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How does the University Know All About You? Smart Campuses

Updated: May 21, 2023 by Nishitha • 3 min read

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Smart campuses are known for their potential to boost everything – from students’ productivity to their academic achievements. They use beacon technology to collect info from students and places and analyze them very fast.

This information is then used for improving students’ performance on campus. Along with boosting students’ academic progress, universities are interested in sustaining their well-being. Their physical and mental health, as well as security measures, are of great importance to all educational institutions.

The integration of smart campuses that collect data on students’ behavior can provide significant support for their well-being as well.

Let’s find out in which ways smart campuses use the data collected from students.

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  • No One Goes Unnoticed
  • Applications Control Device Access
  • Beacons Help Those Who Are in Danger
  • Technology Knows When Someone Drinks Too Much
  • Technology Takes Care of Students’ Well-Being

No One Goes Unnoticed

On smart campuses, classrooms are equipped with beacons, and with the right app they are able to pick up the signals from the smartphones, smartwatches, and other similar devices of the students who attend classes.

This is how smart campuses can monitor the attendance of a particular student on a particular date and in a particular classroom. The tech helps to track student attendance in no time and on a fully automated basis.

Applications Control Device Access

Nowadays, e-books and educational applications sideline paper books. An increasing amount of students cannot imagine how to do their homework without their devices: while some use them to obtain professional writing services like Pro-Papers, others surf the Internet to gain more subject knowledge. It is up to them how to benefit from the tech.

There is no wonder that students tend to swap various educational materials to their devices and then use them during their classes. Since tablets, computers, and so forth may offer students lots of distractions, it is the instructors’ responsibility to eliminate the latter effectively. With the use of beacons, educators are able to restrict access to the students’ devices to the relevant apps only.

Beacons Help Those Who Are in Danger

It may sound strange but smart campuses know when someone is lost, troublous, and out on a limb. A range of applications is designed to work in connection with the university’s safety systems. Tracking those who are in danger, they send security alerts to campus police if someone doesn’t check in. If someone feels bad, this technology asks a police officer to escort him or her to a dorm.

Smart campuses are much safer places than those we knew a few years ago. When there is nobody in the streets, the lighting is dim. But when someone approaches or makes some noise, beacons send a command to a relevant system to switch on the light. There are many other apps taking care of students’ safety, and every campus uses them in its own way.

Technology Knows When Someone Drinks Too Much

There are many applications used for monitoring students’ drinking, taking into account their physical parameters such as weight, gender, etc. Except for monitoring, they also send notifications in case of unsafe alcohol consumption, calling a cab, or help to use public transport.

Probably, in the nearest future, legal-aged students will be able to drink in campus pubs with smart tech taking control over their behavior. In case of excessive drinking, these students will be alerted through the welfare services.

Technology Takes Care of Students’ Well-Being

While on campus, students shouldn’t be worried about their eating habits a lot as technology will do that for them. There is software that knows what a particular person has in a fridge and when it is time to dispose of expired foods.

Moreover, they teach them how to cook healthy meals and go shopping properly. Many apps are designed to maintain students’ mental health, improve their mood, and help to cope with anxiety as well.

Facial Recognition Apps Identify a Student’s Interest Level

Nowadays, many universities don’t miss the chance to equip their classrooms with webcams to be able to identify disinterested individuals or those who have a rough passage. This is how they can spot those who are at a high risk of dropping out in advance.

Facial recognition applications can recognize emotions that students experience at the moment and thus allow them to determine their interest level and identify their state of mind. Later, educators use these data to shape their teaching methods to suit every personality.

Universities Can Prevent Serious Health Disorders

If confidentiality is not an issue, students are often offered to wear trackers which are able to collect various types of data from them. While some trackers analyze these data to identify those struggling with sleeping disorders and suffering from lack of sleep.

Others can monitor students’ heart rates to give information about those coping with high-stress levels and other relevant issues and thus allow preventing serious health consequences. It is good for all of us to know that smart campuses know everything about their students and thus they are able to take care of them properly.

Except for monitoring their behavior and emotions and intervening if needed, smart campuses help to find effective solutions to the students’ unsafe alcohol consumption, bad eating, distracting device usage, truancy issues, health problems, etc.

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I am done with my Physiotherapy Graduation. And I always try to share Health and technology tips with people. Apart from Physiotherapy and being a tech savvy, I do explore more on Technology side and I keep sharing my findings with wider audience.

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