COIT 20246 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
Due date: Thursday Week 11 (2PM AEST)
Part: Written Assessment
Weighting: 30% of total assessment.
Submission: Electronic (see course website for details)
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Instructions
It will be necessary to use online resources to complete this assignment, please ensure you cite and reference any such materials using the Harvard format.
DO NOT copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not use your own words!
Please complete your assignment using this submission template file, inserting your responses where indicated.
DO NOT delete the marking criteria page – changes are permitted to the formatting of other pages including the headers and footers.
Tasks
There are ten (10) tasks, one for each week: the tasks are detailed below. There is a table to complete for each task. Please fill in the information required.
Note: Each resource summary should be around 200-300 words.
Each summary should briefly explain:
– What the resource is about
– Why you selected it
– What are the main points or key information covered in the resource
– Why the resource was useful.
For more advice about how to complete the assignment, as well as examples and information about selecting good resources, please see the assessment page on the Moodle unit web site:
https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/assign/view.php?id=965540
Example
The “Internet of things” is an emerging trend towards smart interconnected embedded technologies that allow us to monitor and control our environment. Collect and summarise an online resource that describes ONE example or application of the Internet of things.
Title, Link and Reference:
Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They Leading the IoT Revolution — or Vice Versa?
Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They Leading the IoT Revolution — or Vice Versa?
Lars, N 2014, ‘Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They Leading the IoT Revolution — or Vice Versa?’, Wired, June 2014, viewed 1 February 2017,
Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They Leading the IoT Revolution — or Vice Versa?
Note: You may use abbreviated URLs (to the website) in the reference, however you must provide the FULL link above it that, when pasted into the Web Browser, will take the marker directly to the resource. Using full URLs in the reference (as in this example) is fine too.
Summary:
Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They Leading the IoT Revolution — or Vice Versa?
This article describes the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the context of medical devices. I chose this article because it not only examines the applications of a very useful class of IoT devices, but it also highlights the need for ways of collecting and processing the data they produce.
In the article, the author describes how many medical monitoring devices are now capable of connecting to the Internet and are becoming a normal part of patient care. These devices allow remote monitoring of patient health wirelessly and can collect data on a wide range of vital signs and indicators. Data can be collected from a range of sensors reading everything from heart rate and blood pressure through to blood sugar levels and temperature.
In addition to passive monitors, IoT medical devices provide the ability to proactively prompt patients to do things, for example to warn them of their blood pressure or to alert them that they need more medication. The article points out that many of these notifications are the result of apps (software) interacting with both the devices and the patients.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the article is the author’s discussion of what happens to the data that the IoT medical devices produce. The author explains that many devices can send data directly to the cloud for storage and analysis and that this data constitutes a wealth of information that will potentially improve healthcare in the future.
I found this article useful because it not only highlighted the increasing ubiquity of Internet-connected medical devices, but also made me think about how the data is collected, where it is stored and how it could be used – both positively and negatively – in the future.
Week 1
The text discusses about different architectures for parallel processing used for Multiprocessor Machines such as multiple-instruction stream – multiple-data stream (MIMD), single-instruction stream – multiple-data stream (SIMD) etc. Find and summarise ONE resource that compares between MIMD and SIMD architectures. The resource, and your summary, must focus only on MIMD and SIMD architectures.
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Week 2
The text discusses about one of the common problems that can arise during resource allocation in operating systems, which is known as deadlock. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes an algorithm of either deadlock avoidance or deadlock prevention. The resource, and your summary, must focus on a single algorithm of either deadlock avoidance or deadlock prevention, NOT both.
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Week 3
Internet of things (IoT) is an emerging trend towards smart interconnected embedded technologies that allow us to monitor and control our environment. Find and summarise ONE resource that describe applications of the Internet of things in the field of Smart Farming. The resource, and your summary, must focus on application of IoT ONLY in the field of smart farming.
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Week 4
The text discusses about IPv4, however, IPv6 is the emerging protocol which is in the process of superseding IPv4. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes about the technologies that are used to run both protocols simultaneously over the same internet infrastructure.
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Week 5
Network security has become a major concern of ICT world, and user authentication is one of the popular tools to assure network security. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes any ONE authentication mechanism except password. The resource, and your summary, should focus purely on ONLY ONE type of authentication mechanism.
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Week 6
The text discusses about a massive data breach that happened in Target company, which is referred as ‘Target Breach’. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes another recent (within last 5 years) well-publicised attack or security breach on a public company or government organisation. The resource, and your summary, should describe about A SINGLE EXAMPLE of security breach.
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Week 7
The text briefly discusses about e-commerce and e-business. Find and summarise ONE resource that discusses the relationship between e-commerce and e-business. The resource, and your summary, should describe similarities and difference between e-commerce and e-business.
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Week 8
The text book discusses about the success story of ARI (Automotive Resources International) company after implementing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and integrating it with HANA. HANA is SAP’s in-memory computing platform that is deployable as an on-premise hardware and software appliance or in the cloud. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes the success story of adapting SAP HANA by another local or international company. The resource, and your summary, should focus on the story about ONE single company (which is not ARI company).
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Week 9
Rapid application development (RAD) is a process of creating a workable system in a very short period of time. There are few recently developed frameworks available in market to undertake RAD. Find and summarise ONE recent (within last two years) resource that describes and recommends about ONE framework for RAD.
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Week 10
The failure to successfully implement large scale IS has led to the downfall of many previously successful companies. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes few reasons of implementation failure for large scale IS. The resource, and your summary, should analyse at least three reasons of the failure.
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MARKING SHEET – DO NOT DELETE
Criteria 0 No Response
<=1 Poor resource selection; resource is too broad or lacks relevance to the task; summary fails to explain what the resource was about; the relevance and/or usefulness of the resource has not been explained.
<=2 Good resource selection; resource is relevant to the task; summary is adequate but may require either more detail or is too long; the relevance and/or usefulness of the resource has been explained to some extent, but needs additional information.
<=3 Excellent resource selection; resource is highly relevant to the task (the resource is probably highly specialised); summary is detailed yet concise; the relevance and usefulness of the resource selection has been clearly explained.
Key
Deductions -3
-2
-1 Reference/URL provided does not link to resource (and resource cannot be located or determined from details provided) OR
Reference/URL provided does not relate to the summary (i.e. summary is not of resource content/contains content not contained in the resource) OR
Multiple resources used for a single task
Resource is generic AND/OR covers multiple technologies/examples rather than focuses on a single technology/example
Resource not referenced correctly/not in Harvard format
Week Marks Awarded
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