Raising Awareness for Water Polution Based on Game Activities Using Internet of Things

Tziortzioti, Chrysanthi; Andreetti, Giuseppe; Rodinò, Lucia; Mavrommati, Irene; Vitaletti, Andrea; Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03062-9_14

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“…There are some recent examples of IoT-driven educational activities performed with the additional objective of increasing students' awareness of societal challenges. Tziortzioti et al (2018) designed and experimented datadriven educational scenarios for secondary schools to raise students' awareness of water pollution. Eriksson et al (2019) is another example of work discussing such issues from a more theoretic standpoint.…”

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Using gamification and IoT-based educational tools towards energy savings - some experiences from two schools in Italy and Greece

Mylonas

Paganelli

Cuffaro³

et al. 2021

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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Climate change and the need for sustainable development have become part of our daily lives. In this context, it is crucial to involve the educational community to the discussion, both students and teachers; by increasing awareness about these issues and the ways school communities can contribute to energy savings, we can kick-start a change towards more sustainable practices in our societies. The Green Awareness in Action (GAIA) H2020 research project implemented an IoT-based approach in several European schools for sustainability awareness and energy efficiency, while at the same time aiming for increasing students' digital skills. By using gamification, competitions and IoT-based educational activities, GAIA engaged directly with teachers and students in order to realize energy-saving activities in their environment. We report here on the use of gamification and competition among schools in this context, and how they helped together with IoT-based lab activities to engage students and educators to participate in the project more actively. We provide details on the implementation of GAIA's intervention in specific school settings to showcase our approach. Our findings, backed up by evaluation data and answers to a survey by 30 educators in Greece and Italy, confirm that the inclusion of competition and gamification aspects can significantly increase students' engagement, especially when having groups/schools competing with each other. Moreover, IoT-based educational activities can supplement existing educational activities in interesting ways, with students evaluating positively the experience and educators reporting increased overall student engagement in their class during the intervention period, and, on average, better class performance compared to previous periods.

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Using gamification and IoT-based educational tools towards energy savings - some experiences from two schools in Italy and Greece

Mylonas

Paganelli

Cuffaro³

et al. 2021

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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“…There are a few examples of IoT-driven educational activities performed with the additional objective of increasing students' awareness of societal challenges. Tziortzioti et al [22] designed and experimented data-driven educational scenarios for secondary schools to raise students' awareness of water pollution. Mylonas et al [18] proposed an educational lab kit and a set of educational scenarios primarily targeting primary schools for increasing energy awareness within the GAIA Project.…”

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Experiences from Using Gamification and IoT-Based Educational Tools in High Schools Towards Energy Savings

Paganelli

Mylonas

Cuffaro³

et al. 2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Raising awareness among young people, and especially students, on the relevance of behavior change for achieving energy savings is increasingly being considered as a key enabler towards long-term and cost-effective energy efficiency policies. However, the way to successfully apply educational interventions focused on such targets inside schools is still an open question. In this paper, we present our approach for enabling IoT-based energy savings and sustainability awareness lectures and promoting data-driven energy-saving behaviors focused on a high school audience. We present our experiences toward the successful application of sets of educational tools and software over a real-world Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. We discuss the use of gamification and competition as a very effective end-user engagement mechanism for school audiences. We also present the design of an IoT-based hands-on lab activity, integrated within a high school computer science curricula utilizing IoT devices and data produced inside the school building, along with the Node-RED platform. We describe the tools used, the organization of the educational activities and related goals. We report on the experience carried out in both directions in a high school in Italy and conclude by discussing the results in terms of achieved energy savings within an observation period.

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“…Radio transmissions, on the other hand, suffer from absorption and substantial signal attenuation, while optical communication suffers from severe scattering in UWEs. 13,14 In fact, these communication methods are fault-tolerant, scalable, and expensive, making them unsuitable for monitoring low-cost time-critical events in UWEs.…”

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Energy efficient routing in IOT based UWSN using bald eagle search algorithm

Kapileswar

Kumar

2021

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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The underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) faces many problems such as limited bandwidth, large path loss, high attenuation, and limited battery power. In recent times, different routing protocols have been proposed in the Internet of Things (IoT) enabled UWSN (IoT-UWSNs) to explore the underwater environment for different purposes, that is, scientific and military purposes.However, high energy consumption (EC), end to end (E2E) delay, low packet delivery ratio (PDR) and minimum network lifetime make the energy efficient communication a challenging task in UWSN. The high E2E delay, EC, and reliable data delivery are the critical issues, which play an important role to enhance the network throughput. For effective achievement of EC, proposed a new routing algorithm called bald eagle search (BES). It is a nature-inspired optimization algorithm that copied bald eagle hunting behavior. The proposed routing protocol includes three stages: initialization stage, construction stage, and the data transmission phase. The nodes identify the location and the sector during the initialization process. The construction phase includes two steps, neighbor node selection, and identification of energy efficient path. Then the last phase includes the transmission, in this the broadcasting node chooses the nodes with high residual energy (RE) in comparison to the average RE of the entire network. The proposed method is implemented in MATLAB. The outcomes of simulation confirm that the BES algorithm has better performance on EC, average RE, and network lifetime than the three existing algorithm in UWSN.

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Raising Awareness for Water Polution Based on Game Activities Using Internet of Things

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Using gamification and IoT-based educational tools towards energy savings - some experiences from two schools in Italy and Greece

Using gamification and IoT-based educational tools towards energy savings - some experiences from two schools in Italy and Greece

Experiences from Using Gamification and IoT-Based Educational Tools in High Schools Towards Energy Savings

Energy efficient routing in IOT based UWSN using bald eagle search algorithm

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