A determination of the smartness level of university campuses: the Smart Availability Scale (SAS)

Abstract

Technological developments on university campuses are among the most recently investigated topics, but the whole notion of a smart campus has yet to be developed. A smart campus can only be comprehended as a whole, which is why it requires an extensive planning process. This article investigates the required smart campus services with a holistic approach. The smart campus concept has been defined by three major categories: smart building, the scope, and the technology, and then the aspects that affect these categories are defined. A fundamental calculation has been constructed based on the smart campus concept created with newly consolidated categories and a case study with post-occupancy evaluations. The Smart Availability Scale (SAS) calculation is based on superimposing two matrices: campus system output and weighted value matrix. For this calculation, the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method was adopted using newly created index parameters and categories. The technologies selected for this research are based on the most recent developments. It extracted valuable conclusions and inferences from this smart campus conceptual framework, providing insights and directions toward the required calculation technique for the services offered by the smart campus. During the evaluation period of traditional to smart universities, this research draws an outline and guidance for the stakeholders of the affiliated campus.

Improvisation Strategies for Student Affairs Informatization Management in China

“…Chinese scholars mostly use the US as an example to explore the development path of student affairs management informatization in Chinese colleges and universities. Smart Campus is a combination of advanced technologies to realize efficient, versatile, and usercentered information technology services (Samancioglu & Nuere, 2023), which has become increasingly popular in the academic community (Joshy et al, 2023), although the research level is still conceptual (Polin et al, 2023). Among the hotspots of Chinese universities' construction of informatization in 2021, "Smart Campus" occupies the first place in most of the rankings (Zhong et al, 2022), and Chinese universities have already focused the direction of informatization on the construction of smart campus and data management and governance, to provide intelligent services for students and staffs.…”

Examining IoT-Based Smart Campus Adoption Model: An Investigation Using Two-Stage Analysis Comprising Structural Equation Modelling and Artificial Neural Network

“…Other studies propose the criteria and indicators for successful smart campus initiatives [54]- [59]. There is an extensive literature on the theoretical or conceptual framework for smart campuses [56], [60]- [63], and utilizing multi-decision criteria to investigate the factors for smart campuses [27], [64], [65]. Specifically, several studies, e.g., [42], [66], have explored the implementation of IoT in the educational sector.…”

“…Implementation and experiment, survey and validation [65] 2023 The study introduces a Smart Availability Scale (SAS) for evaluating smart campus services through multi-criteria decision-making methods.…”