Smart Campus® as a living lab on sustainability indicators monitoring

Negreiros, Iara; Francisco, Ana Carolina Camargo; Fengler, Felipe Hashimoto; Faria, Gustavo; Pinto, Luciana Gomes Pereira; Tolotto, Mauricio; Rogoschewski, Raquel Barbosa; Romano, Regiane Relva; Netto, Roberto S.

doi:10.1109/isc251055.2020.9239017

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“…The progress of a smart campus indicates similar progress in several sustainability indicators (Negreiros et al , 2020) which consequently leverages the achievement of the SDGs once a well-known relationship is found in the contribution of smart technologies to the construction of more sustainable university campuses (Némoz, 2015; Villegas-Ch et al , 2019; Kostepen et al , 2020; Adenle et al , 2021; Ceccarini et al , 2021). By contributing to lifelong learning practices (Mazutti et al , 2020) and collective learning (Némoz, 2015), campus safety (Ceccarini et al , 2021), energy efficiency (Negreiros et al , 2020), sustainable mobility (Torres-Sospedra et al , 2015) among others, smart practices on university campuses are closely connected to the SDGs as they are multidisciplinary and include many dimensions of campus life, especially regarding quality education (SDG 4), innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9) and sustainable cities (SDG 11).…”

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Smart practices in HEIs and the contribution to the SDGs: implementation in Brazilian university

Gasperina

Mazutti

Brandli

et al. 2021

IJSHE

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Purpose Smart campuses can be seen as the future of higher education efforts, especially for their contributions to sustainability and to encourage innovation. This paper aims to present the benefits of smart practices in a Higher Education Institutions and highlights its connections to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach The methodology is divided into three steps: first, an international search and assessment of smart practices at universities; second, the identification of smart practices in a university campus in southern Brazil; and third, the presentation of the benefits of smart practices and their relationship with the SDGs. Findings The results showed that globally, the area most covered by smart practices in universities is the environment and, specifically, focused on waste reduction. in the context of this case study, the benefits of implementing smart practices mainly reach SDGs 4 and SDG 9, especially due to aspects of teaching technologies for the new classroom models and the optimization of campus infrastructure management. Practical implications The study encourages other universities to implement smart practices in their campuses, to becoming smart campuses while they also collaborate in achieving the SDGs while raising the discussion on the importance of committed actions taken on a university campus with the UN SDGs, to leverage synergies on campus operations at universities. Originality/value This paper presents a set of smart practices that universities are applying both globally and locally (in southern Brazil). In addition, it contributes to sustainability research by showing how smart practices have the potential to promote SDGs in universities, especially through campus operations.

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Smart practices in HEIs and the contribution to the SDGs: implementation in Brazilian university

Gasperina

Mazutti

Brandli

et al. 2021

IJSHE

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“…In Brazil, there are numerical surveys on ISO 37120 indicators in Rio de Janeiro [54] and the city of Sorocaba [55], ISO 37122 in a university campus in Sorocaba [56,57], and ISO 37123 in a district of São Paulo [58]. The authors of [54] and [55] also make comparisons with other cities from the WCCD database.…”

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Application of Open Government Data to Sustainable City Indicators: A Megacity Case Study

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The access to open government data has been a relevant topic for societies around the world, especially over the last ten years. This paper aims to analyze the indicators of the São Paulo City Observatory (ObservaSampa), confronting them with the ISO 3712x series (sustainable, smart, and resilient cities) standards, to assess if the former meet both open data principles and the ISO prescriptions. Bibliometric analysis, comparative analysis, cluster analysis, and principal component analysis (PCA) were the methods used in this research. From the comparative analysis, 18 indicators were identified as conforming and 41 as partially conforming. Thus, 20% of the ObservaSampa indicators adhere to the ISO standards. The PCA applied to the conforming indicators shows component 1 is related to socioeconomic dimensions, while component 2 refers to social policy, with both appraisals confirmed by cluster analysis. Measuring and presenting city data in compliance with indicator standards is relevant because they open the possibility of comparing different cities. However, there is still a lack of consensus on a common set of indicators to be accommodated within the current ISO standards system.

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“…Developing smart campuses as a living lab for smart cities can be adopted in developing countries. In Brazil, Negreiros et al (2020) campus smart grid and energy management are expected to be expanded to the large urban environment. Cloud computing and digital asset management provides a foundation for developing smart transportation systems in cities (Abuarqoub et al, 2017;Negreiros et al, 2020).…”

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“…-Allah andAlrashed (2020) andOmotayo et al (2021) sketch the infrastructure required for a smart campus. However, Min-Allah and Alrashed (2020) andOmotayo et al (2021) did not include the living lab and smart resource management in their frameworks Negreiros et al (2020). noted that a smart campus could become a living lab for simulating how a smart city should look like.…”

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A Systems Thinking Model for Transitioning Smart Campuses to Cities

Omotayo

Awuzie

Ajayi

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Front. Built Environ.

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The contribution of smart campuses to smart cities’ development and vice versa has been elucidated in extant literature. The micro-transfer of smart technologies and probable procurement and contracting models remain critical for such contributions to take place. This study used a systems thinking approach to establish the interrelationships existing between smart campus technologies which can be scaled towards the development of smart cities and assess the critical failure factors negating the micro-transfer of these technologies to smart city development initiatives in developing countries. To achieve its objective, the study adopted a phenomenological research design wherein qualitative data was elicited from a purposively selected sample of seven interviewees in South African Universities. The next phase of the analysis involved a thematic approach for the production of a causal loop diagram (CLD) reflecting the interrelationships between the abovementioned facets and the associated impact on the transference of knowledge and technologies from smart campuses to smart cities. This CLD was subsequently validated by a cohort of five experts. Findings from the validation phase were incorporated in an improved CLD which provided different archetypes for engendering successful transference. This study holds salient implications for universities, cities and other stakeholders seeking to engage in a quadruple helix innovative arrangement for smart campus/city development. This study concluded that smart campuses could act as living labs for future smartness of cities globally. Government funding and willingness to produce smart cities from campuses is a fundamental feature of creating smart infrastructure in cities.

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Smart Campus® as a living lab on sustainability indicators monitoring

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Smart practices in HEIs and the contribution to the SDGs: implementation in Brazilian university

Smart practices in HEIs and the contribution to the SDGs: implementation in Brazilian university

Application of Open Government Data to Sustainable City Indicators: A Megacity Case Study

A Systems Thinking Model for Transitioning Smart Campuses to Cities

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