Abstract
Advances in technology and data analysis provide rich opportunities for developing intelligent environments assisting their inhabitants, so-called smart environments or smart spaces. Enhanced with technology, sensors, user interfaces, and various applications, such smart spaces are capable of recognizing users and situations they are in, react accordingly, e.g., by providing certain services or changes to the environment itself. Therefore, smart space solutions are gradually coming to different application domains, each with corresponding specific characteristics. In this article, we discuss our experiences and explore the challenges of a long-term real-world Internet of Things (IoT) deployment at a University campus. We demonstrate the technical implementation and data quality issues. We conduct several studies, from data analysis to interaction with space, utilizing the developed infrastructure, and we also share our actions to open the data for education purposes and discuss their outcomes. With this article, we aim to share our experience and provide real-world lessons learned when building an open, multipurpose, publicly used smart space at a University campus.
Highlights
Expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, cloud, mobile, and edge computing, as well as advances in data analysis, provide rich opportunities for developing intelligent environments able to assist their inhabitants, so called smart environments or smart spaces [1]
Our work focuses on a real-world IoT deployment for a multipurpose shared open space at the University campus
Since we consider such deployment as a first step towards smart campus, the literature review presented here will focus on two main aspects: (1) shared smart spaces and corresponding challenges and (2) smart campus solutions that are available in related work
Summary
Expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, cloud, mobile, and edge computing, as well as advances in data analysis, provide rich opportunities for developing intelligent environments able to assist their inhabitants, so called smart environments or smart spaces [1]. We share our experiences from a real-world IoT deployment to multipurpose open space shared by many visitors at a University campus. Tellus Innovation Arena (Tellus) at the University of Oulu, Linnanmaa campus, is an open space that is designed for collaborative work, study, presentations, and includes various kinds of spaces, like meeting rooms, open stage area, cafeteria, study, and rest areas By equipping this place with sensor technology, we aim to understand the space usage better, explore what kind of applications would suit such space and would be beneficial for visitors, as well as highlight challenges observed and lessons learned.
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