Summer school

The "Connecting your IoT devices" Summer School is organized to offer 4 ECTS in the fields of digital electronics, embedded software and networking for IoT. Both hardware and software aspects of IoT will be presented and discussed during the school, and hands-on practical courses will allow attendees to familiarize with IoT standards. The project will enable you to solve a societal issue with the support of a local company called Eco-Counter which provides solutions to analyse the flow of pedestrians and bikes around the world.

Course leaders
Prof. Olivier Berder and Dr. Matthieu Gautier are Professor and Associate Professor, respectively, both at IUT Lannion - Rennes 1 university. Their research activities are in the two complementary fields of embedded systems and digital communications for energy efficient wireless systems.
They conducted researches in the IoT field for more than a decade and published together more than 40 scientific papers in that field.

The summer school provides theoretical and practical lessons about recent advances in enabling technologies for smart devices leveraging sensors, electronics and future wireless transceivers, systems and networks in scenarios such as IoT, Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS), autonomous vehicles, robots or UAVs.

Students will discover the various aspects of a smart device, from the sensors themselves to the data processing and transmission. Classical IoT standards will be detailed (BLE, ZigBee...). Long range communications (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT...) will be also investigated.

Practical lessons will consist in a team project whose aim is to develop a prototype for innovative IoT applications. Each small groups (4 people) will conduct the full project: from the application specifications to a demonstration of their prototype. The prototype will be based on various sensors and wireless transceivers plugged to Arduino motherboards.
This project will also give you the opportunity to solve a societal challenge to measure human activities with the best energy efficiency and reasonable resource use.
A final presentation is foreseen. After passing the presentation ENSSAT will register the course as an official exam of 4 ECTS.

French lesson courses
Some lessons will be organized to give you some introductory basis to the French language and some cultural insights about the Breton culture

Course leaders: Dr Nathalie Caradec,
French language teacher

Carine Hutton, Director and teacher at
the language school English Connect

Intercultural communication

This course will enable you to enhance your intercultural awareness and improve your communication skills in participating in active workshops

Course leaders: Zdeněk Janik, professor at Masaryk University,
Czech Republic, specializes in teaching and research in
intercultural communication and intercultural students' experience

Claire Le Page, director of
international relations at ENSSAT

Green IT

Digital technologies have multiple impacts on our natural environment: energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, resource depletion.
The purpose of this training is to provide learners with theoretical and practical bases to analyze the environmental impacts of equipment or services over their entire life cycle with a view to reducing them.

Course leader: Philippe Quémerais, sustainable development coordinator