Implementation of Internet of Things in Biomedical Measurement and Instrumentation Course Project

Entering the fourth industrial revolution, it is important to prepare the engineering students to have new skills, that is 21
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skills. In Indonesia, the government has a program to overcome the new industrial revolution named Making Indonesia 4.0. One of the priority programs is to upgrade human capital. The implementation of IoT-based Project Learning (IoTbPL) is to support this program. In the 2019/2020 academic year, the instructor has decided the topic is “Smart Baby Incubator” as a case-study of IoT in healthcare. This topic allowed the students to an integrated device that consists of several sensors; actuators; and microcontroller unit, gateway, and server/cloud-based system. Through IoTbPL, the students can gain several skills, such as learning and innovation (4C’s), digital literacy, career and life skills that are proved in the project implementation and results. For example, the students free to determine the smart baby incubator device and the platform of the software. The majority of the students choose ESP8266 as a microcontroller unit that is connected to Android-based applications. Another team proposed to combine two types of microcontroller units: ESP8266 and Arduino Uno. The other one developed a web-based system instead of an Android-based application. In the next academic year, the IoTbPL implementation will focus on reducing the number of team members and proving several project topics.