ICT220 Telecommunications and Networks Task 2 Semester 1, 2016ICT220 Telecommunications and Networks Task 2 Page 2 of 6 Assessment and Submission Details Marks: 35% of the Total Assessment for the Course Due Date: 11:59pm Friday, 3rd June 2016 Submit your assignment to the link under Assessment->Task 2 on Blackboard. The submission link will be open a week before the due date. Please follow the submission instructions provided. The assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 35% of the total assessment for the course. ALL assignments will be checked for plagiarism by SafeAssign system provided by Blackboard automatically. Refer to your Course Outline or the Course Web Site for a copy of the "Student Misconduct, Plagiarism and Collusion" guidelines. Assignment submission extensions will only be made using the official Faculty of Arts & Business Guidelines. Requests for an extension to an assignment MUST be made to the course coordinator prior to the date of submission and requests made on the day of submission or after the submission date will only be considered in exceptional circumstances.ICT220 Telecommunications and Networks Task 2 Page 3 of 6 Background The Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) is one of Australia's leading councils for technological innovation and development. To maintain this standing, the council is commissioning you to create a report on the potential for a Smart Cities: Open Internet of Things initiative. As part of this report you are to investigate two internet of things and/or networking & telecoms infrastructures as they could be applied to an open IoT infrastructure for the Sunshine Coast. As an initial proof-of-concept, SCC has commissioned a smart parking app, that can sense when parks are available, and route a user to the nearest free park. Initially this installation will occur at the Sippy Downs Campus of the University of the Sunshine Coast; however, it is envisaged that the parking project will be extended into Maroochydore, and then across all SCC building locations. In this report, you need to select or design two internet of things solutions. You should also compare and contrast two selected (or designed) infrastructures/technology solutions based on appropriateness for the Sunshine Coast Council area's current and predicted future needs. You should consider 1. Infrastructure E.g. Internet connection, LAN, Wireless LANs, Other wireless technologies (Blutooth LE, RF, etc), Cellular/WAN, IoT specific technologies/infrastructures 2. Existing Technology Solutions E.g. LoRaWAN, OpenIoT 3. Data Storage and Processing Facilities E.g. Data centers, Cloud computing, distributed storage and processing The items listed in each category are not compulsory or complete. Some items can span across several categories. You have the freedom to include any item you feel important. When you provide solutions to each category, remember to explain their benefits to some of the following items: • Power utilization/storage • Cost (initial: e.g. of hardware, or ongoing: e.g. traffic costs) • Security/Privacy • Openness/Ease of use • Data ownership/AccessibilityICT220 Telecommunications and Networks Task 2 Page 4 of 6 Report Format Your report should be no less than 1,500 words and it would be best to be no longer than 2,500 words long. The report MUST be formatted using the following guidelines: • Paragraph text – 12 point Calibri single line spacing • Headings – Arial in an appropriate type size • Margins – 2.5cm on all margins • Header – Report title • Footer – page number (including the word "Page") • Page numbering – roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv) up to and including the Table of Contents, restart numbering using conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) from the first page after the Table of Contents. • Title Page – Must not contain headers or footers. Include your name as the report's author, your student ID and course code/name. • The report is to be created as a single Microsoft Word document (version 2007, 2010, 2013 or Office 365). PDF may be also be used for submission. The report is to be structured as a formal business report. Refer to the following references for details on report structures: Summers, J. & Smith, B., 2014, Communication Skills Handbook, 4th Ed, Wiley, Australia. Referencing The report is to include (at least 5) appropriate references and these references should follow the Harvard, IEEE or APA method of referencing. Note that ALL references should be from reputable sources such as journal articles, conference papers, technical papers or a recognized expert in the field. DO NOT use Wikipedia as a reference. Submission The completed assignment is to be submitted to Blackboard by the due date of 11:59pm Friday, 3rd June 2016. The assignment will be assessed according to the marking sheet. Late submission will be penalised according to the policy in the course outline. Please note Saturday and Sunday are included in the count of days late.ICT220 Telecommunications and Networks Task 2 Page 5 of 6 Appendix A Marking Sheet for ICT220 2016.S1 Assignment 2 Student name: Student ID: Items Maximum Marks Marks Obtained Report formatting (font, header and footer, table of content, numbering, referencing) 5 Professional communication (correct spelling, grammar, formal business language used) 5 Executive summary 10 Report introduction 10 Solution 1 20 Solution 2 20 Comparison/Contrast between solutions 20 Conclusion and Recommendations 10 Total = 100 0.0 0.0 /35% OVERALL COMMENTS: