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Electronics Worksheet: What Is IoT

Electronics lesson 27: What is IoT? · Set 608 · 40 questions
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Remember (Sense, send, store, show): IoT device = an everyday thing that shares data over the internet (usually Wi-Fi and an app). Data flow: sensor → board → Wi-Fi → cloud → app (and commands back to an actuator). Readings sent = total time ÷ time between readings, in the same units.

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  1. 1.🌐 What does IoT stand for? (a) Internet of Talk (b) Input of Tools (c) Internet of Things (d) Inside of Toys
  2. 2.🌐 Is a Wi-Fi weather station an IoT device? (a) not an IoT device (b) an IoT device
  3. 3.🔢 To get a sensor reading onto a phone, which comes first: “the app shows it” or “the board reads it”? (a) the board reads it (b) the app shows it
  4. 4.What does the microcontroller do? (a) acts on a command (b) measures the real world (c) reads values, decides (d) carries the data
  5. 5.🌐 A soil sensor sends a reading to an app every 15 minutes. How many readings arrive in 3 hours?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a fitness band with app (b) a Wi-Fi smart plug (c) an app-controlled bulb (d) a pencil sharpener
  7. 7.What does the cloud server do? (a) reads values, decides (b) measures the real world (c) stores data online (d) shows data to you
  8. 8.Which of these is an IoT device? (a) a wind-up clock (b) a battery torch (c) an app-controlled bulb (d) a paper calendar
  9. 9.What does the sensor do? (a) stores data online (b) acts on a command (c) measures the real world (d) carries the data
  10. 10.🌐 Is an app-controlled bulb an IoT device? (a) not an IoT device (b) an IoT device
  11. 11.Which of these is an IoT device? (a) a Wi-Fi weather station (b) a plain wall switch (c) a battery torch (d) a pencil sharpener
  12. 12.🌐 Is a smart energy meter an IoT device? (a) an IoT device (b) not an IoT device
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a Wi-Fi doorbell camera (b) a Wi-Fi weather station (c) a Wi-Fi smart plug (d) a plain wall switch
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a plain wall switch (b) a Wi-Fi weather station (c) a plain table fan (d) a battery torch
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a Wi-Fi weather station (b) a Wi-Fi doorbell camera (c) a fitness band with app (d) a wind-up clock
  16. 16.Which of these is not an IoT device? (a) a Wi-Fi smart plug (b) an app-controlled bulb (c) a paper calendar (d) a fitness band with app
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a fitness band with app (b) a battery torch (c) a Wi-Fi smart plug (d) a Wi-Fi doorbell camera
  18. 18.🌐 Is a Wi-Fi doorbell camera an IoT device? (a) not an IoT device (b) an IoT device
  19. 19.🏠 Which is a smart-home example? (a) lights on from an app (b) a hand fan (c) a candle in a jar (d) a printed map
  20. 20.🌐 A weather station sends one reading every 15 seconds. How many readings does it send in 9 minutes?
  21. 21.Which of these is not an IoT device? (a) a Wi-Fi weather station (b) a fitness band with app (c) a plain table fan (d) a smart energy meter
  22. 22.Which of these is an IoT device? (a) a plain table fan (b) a Wi-Fi doorbell camera (c) a paper calendar (d) a pencil sharpener
  23. 23.🌐 A soil sensor sends a reading to an app every 15 minutes. How many readings arrive in 2 hours?
  24. 24.🔢 To get a sensor reading onto a phone, what comes right after “the board reads it”? (a) the app shows it (b) it is sent by Wi-Fi (c) the cloud stores it (d) the sensor measures
  25. 25.🌐 A weather station sends one reading every 30 seconds. How many readings does it send in 4 minutes?
  26. 26.Which of these is an IoT device? (a) a battery torch (b) a plain wall switch (c) a wind-up clock (d) a smart energy meter
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a smart energy meter (b) a wind-up clock (c) a plain wall switch (d) a plain table fan
  28. 28.🌐 How does a home IoT device usually send its data to the app? (a) by shouting (b) through a candle (c) over Wi-Fi (d) by post
  29. 29.What does the actuator do? (a) stores data online (b) acts on a command (c) measures the real world (d) carries the data
  30. 30.🔢 To get a sensor reading onto a phone, which comes first: “the board reads it” or “the app shows it”? (a) the app shows it (b) the board reads it
  31. 31.🌐 In an IoT system, which part acts on a command? (a) microcontroller (b) actuator (c) sensor (d) cloud server
  32. 32.🔢 To get a sensor reading onto a phone, which comes first: “it is sent by Wi-Fi” or “the app shows it”? (a) it is sent by Wi-Fi (b) the app shows it
  33. 33.🌐 In an IoT system, which part measures the real world? (a) Wi-Fi (b) sensor (c) cloud server (d) microcontroller
  34. 34.🌐 A weather station sends one reading every 60 seconds. How many readings does it send in 6 minutes?
  35. 35.🌐 Each reading a sensor sends is 25 bytes. How many bytes do 160 readings take?
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a plain table fan (b) a fitness band with app (c) an app-controlled bulb (d) a Wi-Fi smart plug
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a plain wall switch (b) a wind-up clock (c) a battery torch (d) an app-controlled bulb
  38. 38.🌐 In an IoT system, which part reads values, decides? (a) sensor (b) microcontroller (c) actuator (d) Wi-Fi
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a smart energy meter (b) a paper calendar (c) a fitness band with app (d) an app-controlled bulb
  40. 40.🔢 To get a sensor reading onto a phone, which comes first: “the cloud stores it” or “the app shows it”? (a) the app shows it (b) the cloud stores it

Answer key

  1. Internet of Things
  2. an IoT device
  3. the board reads it
  4. reads values, decides
  5. 12
  6. a pencil sharpener
  7. stores data online
  8. an app-controlled bulb
  9. measures the real world
  10. an IoT device
  11. a Wi-Fi weather station
  12. an IoT device
  13. a plain wall switch
  14. a Wi-Fi weather station
  15. a wind-up clock
  16. a paper calendar
  17. a battery torch
  18. an IoT device
  19. lights on from an app
  20. 36
  21. a plain table fan
  22. a Wi-Fi doorbell camera
  23. 8
  24. it is sent by Wi-Fi
  25. 8
  26. a smart energy meter
  27. a smart energy meter
  28. over Wi-Fi
  29. acts on a command
  30. the board reads it
  31. actuator
  32. it is sent by Wi-Fi
  33. sensor
  34. 6
  35. 4000
  36. a plain table fan
  37. an app-controlled bulb
  38. microcontroller
  39. a paper calendar
  40. the cloud stores it

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