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TSC Category Design and Architecture
TSC Title Embedded Systems Interface Design
TSC Description Design and set up interface and interconnections from or among sensors, through a network, to a main location, to enable transmission of information
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
TSC Proficiency
Description ICT-DES-4002-1.1 ICT-DES-5002-1.1
Design physical layouts Guide the design of sensor
reflecting connections networks and the associated
among sensors, networks embedded systems
and data collection or interfaces, and verify the
transmitting systems, and viability of the designed
test and fine tune them interfaces
Knowledge • Sensor networks • Methodologies and key
concepts and principles principles in designing
of operation integrated sensor
• Key components of networks
sensor networks and • Data structures in sensor
their characteristics networks
• Different types of data • Various connectivity
collection or transmitting options and
devices, programs, considerations among
systems and methods sensors, smart devices
• Different types of and other technologies
connections among • New and emerging
electrical and electronic technologies for data
devices, embedded collection and
systems, software and transmission
sensors • Range of analytical or
• Application of sensors, scientific simulation
actuators and software
transducers, and • Conditions and
associated wiring parameters for testing
systems viability of embedded
• Usage of simulation or system or sensor
modelling software for network
sensor networks • Internet of Things (IoT)
• Types and usage of guidelines and
tests on sensor networks communication
• IoT system interface standards
concepts and principles • Verification process for
connection of sensors
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• Functions and • Large scale monitoring
operations of virtual and analytics
and/or digital databases applications and
• Security considerations technologies
for sensor networks • Types and functions of
electronics in sensor
networks
Abilities • Develop physical layouts • Direct the design of
or maps reflecting embedded systems
connections among interconnections and
sensors, networks and interfaces
data collection or • Examine the architecture
transmitting systems and operating principles
• Design interfaces among of data structures in
embedded systems, embedded system
software and sensors interfacing
• Identify the appropriate • Create schematics and
hardware devices and physical layouts of
software programmes integrated sensor
needed to capture and networks and systems
transmit desired • Evaluate the appropriate
information data capturing and
• Operate a set of network transmitting technologies
management tools and tools
• Calibrate embedded • Evaluate operating
system devices or data system functions in
collection equipment to embedded systems
ensure connections are and/or sensor networks
stable against user needs
• Utilise simulation or • Oversee the modelling
modelling software to and testing of
model and test interconnections among
interconnections among devices and programs
devices and programs • Establish environmental,
• Implement user capacity and user
acceptance testing to acceptance conditions
test the embedded for the testing of the
systems interfaces embedded system
and/or products network design
• Implement embedded • Verify the technical,
systems to the real world operational and business
context viability of the designed
• Tune the deployed sensor networks
system to ensure it
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delivers the expected
outcome
• Conduct troubleshooting
of sensor network
failures
Range of Application
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