6.808 Calendar: Spring 2022

Here is the tentative schedule of lectures and due dates.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
Jan 31
First day of classes
LEC 1: Introduction and Key Ideas (Slides)
Assigned: Lab 0
Feb 1
Feb 2
LEC 2: Fundamentals of IoT Localization (Slides)
Preparation: Read Location-based Services, Wikipedia: GPS (Questions)
Feb 3
Feb 4
iOS Tutorial
3-4 PM in room 56-154 and virtually (Slides, Recording)
Feb 7
LEC 3: Practical Device-based Localization (indoor & outdoor) (Notes)
Preparation: Read Cricket, RADAR (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 1
Assigned: Pset 1
DUE: Lab 0
Feb 8
Feb 9
LEC 4: Seeing through Walls & Device-Free Localization (Slides)
Preparation: Read WiTrack (Questions)
Feb 10
Feb 11
Feb 14
LEC 5: Network Connectivity (BLE, low-power WAN, Wi-Fi, cellular, 5G)
Preparation: Read gps surveillance
(Slides)
DUE: Lab 1
Feb 15 Feb 16
LEC 6: Mesh and Multi-Hop Wireless Networks (Slides)
Preparation: Read ETX (Questions)
Feb 17
Feb 18
Feb 21
Presidents' Day
Feb 22
Monday schedule
LEC 7: Batteryless Connectivity & Smart Cities (Slides)
Preparation: Read Hacking RFIDs and Caraoke (without section 8) (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 2
Feb 23
LEC 8: Intro to Inertial Sensing; Activity Recognition (Slides)
Preparation: Read Developments of Inertial Sensing and Principles of Inertial Sensing (Section 3.1 and 3.2 only) (Questions)
Feb 24 Feb 25
Feb 28
LEC 9: Pothole detection (Slides)
Preparation: Read Pothole Patrol (Questions)
DUE: Pset 1
Mar 1 Mar 2
LEC 10: Crash Mapping (Slides)
Preparation: Read Crash Rate Maps for Roads (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 3
DUE: Lab 2
Mar 3 Mar 4
Mar 7
LEC 11: Mobile & Augmented/Mixed Reality (real-time object recognition) (Slides)
Preparation: Read Glimpse (Questions)
Assigned: Pset 2
Assigned: Project Proposal Instructions
Mar 8 Mar 9
LEC 12: Health & Vitals sensing (Slides)
Preparation: Read Vital-Radio and Smartphone-based Hemoglobin sensing (plus Optional Reading on HemaApp) (Questions)
DUE: Lab 3
Mar 10 Mar 11
Mar 14
LEC 13: Attacks on Acoustic Sensing (Slides)
Preparation: Read BackDoor
(Questions)
Assigned: Lab 4
Mar 15 Mar 16
LEC 14: Agriculture IoT (Slides)
Preparation: Read FarmBeats (Questions)
DUE: Project Proposals
Mar 17 Mar 18
Mar 21
Spring Break
Mar 22
Spring Break
Mar 23
Spring Break
Mar 24
Spring Break
Mar 25
Spring Break
Mar 28
LEC 15: Ocean IoT (Slides)
Preparation: Read Underwater Backscatter Networking (Questions)

Mar 29 Mar 30
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Lab 4
Mar 31 Apr 1
Apr 4
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Pset 2
Apr 5 Apr 6
Quiz Review Session
DUE: Final project components due
Apr 7 Apr 8
Apr 11
Midterm during lecture time
Apr 12 Apr 13
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Apr 14 Apr 15
Apr 18
Patriots' Day
Apr 19
Drop date
Apr 20
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
May 21 Apr 22
Apr 25
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Apr 26 Apr 27
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Apr 28 Apr 29
May 2
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Project Titles and Abstracts
May 3 May 4
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
May 5
May 6
May 9
Presentation
DUE: Presentations and Demos
May 10
Last day of classes
May 11
May 12
May 13
Finals begin