Internet of Things (IoT) and quality of higher education in Kenya; A literature review

African governments have declared the twenty-first century 'as a knowledge era'. Kenya in particular, education more so university education is expected to play an increasingly greater role in socio-economic development by training skilled manpower and producing and disseminating the knowledge required for a knowledge-driven economy. As such, this education—technology relationship has been spotlighted as part of education policy and practice. Complaints about falling education standards, unemployable students, redundant curricula and backward institutional organisation, have therefore been punctuated by the debates about the role and place of technologies in the classrooms. Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly growing network of a variety of different 'connected things.' Use of IoT in academics is a new wave of change that has brought new opportunities and possibilities for the improvement of both teaching/learning process and educational institutions' infrastructure. The study recommends that the enterprise architecture in the institutions of higher learning need to reduce latency time because of the demand for content in instructional technologies. There is need to develop new strategies that consider an individual's privacy, choices and expectations, whilst still promote innovation in new technologies and services. Higher education must come up with new ideas to finance an information technology infrastructure and services

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Smart Campus Framework: A Solution for New Normal Education System

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of human life and has even forced humans to shift their life habits, including in the world of education. The learning model must shift from the traditional to modern synchronous or asynchronous models with information technology-based applications. This condition is known as the New Normal era in the education system. Y Generation and Z Generation as educational objects are now very close to technology, especially information technology, including in the teaching and learning process, so there is no need for extra effort in this regard. Therefore, it is essential to create a learning environment under the characteristics of this generation and can also support the new normal era of the education system. We offer the concept of a smart campus framework that integrates an IT-based learning system and a hybrid smart classroom system as a modern education method in an educational scenario that promises to accelerate quality education without leaving a good learning process. This article designs the concept of a smart campus framework that will accommodate a learning model that will accelerate the improvement of the quality of education through smart learning solutions and smart blended learning systems. We also offer achievements in improving service performance through smart academic services solutions and accommodating the management of existing classroom resources through smart equipment system solutions. This framework is designed to automatically solve all university-level education system problems based on multimedia and integrated with websites and information systems used on campus

Proposta de uma Smart Classroom integrada com uma Fog Computing

utilização da Internet das Coisas (Internet of Things - IoT) temcrescido nos mais variados contextos, entre eles o educacional. Esse artigoapresenta o emprego da IoT em uma sala de aula inteligente, que propicie umecossistema facilitador de um processo de ensino-aprendizagem ubíquo e cientedo contexto. No desenvolvimento do ecossistema educacional observa-se quealguns problemas são acentuados, como utilização da banda de rede, tempo deresposta grande. Sendo assim, a contribuição desse trabalho é apresentar umaarquitetura que minimize esses problemas utilizando, para tanto, uma Fogadicionada a arquitetura de funcionamento da Smart Classroom. Com o intuitode validar a proposta dois cenários de aplicação são apresentados, uma SmartClassroom utilizando Fog e outra apenas utilizando Cloud. Nos dois casos épossível obter um tempo de resposta das comunicações do ambiente que utilizaFog 20% maior comparado com o que não utiliza. Tornando-se um ambientecom maior usabilidade dos atuadores envolvidos no processo

A Survey of Smart Classroom Literature

Recently, there has been a substantial amount of research on smart classrooms, encompassing a number of areas, including Information and Communication Technology, Machine Learning, Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Hardware. Smart classroom research has been quickly implemented to enhance education systems, resulting in higher engagement and empowerment of students, educators, and administrators. Despite decades of using emerging technology to improve teaching practices, critics often point out that methods miss adequate theoretical and technical foundations. As a result, there have been a number of conflicting reviews on different perspectives of smart classrooms. For a realistic smart classroom approach, a piecemeal implementation is insufficient. This survey contributes to the current literature by presenting a comprehensive analysis of various disciplines using a standard terminology and taxonomy. This multi-field study reveals new research possibilities and problems that must be tackled in order to integrate interdisciplinary works in a synergic manner. Our analysis shows that smart classroom is a rapidly developing research area that complements a number of emerging technologies. Moreover, this paper also describes the co-occurrence network of technological keywords using VOSviewer for an in-depth analysis

The Impacts of EdTech Collaboration, IoT-Connected Classroom and Intelligent Grading System on Educational Performance

The Edtech over decades has progressed, overcoming pressing issues such as network inefficiencies, digital literacy, and high infrastructure costs while making the education more engaging. The growth of computers and the increased availability of Internet connections have led to the development of a number of programs that promote collaborative writing via sharing, version tracking, and collaborative editing capabilities. Classrooms are being infused with new IoT in order to keep up with a rapidly connected world. The manual grading approach takes a long time. An automated grading system let students realize the level of the content they have provided fast. This study investigates the role of Edtech on the academic performance of students. We propose that Edtech increases the academic performance of students. To investigate the proposal, we reviewed three aspects of Edtech such as digital collaboration, an IoT-based classroom, and an Intelligent grading system. We discussed how these Edtech elements are transforming the educational infrastructure. Additionally, using multiple regression analysis, we showed that the availability of digital collaboration, IoT tools in the classroom, and an Intelligent grading system increases the student’s academic performance. While Edtech has great potential, only a small number of educational institutes have the resources to fully execute them. This study recommends that all educational institutions should have access to emerging Edtech tools for better academic performance

Embedded System Design

A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts with an introduction to the field and a survey of specification models and languages for embedded and cyber-physical systems. It provides a brief overview of hardware devices used for such systems and presents the essentials of system software for embedded systems, including real-time operating systems. The author also discusses evaluation and validation techniques for embedded systems and provides an overview of techniques for mapping applications to execution platforms, including multi-core platforms. Embedded systems have to operate under tight constraints and, hence, the book also contains a selected set of optimization techniques, including software optimization techniques. The book closes with a brief survey on testing. This fourth edition has been updated and revised to reflect new trends and technologies, such as the importance of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the Internet of things (IoT), the evolution of single-core processors to multi-core processors, and the increased importance of energy efficiency and thermal issues

Controle de frequências acadêmicas por meio de dispositivos beacons

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso, apresentado para obtenção do grau de Bacharel no Curso de Ciência da Computação da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, UNESC.O controle de frequência é um assunto delicado, já que ele está presente em organizações, instituições, empresas, entre outras, dessa maneira é concebível empregar tecnologias que visem automatizar esse processo que tende a ser duradouro. Este artigo tem como objetivo localizar os acadêmicos vigentes em uma sala de aula, por meio da trilateração 3D acoplada às tecnologias móveis. Para determinar as distâncias necessárias para implementação da trilateração foram utilizados dispositivos beacons emissores. Os resultados indicam que a aplicação dispõe uma boa precisão na determinação da posição em situações em que não há objetos entre os dispositivos emissores e receptores

Embedded System Design

A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts with an introduction to the field and a survey of specification models and languages for embedded and cyber-physical systems. It provides a brief overview of hardware devices used for such systems and presents the essentials of system software for embedded systems, including real-time operating systems. The author also discusses evaluation and validation techniques for embedded systems and provides an overview of techniques for mapping applications to execution platforms, including multi-core platforms. Embedded systems have to operate under tight constraints and, hence, the book also contains a selected set of optimization techniques, including software optimization techniques. The book closes with a brief survey on testing. This fourth edition has been updated and revised to reflect new trends and technologies, such as the importance of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the Internet of things (IoT), the evolution of single-core processors to multi-core processors, and the increased importance of energy efficiency and thermal issues