Ethics Officer, Grievance Officer, or one of the student representatives.

Plagiarism is defined as using the words or ideas of others and presenting them as your own. UNSW and CSE treat plagiarism as academic misconduct, which means that it carries penalties as severe as being excluded from further study at UNSW. There are several on-line sources to help you understand what plagiarism is and how it is dealt with at UNSW:

• Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
• UNSW Plagiarism Procedure

Make sure that you read and understand these. Ignorance is not accepted as an excuse for plagiarism. In particular, you are also responsible that your assignment files are not accessible by anyone but you by setting the correct permissions in your CSE directory and code repository, if using. Note also that plagiarism includes paying or asking another person to do a piece of work for you and then submitting it as your own work.

UNSW has an ongoing commitment to fostering a culture of learning informed by academic integrity. All UNSW staff and students have a responsibility to adhere to this principle of academic integrity. Plagiarism undermines academic integrity and is not tolerated at UNSW. Plagiarism at UNSW is defined as using the words or ideas of others and passing them off as your own.

If you haven't done so yet, please take the time to read the full text of

• UNSW's policy regarding academic honesty and plagiarism

The pages below describe the policies and procedures in more detail:

• Student Code Policy
• Student Misconduct Procedure
• Plagiarism Policy Statement
• Plagiarism Procedure

You should also read the following page which describes your rights and responsibilities in the CSE context: Essential Advice for CSE Students

Continual course improvement

Student feedback on this course, and on the lecturing in this course, will be gathered via questionnaires held at or after the end of the course. Student feedback is taken seriously, and continual improvements are made to the course based in part on this feedback. The course questionnaire results go to the Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, who reads the results and follows up in cases where action is clearly needed.

The project has been turned into a research and development project to give the students an opportunity to define their own project. We have also updated the sensor hardware to SensorTag as they have wide applicability in the emerging Internet of Things.

Further information

• Students enrolled in COMP6733 are expected to attend all classes
• The use of School of Computer Science and Engineering computing laboratories is subject to rules described on this page. This page also outlines what to do in case illness or misadventure that affects your assessment, and supplementary examinations procedures within the School of Computer Science and Engineering.
• Information on UNSW Occupational Health and Safety policies and expectations 
• Diversity issues