A Comprehensive Architecture Platform for Smarter Universities

Abstract

One of the most crucial infrastructure requirements of integrated systems is designing and providing a comprehensive architecture for implementation, support and improvement of their smart services or platforms. And without exception, smart University would also require a responsive architecture for the integration and consolidation of its current and future systems and services. Providing higher level of academic services, integration and consolidation support, and cost accounting (including “cloud storage”, “computing”, “network communication and bandwidth” and energy consumption) can be placed as pivotal issues among smart university services. In this article, a basic definition of a smart university and its integrated services will be presented at first. Then, strengths, weaknesses and covering range of conventional smart systems architectures are examined and compared. In the following, a novel perspective of smarter universities and regarding consolidated services are introduced and a comprehensive architecture for the establishment of smart university services and systems is presented. afterward, layers of this architecture, their efficiency and connections are examined. Finally, the covering and responsiveness of the comprehensive architecture are examined from different perspectives; And in an actual example, its optimization is compared to a previously proposed architecture that was implemented in Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran-Iran. In addition, as well, the other results are thoroughly discussed.