Sapientia: a Smart Campus model to promote device and application flexibility

The expansion of Internet-of-Things and Information and Communication Technology allows the application of intelligent concepts to university campus spaces. Several Smart Campus models were implemented recently. However, solutions that foster flexibility in the incorporation of new hardware and software solutions on the existing infrastructure are still a gap, motivating this research. Sapientia smart campus model promotes flexibility by facilitating the incorporation of new solutions on existing infrastructure. The model’s architecture is composed of layers that facilitate technology management and update. A university campus received a model implementation, allowing the execution of experiments to evaluate the incorporation of new hardware and applications. These included a mobile application to support user orientation and internal applications to collect and process campus information, such as temperature. The experiments show how the model incorporates a new hardware component and two new applications on the existing infrastructure. Also, it evidenced the use of the installed devices in more than one application with distinct configurations and purposes.