Design and Implementation of a Smart Campus Flexible Internet of Things Architecture on a Brazilian University

This work proposes a flexible and comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) architecture designed for application on smart campuses to build their smart infrastructure and facilitate their transition to becoming smart. The concept of a smart campus is derived from the concept of a smart city, which was developed to demonstrate how urban areas were addressing their new and dynamic challenges by integrating technology and data-driven decision-making. Although the concept of the smart campus was initially conceived to study the smart city in a less complex setting, over time, both concepts have evolved into distinct areas of inquiry, exhibiting unique characteristics and impacts. In general, a smart campus is a university campus where information and communication technologies and IoT are applied to some or all the campus processes, thereby making these processes more efficient, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable for the institution, its members and the surrounding community. Additionally to presenting the proposal for a flexible and comprehensive architecture for a smart campus, this paper also demonstrates its interpretation for implementation on a Brazilian campus transitioning to become smart, the Institute of Science and Technology, Sorocaba (ICTS) - campus of the São Paulo State University (Unesp) in Sorocaba, Brazil. To the best of the authors' knowledge, there is a scarcity of existing works which address this level of detail when proposing an IoT architecture for a smart campus. The implementation of this architecture has demonstrated that it can be successfully deployed using only open-source technologies. Furthermore, it has been shown that anyone with access to the campus website can access most of the data collected and stored on the system.

Keywords

Data integration, energy consumption monitoring, environmental sustainability, information and communication technologies, Internet of Things, open-source technologies, smart infrastructure, Data driven decision, Design and implementations, Energy consumption monitoring, Environmental sustainability, Information and Communication Technologies, Integrating technology, Internet of things architectures, Open-source technology, Smart infrastructures, Urban areas