Hello all. Welcome to the specialization on the Internet of things. The Internet of things, our viewpoint is, it's the convergence of multiple technologies. We will talk about telephony networks, circuit switched. And a lot of innovations give rise to broadcast radio and television, and that in turn led to consumer electronics and the growth of content. Around this time, 1972, DARPA commissioned the development of Internet to do one thing that could not be done, that the telephony networks and the broadcast networks of that time, that is, reliability. And, as we all know, Internet delivered on reliability and went on to subsume the functionality of telephony networks and broadcast networks. So, the next big converging technology was wireless technologies. And that gave us wireless internet and the smartphones. And in this course, we are going to use the smartphone platform to teach you the internet of things and what the future might be. The IoT platform, the indications are it will give us new products and services in the space of automotive industry, healthcare, robotics. The unique thing about this course, this series of courses, is it's completely hands on and lab oriented. And I would like to come and introduce the lab parts about that. Hello, Ganz, come on in. >> Hey, thanks Ari. Hey guys. You're probably all looking to take this course because you're interesting in building your own Internet of things. And I think you've come to the right place. This is gonna be really hands on. Most of the courses here are built by the students of UCSD. You're gonna be working with this Arrow Electronics Dragonboard 410c, which runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. This is, kind of you can think of it like if you take out your smartphone, open up the hood, what you'll find is components in here, so this will form the core of our course. To follow along you would buy one of these. It's not a big deal, it's not that expensive. But I wanna pause here and kinda give you a snapshot of what you're gonna experience throughout this course. You're gonna see some of the lab projects you'll be building. And after that you'll finally end up with a capstone project where you'll create your own ideas and build on it using the 410c. Anyway, I'll leave now to give a little trailer of what you'll experience in the course, and hope to see you in Course one. [MUSIC] Hey guys. I want to introduce you to the rest of the team that made the MOOC possible. I wanted to start with Robert here. But before I wanted to say two students are missing here, [INAUDIBLE] and [INAUDIBLE] but you'll get to see them later throughout the course. Lets start with the chief of students, Robert. >> Thank's [INAUDIBLE] yeah, I'm Robert Wolf. I just recently graduated here at UCSD with electrical engineering and I look forward to meeting everyone throughout these courses coming up. >> I'm Erik Uro, I'm a grad student in the EC department here at UCSD and I'm here to teach you guys some parkour. Just kidding, we're doing electrical [LAUGH] >> My name is Jacob Tirado, I'm a third year here studying computer science at UCSD. And I'm ready for the course. >> And I'm Arger Malakian, I'm also a third year at UCSD doing computer engineering, and I'm going to have a great time doing these courses with you guys. >> And finally I wanna introduce you to the video crew which made the whole course possible. Hector, Alex, Joe, please come in and say hi. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Do a little selfie of yourself. [LAUGH] Hopefully we'll see you guys in course one. Please come back.