Scenario
Scenario
‘ChannelCert (PVT) Ltd’ is a leading research and consultancy firm researching new market
trends In the IT industry and IoT applications for corporate clients and the consumer market.
You currently work as a junior infrastructure architect for ’ChannelCert (PVT) Ltd’. As part of
your role, your manager has tasked you to conduct research on Internet of Things applications
and technologies in order to enlighten a new intake of probationary apprentices in
understanding the business, particularly IoT technologies, frameworks, and architecture, as
most probationary apprentices have not covered these topics in their studies.
As a part of this assignment, you then have to select an organization of your choice to plan and
develop a small IoT application to address an existing problem and to achieve the organization’s
goals.
Your manager has asked you to help produce a handbook that introduces the fundamental
concepts of IoT to new apprentices during their orientation. As part of the handbook, you have
been asked to contribute a case study that looks at which aspects of IoT are necessary and
appropriate when designing software applications. You should use a range of real-world case
studies to demonstrate the different IoT architectures and frameworks. A case study involves an
up-close, in-depth, and detailed investigation of a topic and aims to bring the understanding of a
complex issue or topic within a given context, so bear this in mind when devising the case study.
The case study should provide a positive example of an IoT implementation by giving an
overview of the Internet of things concept by evaluating IoT architecture and justifying that it
can be used in designing software applications. As part of the case study, you should include:
• A review of the standard IoT architecture, frameworks, tools, hardware, and APIs (AFTHA)
used in development.
• An analysis of the impact that the use of common IoT AFTHA techniques has in the software
development life cycle (SDLC)
• An evaluation and justification of the specific forms of IoT architecture used when designing
software applications. As this is a case study format, you should use ‘real-world’ examples from
your research to illustrate the IoT architectures you are discussing.
Quantitative data are used when a researcher is trying to quantify a problem, or address the
"what" or "how many" aspects of a research question. It is data that can either be counted or
compared on a numeric scale.
Qualitative data may be difficult to precisely measure and analyze. The data may be in the form
of descriptive words that can be examined for patterns or meaning, sometimes through the use
of coding. Coding allows the researcher to categorize qualitative data to identify themes that
correspond with the research questions and to perform quantitative analysis