A Context Aware Smart Classroom Architecture for Smart Campuses

Abstract

The Smart campus is a concept of an education institute using technologies, such as information systems, internet of things (IoT), and context-aware computing, to support learning, teaching, and administrative activities. Classrooms are important building blocks of a school campus. Therefore, a feasible architecture for building and running smart classrooms is essential for a smart campus. However, most studies related to the smart classroom are focused on studying or addressing particular technical or educational issues, such as networking, AI applications, lecture quality, and user responses to technology. In this study, an architecture for building and running context-aware smart classrooms is proposed. The proposed architecture consists of three parts including a prototype of a context-aware smart classroom, a model for technology integration, and supporting measures for the operation of smart classrooms in this architecture. The classroom prototype was designed based on our study results and a smart classroom project in Ming Chuan University (MCU). The integration model was a layered model uses Raspberry Pi in the bottom layer of the model to integrate underlying technologies and provide application interfaces to the higher layer applications for the ease of building context-aware smart classroom applications. As a result, application interfaces were implemented using Raspberry Pi based on the proposed technology integration model, and a context-aware energy-saving smart classroom application was implemented based on the proposed classroom prototype and the implemented web application interface. The result shows that, in terms of technology, the proposed architecture is feasible for building context-aware smart classrooms in smart campuses.3 of 34 as follows. The related works are reviewed in the following subsections of this section. The components of the proposed architecture, including a context-aware smart classroom prototype, a technology integration model, and the supporting measures for smart classroom operations, are described in Section 2. The implementations to prove the concepts of the proposed architecture are demonstrated in Section 3. Discussions and conclusions are given in Section 4. Background and Related WorksStudies related to this study are reviewed in this section. Studies related to different topics, including classroom environment, context-aware, energy issues, and Ming Chuan University (MCU) Smart Classroom Project, are reviewed in the following four subsections respectively. Physical Environment and Smart ClassroomsSome research works focus on taking a smart classroom as a tool to measure lecture quality. In [8], authors use sensors to retrieve features, such as noise level, CO 2 level, temperature, humidity, lecturers' voice, and lecturers' motion, in smart classrooms. Collected data are evaluated by various classification algorithms. The result shows that CO 2 level, temperature, humidity, and noise level are the main environmental factors that affect lecture quality. The relations...

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