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An activity-based approach for the early identification and resolution of problems in the development of IoT systems in academic projects

Abstract:

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) systems in university courses encourages students to use multiple skills. Hence, the importance of applying teaching methods like Project Based Learning (PBL) in the development of these kinds of systems for integrating hardware and software components while facing numerous real-life problems. This study presents an activity-based Approach for the Early Identification and Resolution of problems, in a checklist format, to be used by students for preventing them from wasting time in IoT academic projects. The checklist is based on an adapted taxonomy of problems in IoT systems. This study analyzed problems identified in 48 projects carried out by 183 engineering students registered in two courses in 2020 and 2021. For designing the structured checklist, we categorized 14 types of IoT problems, analyzed root causes and solutions, and created and evaluated a taxonomy of problems.