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The Campus as a Smart City: University of Málaga Environmental, Learning, and Research Approaches

For the past few years, the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a recurrent view of the technological environment where nearly every object is expected to be connected to the network. This infrastructure will progressively allow one to monitor and efficiently manage the environment. Unt...

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Autores principales: Fortes, Sergio, Santoyo-Ramón, José Antonio, Palacios, David, Baena, Eduardo, Mora-García, Rocío, Medina, Miguel, Mora, Patricia, Barco, Raquel
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6471123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30889886
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19061349
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author Fortes, Sergio
Santoyo-Ramón, José Antonio
Palacios, David
Baena, Eduardo
Mora-García, Rocío
Medina, Miguel
Mora, Patricia
Barco, Raquel
author_facet Fortes, Sergio
Santoyo-Ramón, José Antonio
Palacios, David
Baena, Eduardo
Mora-García, Rocío
Medina, Miguel
Mora, Patricia
Barco, Raquel
author_sort Fortes, Sergio
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description For the past few years, the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a recurrent view of the technological environment where nearly every object is expected to be connected to the network. This infrastructure will progressively allow one to monitor and efficiently manage the environment. Until recent years, the IoT applications have been constrained by the limited computational capacity and especially by efficient communications, but the emergence of new communication technologies allows us to overcome most of these issues. This situation paves the way for the fulfillment of the Smart-City concept, where the cities become a fully efficient, monitored, and managed environment able to sustain the increasing needs of its citizens and achieve environmental goals and challenges. However, many Smart-City approaches still require testing and study for their full development and adoption. To facilitate this, the university of Málaga made the commitment to investigate and innovate the concept of Smart-Campus. The goal is to transform university campuses into “small” smart cities able to support efficient management of their area as well as innovative educational and research activities, which would be key factors to the proper development of the smart-cities of the future. This paper presents the University of Málaga long-term commitment to the development of its Smart-Campus in the fields of its infrastructure, management, research support, and learning activities. In this way, the adopted IoT and telecommunication architecture is presented, detailing the schemes and initiatives defined for its use in learning activities. This approach is then assessed, establishing the principles for its general application.
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spelling pubmed-64711232019-04-26 The Campus as a Smart City: University of Málaga Environmental, Learning, and Research Approaches Fortes, Sergio Santoyo-Ramón, José Antonio Palacios, David Baena, Eduardo Mora-García, Rocío Medina, Miguel Mora, Patricia Barco, Raquel Sensors (Basel) Article For the past few years, the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a recurrent view of the technological environment where nearly every object is expected to be connected to the network. This infrastructure will progressively allow one to monitor and efficiently manage the environment. Until recent years, the IoT applications have been constrained by the limited computational capacity and especially by efficient communications, but the emergence of new communication technologies allows us to overcome most of these issues. This situation paves the way for the fulfillment of the Smart-City concept, where the cities become a fully efficient, monitored, and managed environment able to sustain the increasing needs of its citizens and achieve environmental goals and challenges. However, many Smart-City approaches still require testing and study for their full development and adoption. To facilitate this, the university of Málaga made the commitment to investigate and innovate the concept of Smart-Campus. The goal is to transform university campuses into “small” smart cities able to support efficient management of their area as well as innovative educational and research activities, which would be key factors to the proper development of the smart-cities of the future. This paper presents the University of Málaga long-term commitment to the development of its Smart-Campus in the fields of its infrastructure, management, research support, and learning activities. In this way, the adopted IoT and telecommunication architecture is presented, detailing the schemes and initiatives defined for its use in learning activities. This approach is then assessed, establishing the principles for its general application. MDPI 2019-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6471123/ /pubmed/30889886 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19061349 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The Campus as a Smart City: University of Málaga Environmental, Learning, and Research Approaches
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