Infra Project 2025
ICT Infrastructure project PRO4TF023-3011 & ICT-infrastruktuurit - Projekti ICI008AS3A-3002

Create your own project with your team.

You'll get the whole 10 cr to build your own project.

Previous student projects: evil USB keyboard, AI log analysis, physical access control, encrypted communications with free software, machine vision... What will you build?


Course name and code:	ICT Infrastructure project pro4tf023-3011 and ICT-infrastruktuurit - Projekti pro4tn004-3002
Timing	2025 whole spring, periods p3 and p4.
Credits	10 cr
Classes	Blended: physical meetings in timetable + working weekly in groups + steering meetings
Max students	30
Language	English (rally English accepted for our meetings)
Remote	No, blended: both online and in Pasila pa5001.
Feedback	5.0 / 5 Excellent feedback.
Services	Moodle, Jitsi, Zoom. Optionally Tero's list.
Teachers	Tero Karvinen and Harto Holmström
First class	2025-01-17 w03 Fri Fri 11:00, in Haaga-Helia Pasila pa5001

Presentations are in English. If you're in an all Finnish group, you can use Finnish internally. But this is a great chance to practice real-life rally English.

Timetable

The course consists of

Individual project work every week
Team meetings every week (or more)
Guidance meeting (teacher+group)
Meetings with all groups, listed below

Time	Agenda
2025-01-17 w03 Fri	Course kick-off (introductions, outlining project topics and project plan) 11-14 pa5001
2025-01-24 w04 Fri	Specification of the project topic, starting the project plan. 11-14 pa5001.
2025-01-31 w05 Fri	Working on the project plan and finalizing the project plan. 11-14 pa5001.
2025-02-07 w06 Fri	Presentations of project plans. 11-14 pa5001.
(w07)	(Project implementation)
(w08)	(No classes, winter holiday)
(w09 - w17)	(Project implementation. Note that w12 is an intensive week)
(w18)	(Finalizing the project, project documentations and reports)
2025-05-09 w19 Fri	Project presentations . 11-14 pa5001.
2025-05-16 w20 Fri	project presentations (continued). 11-14 pa5001.

Reserve these important whole group meetings from your calendar. In addition to these meetings, you'll be working on your project every school week.

You can schedule your group work with your group as you wish (within reason). Group and supervisory meetings have mandatory participation, and they happen at specific times.

*Official timetable in Moodle.

Student Projects

Like greek to me? Don't worry, since 2017 we have had projects of every level, from "dog ate my homework" to "teachers amazed". I have guided the projects with Harto Holmström, but the real work has been done by the students. You can see their names or nicks in the linked articles. On the final presentations they usually find that they could not have believed in the first day what they would succesfully build.

2023 projects

PhishSticks USB HID attack simulation

PhishSticks can simulate USB HID attacks for penetration testing. When USB device is connected, it drops the payload without any other user action. Sample payloads are keylogger, reverse shell and ransomware simulation. Windows 10 Defender with default settings is bypassed.

PhishSticks video is a good overview of the capabilities. PhishSticks was also presented on my ethical hacking course and in HelSec flash talks.

Remember to keep your pentesting work both legal and ethical. Never connect an unknown USB device to your computer. PhishSticks also provides more advanced mitigations you can implement in your enterprise network.

SmartDisc frishbee throw measurement

SmartDisc, a frisbee throw measurement prototype.

SmartDisc is an ESP32-WROOM microcontroller based device on the frisbee. It uses MPU-6050 3 access gyroscope and accelometer chip for tilt and acceleration measurements, and estimates speed based on acceleration. ESP32 built-in Bluetooth is used for connecting to cell phone. The interface is serial over USB. The work is a functional prototype. The device is not rugged or small yet, and speed estimates are not verified.

I had a change to throw the prototype and see my stats on a cell phone.

SmartQuery AI bot about Haaga-Helia courses

SmartQuery, an AI chatbot for Haaga-Helia courses. Part of Haaga-Helia study guide was crawled and stored to a vector database. An open weight model Llama 2 uses the vector database to answer users questions. This is called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). User can access a web app to chat with the bot. (A demo was available in December 2023).