Smart Campus within a Smart City

“A Smart Campus” could be envisaged as a community of technologically interconnected academics and students within a Smart City. To launch a Smart Campus, one would need to identify specialized technical and non-technical skills available on a real time basis.

How would Smart Campus help?

1. Higher education researchers, educators, and students are in a vantage position to lead in inventing, innovating, discovering and developing IoT devices, applications, systems, and services.
2. It (Smart Campus) would lay the foundation for adding thrust to connectivity within the Smart City linking unconnected/non- networked points.
3. It should give an impetus to innovation – be the intellectual innovation lab of the Smart City.
4. It could evolve digitalized trading platforms (electronic bourses) so that trading at cheaper prices is feasible.
5. It could experiment in security intended monitoring and surveillance.
6. It could help erect/ commission smart buildings (energy efficient, ecologically sustainable, cost affordable).
7. It could use analytics to predictively mine Big data. The use of predictive analytics in learning would help dynamic behavioural pattern identification and help appreciate how students learn and respond to different types and levels of interventions.  This could be extended to all city residents eventually.  
8. Could be into operations' research on operational cost reduction and enhanced productivity. Potential cost savings include the areas of smart lighting, smart waste management, smart traffic signalling, smart parking, smart building optimisation.
9. Technology’s capacity to drive a better experience and outcome for students. The transmission of information flow would be dynamic, with real time assimilation of data flows with contacts between mobile and stationary elements and mobile to mobile elements. Elements.
10. The new Smart Campuses should fructify private-public partnerships.

Examples

1. At Virginia Tech, the  VT Alerts  system notifies students, staff, and faculty of a campus emergency situation. Smart campuses could use smartphones and wearables like students'  smartwatches etc. as a connectable communications mechanism.
2. The University of Washington, a student-developed app— OneBusAway—provides real-time information for metro-area bus systems.
3. University of Wisconsin:  Students create IoT apps end-to-end systems from devices speaking with other local devices such as in a smart home, communicating over a network to centralized management systems and to applications in the cloud. The UW-Madison IoT lab helps evolve new business models innovations, using IoT-enabled systems. This creates new services and integrate and analyses data from systems to increase  add value to businesses and consumers. The University has a multidisciplinary approach.

References:

1   SmartCampus: A user-centric testbed for Internet of Things experimentation Michele Nati, Alexander Gluhak, Hamidreza Abangar and William Headley Centre for Communication Systems Research University of Surrey

2  Internet of Everything – Powering the Smart Campus & the Smart City Geelong’s Transformation to a Smart City, Report by Brad Davies, dandolo partners

3   The Internet of Things is Here by Florence D Hudson