Modelling and Implementing Smart Universities: An IT Conceptual Framework

Autor: Francisco Maciá Pérez, José Vicente Berná Martínez, Iren Lorenzo Fonseca
Přispěvatelé: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Tecnología Informática y Computación, GrupoM. Redes y Middleware
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Computer science
Process (engineering)
Service provision model
020209 energy
Geography
Planning and Development
Population
TJ807-830
Enterprise architecture
smart campus
02 engineering and technology
IT architecture
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
IT conceptual framework
Smart city
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
GE1-350
education
Smart campus
Strategic planning
education.field_of_study
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
service provision model
Modular design
Environmental sciences
Engineering management
smart city
Work (electrical)
Conceptual framework
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
business
Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores
Zdroj: RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante (UA)
Sustainability
Volume 13
Issue 6
Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 3397, p 3397 (2021)
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su13063397
Popis: The smart city concept has been gaining momentum in the scientific community because of its potentially huge impact on citizens’ quality of life. However, expectations have not yet been met in practice. This is firstly due to the sheer breadth of such projects and secondly to the lack of methodologies available to guide the development of flexible and sustainable platforms over time. In this work, we propose to address these issues by using a university campus as a less complex mock-up version of a city. Despite differences between them, we find services that are common to both, and a medium-sized city’s population is comparable to that of a university community. We propose an IT conceptual framework to model and implement smart university projects, which supports the design of a platform that is both in line with the strategic plans of universities and is flexible, sustainable, stable, and sufficiently modular to support the addition of different value-added services over the years. Our framework is based on a service provision model materialised in an IT architecture and managed following a methodology to integrate IT components that ensure the insertion of new, smart initiatives of value to the community, aligned with the university’s needs, via a value-added service planning process. The results are presented in the University of Alicante case study and the SmartUA project. This work was supported by grant TIN2016-78103-C2-2-R and the University of Alicante (grant SmartUniversity2020).
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